In collaboration with researchers at ORNL, Gabriel Fuente (grad student in the lab of Liz Howell) and Jeremy Smith published an article in the journal Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics entitled Effects of carotenoids on lipid bilayers. First author on this article is former GST doctoral student Quentin Johnson. In this research they used molecular dynamics simulations to determine the effects of different carotenoids on the physical properties of lipid membranes.