Shane Fiorenza

Research/Teaching Assistant

Physics

CyLaKS

Research

I am a fifth-year graduate student in the physics department at CU Boulder. My research explores the physical mechanisms responsible for the self-assembly and length regulation of biological matter via a computer simulation. To this end, I developed the Cytoskeleton Lattice-based Kinetic Simulator (CyLaKS). CyLaKS is a C/C++ kinetic Monte Carlo-Brownian Dynamics (kMC-BD) simulation framework designed to fill the large gap between atomistic simulations and coarse-grained cytoskeletal frameworks, which focus on larger-scale assemblies. I currently use CyLaKS to study long-range coupling between molecular motors.