Fareeda E. Abu-Juam

PhD student in Computational Biology at the CMU–Pitt Joint Program.

I am co-advised by Mert Gur and David R. Koes. My research focuses on screening for protein–protein interactions, large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of nanobodies and MAPs, and machine learning. Before starting my PhD, I worked with Dr. Erzsebet Regan at the College of Wooster where I completed my Independent Study on EMT in Cancer.

GitHub Google Scholar LinkedIn Email: fea54 [at] pitt [dot] edu

Publications

Publications and preprints from my ORCID record, listed newest first.

• From Attraction to Repulsion: Omicron-Driven Rewiring of Nanobody Interfaces on the SARS-CoV-2 RBD

  2025 · Preprint

Conferences

• Mar 2026 — ACS (Poster): Covariance-based MD Analysis Pinpoints Nanobody Attraction and Repulsion Sites
• Feb 2026 — Biophysical Society (Poster): Covariance-based MD Analysis Pinpoints Nanobody Attraction and Repulsion Sites

Awards

Fellowships & Awards

• 2025 — Association for Computing Machinery SIGHPC Fellowship (Society)

Timeline

2024–present

CMU–Pitt Joint Program · Computational Biology

PhD in Computational Biology

• Mar. 2026
  American Chemical Society (ACS)

  Selected for Sci-Mix Poster Session
• Feb. 2026
  Biophysical Society — Poster

  Omicron RBD–nanobody MD + covariance analysis.
• Nov. 2025
  SC25 — Project

  Received ACM SIGHPC Fellowship Award.

2020–2024

The College of Wooster

BA in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

• Summer 2023
  MIT

  Summer research with Joey Davis
• Summer 2022
  Rockefeller University

  Summer research with Hermann Steller
• Summer 2021
  College of Wooster

  Summer research with Erzsebet Regan