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Hey there! I’m Blake, a skilled computational research scientist with a penchant for tea.

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Recent Work

Academic Publications/Preprints

  1. Journal Article: (2024) Hejian Xiong*, Blake A. Wilson*, Xiaoqian Ge*, Xiaofei Gao, Qi Cai, Xueqi Xu, Robert Bachoo, and Zhenpeng Qin, Glioblastoma Margin as a Diffusion Barrier Revealed by Photoactivation of Plasmonic Nanovesicles, Nano Lett. 24 (5), 1570-1578. (*=co-first authors) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.3c04101
  2. Preprint: (2023) Chen Xie, Blake Wilson, and Zhenpeng Qin, Regulating nanoscale heat transfer with Janus nanopartilces, arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.17270
  3. Perspective: (2023) Hejian Xiong, Blake A. Wilson, Paul A. Slesinger, Zhenpeng Qin, Optical uncaging and release for understanding neuropeptide transmission in the brain, ACS Chem. Neurosci., 14, 4, 516-523. (Special Issue on ‘Monitoring Molecules in Neuroscience 2023’) https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.2c00684
  4. Journal Article: (2023) Xiaoqing Li, Qi Cai, Blake A. Wilson, Hanwen Fan, Harsh Dave, Monica Giannotta, Robert Bachoo, and Zhenpeng Qin, Calcium-Mediated Modulation of Blood-Brain Barrier Permeability by Laser Stimulation of Endothelial-Targeted Nanoparticles, Nanoscale, 15, 3387-3397. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2NR05062E

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Latest Blog Posts

(11/12/2023) Harnessing the speed of Julia in Python with PyJulia: A case study in the Monte Carlo estimation of Pi

(10/23/2023) Modeling Drug Dynamics using Programmatic PK/PD Models in Python: An Introduction to PK/PD Modeling using PySB and pysb-pkpd

Upcoming conferences

  • None at this time.

Recent conferences

  • TACCSTER (in-person), Sept. 2022
    • Poster #4: “Atomistic simulations provide mechanistic insight into heat transfer across nanoscale interfaces between gold and water”
  • WCB 2022 (virtual), July 2022
    • Poster (Abstract 14603: “Quantitative analysis of PAR2 signaling by receptor photoinactivation with molecular hyperthermia”
  • SB3C 2022 (in-person), June 2022
    • Poster (Abstract 426): “Mathematical Modeling Of PAR2 Signaling And Receptor Photoinactivation With Molecular Hyperthermia