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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Apologies for the typos: The OpenSim team received the Duke’s Choice Award and released 3.1 this summer, not the OpenMM team.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Joy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#943634'>>> Simbios Research Highlight <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#548DD4'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#943634'>The Response of Bacterial Cell Growth to Osmotic Shock<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bacterial cell walls determine their susceptibility to antibiotics, their effect on the human immune system, and their shape. In a recent <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbtSmlgldPo&feature=c4-overview&list=UUsZ3QZBCvJOqxTbr_oqct-g">webinar</a>, Simbios postdoctoral fellow Enrique Rojas describes his experimental studies and computational models of the effects of osmotic pressure on the cell wall and growth of <i>Escherichia coli</i> and <i>Bacillus subtilis</i>.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#C0504D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#C0504D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#943634'>>> Simbios News<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#C0504D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#943634'><a href="http://www.oraclejavamagazine-digital.com/javamagazinestandalone/dukeschoice2013#pg1"><span style='color:#943634'>Open</span><span style='color:#953735;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#953735;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:windowtext'>Sim</span></span><span style='color:#943634'> Team Receives the Duke’s Choice Award</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>The Duke's Choice Awards from Oracle and the Java community honor organizations and developers for their creative and innovative uses of Java technology. Ayman Habib accepted the award on behalf of OpenSim team at the recent JavaOne conference, attended by 60,000 people in San Francisco.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#943634'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#943634'><a href="http://simtk.org/home/openmm"><span style='color:#943634'>OpenMM 5.2 Released</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>This latest version of our accelerated molecular dynamics code for GPUs includes new simulation features, such as Drude oscillators and anisotropic Monte Carlo barostats, and also adds support for Intel’s integrated GPU core.<i><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#943634'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#943634'><a href="http://simtk.org/home/opensim"><span style='color:#943634'>Open</span><span style='color:#953735;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#953735;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><span style='color:windowtext'>Sim</span></span><span style='color:#943634'> 3.1 Released</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>OpenSim 3.1 was released this summer and includes expanded scripting capabilities, enhancements to the graphical user interface, many new modeling components, new examples, and important bug fixes.<b><span style='color:#943634'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#943634'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:#943634'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#943634'>>> Upcoming Events and Opportunities <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#943634'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#943634'><a href="http://opensim.stanford.edu/support/event_details.html?id=81&title=Miniature-Implants-for-Hand-Tendon-Transfer-Surgery-A-Simulation-and-Experiment-Based-Study"><span style='color:#943634'>Webinar: Using Simulations and Experiments to Design a New Tendon-Transfer Surgery</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Learn the role of simulations and experiments in the design of miniature implants for hand tendon-transfer surgery <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>TOMORROW - October 17, 2013 at 9:30am PDT<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#943634'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#943634'><a href="http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/Mod4Sim14"><span style='color:#943634'>Workshop on Model-driven Approaches for Simulation Engineering</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Part of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>April 13-16, 2014 in Tampa, Florida<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>Paper Deadline: November 1, 2013<o:p></o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><o:p> </o:p></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="http://simbios.stanford.edu/">Simbios</a> is the NIH-funded center on physics-based simulations of biological structures, supported through grant U54 GM072970 as part of the <a href="http://ncbcs.org/">National Centers for Biomedical Computing</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#595959'>---<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#595959'>Joy P. Ku, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#595959'>Director, </span><a href="http://simbios.stanford.edu/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Simbios</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#595959'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#595959'>Director of Communications & Training, </span><a href="http://opensim.stanford.edu/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>NCSRR</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#595959'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#595959'>Stanford University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#595959'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#595959'>(w) 650.736.8434, (f) 650.723.7461<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#595959'>Email: </span><a href="mailto:joyku@stanford.edu"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>joyku@stanford.edu</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:#595959'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>