Gregory Dignon

Dr. Gregory Dignon joined Rutgers as an assistant professor after completing his postdoctoral fellowship at Stony Brook University in the group of Ken Dill, Directory of the Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology. His research is tasked with understanding biomolecular interactions for the purpose of designing new and novel biotechnology. Toward this goal, his lab utilizes computational techniques, such as molecular dynamics simulations, and statistical mechanics. Dr. Dignon received his Ph.D. from Lehigh University under the supervision of Prof. Jeetain Mittal, and his bachelor's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he conducted research supervised by Prof. Peter Tessier.

•    Peer Review for manuscripts submitted to Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Physical Chemistry B, Communications Biology, and assisted with reviews for Physical Review Letters.
•    CASP14 Blind Prediction Challenge: participated with Dill lab using MELD x MD accelerator for molecular simulations to predict protein structures from their amino acid sequences.
•    PLoS Computational Biology Research Prize for Exemplary Methods/Software awarded to ”Sequence determinants of protein phase behavior from a coarse-grained model”.
•    John C. Chen Endowed Fellowship from the Chemical Engineering department at Lehigh University for merits in academic achievement and leadership, 2018-2019 academic year.
•    1st Place Best Student Talk: Midwest Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (MTSM) Conference, 2018, Pittsburgh, PA.
•    Awarded travel grant for EMBL Symposium: Cellular Mechanisms Driven by Liquid Phase Separation, 2018, Heidelberg, Germany.
•    Chevron Scholars Award in Chemical Engineering awarded a travel grant for the AIChE Annual meeting, 2017, and 5 years of membership to AIChE.
•    Telluride School on Theoretical Chemistry summer school program Telluride Science Research Center, Telluride, CO, July 24-28, 2017, funded by TSTC Endowment Fund.
•    American Institute of Chemical Engineers(AIChE) member, 2015-present
•    American Chemical Society(ACS) member, 2016-present
•    Biophysical Society(BPS) member, 2016-present
•    American Physical Society(APS) member, 2018-present
 

•    2022 – Present: Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
•    2019 – 2022: Postdoc, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, Stony Brook, NY
 

•    Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 2019
•    B.S., Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 2015
•    A.S., Engineering Science, Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, NY 2013