Christopher Lockhart

Christopher Lockhart is a Research Assistant Professor at the School of Systems Biology, George Mason University. His work focuses on computational methods for studying biomolecules, particularly Alzheimer's-related Aβ peptides and their interactions with lipid bilayers.

• Education: PhD in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (George Mason University, 2015), BS in Biological Sciences and Psychology (Virginia Tech, 2010).

Research Interests include molecular dynamics simulations, amyloid-beta peptides, bioinformatics, proteomics, and computational modeling of protein-membrane interactions.

Publications highlight studies on force fields for Aβ binding, methionine oxidation effects, and anionic lipid bilayer interactions. His work has been cited 56 times.

Teaching covers courses like Computing for Scientists, Modeling and Simulation I, and Machine Learning for Bioinformatics.