The Luthey-Schulten group is a computational chemistry group working within the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Headed by Zaida (Zan) Luthey-Schulten, the current research is focused on:

• Modeling a Minimal Cell
• Cell Simulation Software: Lattice Microbes
• Energy Metabolisms in Cells
• Combining Metabolic Genetic Information Process
• Ribosome Biogenesis in Whole Cells
• Protein Guided RNA Dynamics in Ribosome Assembly
• Bistability in Bacterial and Yeast Genetic Switch
• Modeling Heterogeneity in Bacterial Colonies