These are images produced by the current and former members of the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group. Select a category, or see all images below.
Viruses -- Photosynthesis-Related Systems -- Proteins Interacting With Lipids -- Channels and Transporters -- Ribosome-related Systems -- Motor Proteins -- Muscle Proteins -- Lipids -- Inorganic Systems -- DNA/RNA Interacting Proteins -- Other
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Atomic model of the immature retroviral lattice of Rous Sarcoma Virus - Boon Chong Goh, 2014 (request)
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HIV Virion - Thomas Splettstoesser, 2014 (request)
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Lentiviral Capsid Prairie - Juan Perilla, 2014 (request)
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Ribosome in Violet - Rezvan Shahoei, 2014 (request)
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HIV Capsid - Juan Perilla, 2014 (request)
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Maturation of Nudaurelia capensis omega Virus Capsid - Boon Chong Goh, 2014 (request)
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Poliovirus-Receptor Complex - Ross Bodnar, 2014 (request)
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Ribosome Decoding the Genetic Message - Eduard Schreiner (request)
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Ribosomes - Kwok Yan Chan, 2014 (request)
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RNA Exosome Under Water - Lela Vukovic, 2014 (request)
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phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase - Yanxin Liu and Hang Yu, 2014 (request)
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Tower of Babel in Neuron - Synaptotagmin - Zhe Wu, 2014 (request)
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Chromatophore in Stained Glass - Melih Sener, 2014 (request)
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Quantum Snowflakes: Orbitals in the bc1 Complex - Angela Barragan, 2014 (request)
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bc1 Complex - Angela Barragan and Ilia Solov'yov, 2014 (request)
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Chromatophore from Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria - Melih Sener, 2014 (request)
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Springtime Polymers - Joao Ribeiro, 2014 (request)
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Roadmap For Protein Folding - Wei Han, 2014 (request)
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: the Proteasome - Till Rudack, 2014 (request)
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Cellulosome Forest - Rafael Bernardi, 2014 (request)
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Amyloid Plaque from Alzheimer’s Brain - Wei Han, 2014 (request)
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Chemotactic Sensory Array - Keith Cassidy, 2014 (request)
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Biofuels polymer - Joao Ribeiro, 2014 (request)
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Structure of Fibril Formed by Amyloid-beta Proteins - Wei Han, 2014 (request)
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Cellulosomes - Rafael Bernardi, 2014 (request)
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Bacterial Chemoreceptor Array from Thermotoga maritima - Keith Cassidy, 2014 (request)
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Electron Transfer in Cryptochrome - Ilia Solov'yov, 2014 (request)
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Ions Diffusing Through a Discretized MscS - Ivan Teo, 2014 (request)
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Hexameric Helicases Loading Onto mRNA - Wen Ma(request)
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Hexameric Helicase - Wen Ma, 2014 (request)
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Membrane capturing coagulation protein domain - Taras V. Pogorelov, Y. Zenmei Ohkubo, 2014 (request)
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Poliovirus - Ross Bodnar, 2013 (request)
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HIV-1 capsid 'in vitro' and 'in silico' - Juan R. Perilla, Gongpu Zhao, Angela Gronenborn and Peijun Zhang, 2013 (request)
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Rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus capsid - Yanxin Liu, 2013 (request)
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HIV Capsid - Juan Perilla, 2013 (request)
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HIV capsid in glass envelope - Juan Perilla, 2013 (request)
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HIV capsid in glass envelope - Juan Perilla, 2013 (request)
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Antibiotics and bacterial ribosome - Kwok-Yan Chan, 2013 (request)
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Nascent peptide chain diffusion around SecY channel - Ivan Teo, 2013 (request)
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Protein binding to methylated DNA - Ilia Solov'yov and Chris Chipot, 2013 (request)
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Formation of end-to-end DNA filaments - Christopher Maffeo, 2013 (request)
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Membrane Tubulation - Hang Yu, 2013 (request)
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Photosynthetic Chromatophore - Melih Sener, 2013 (request)
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Photosynthetic Chromatophore - Melih Sener, 2013 (request)
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Artistic visualization of analyzing a protein with the Timeline plugin - Barry Isralewitz, 2013 (request)
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Magnetoreceptor protein cryptochrome - Ilia Solov'yov, 2013 (request)
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Multiple folding pathways of protein - Wei Han, 2013 (request)
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Lung surfactant protein, an influenza virus inhibitor - Boon Chong Goh, 2013 (request)
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Lung surfactant protein fights influenza A virus - Xueqing Zou, 2013 (request)
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Hexameric Helicase - Wen Ma, 2013 (request)
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Membrane capturing coagulation protein domain - Taras V. Pogorelov, Y. Zenmei Ohkubo, 2013 (request)
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DNA binds to single-walled nanotube - Xueqing Zou, 2013 (request)
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Atomic model of kinase sensor - Eduardo Cruz-Chu, 2013 (request)
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Cylindrical HIV capsid protein assembly - Juan Perilla, 2012 (request)
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Mechanosensitive channel of small conductance (MscS) - Ramya Gamini and Chris Chipot, 2012 (request)
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Creation of a Nascent Membrane Protein by the Ribosome - Bo Liu, 2012 (request)
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DNA Methylation - Xueqing Zou, Philip Severin, 2012 (request)
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SNARE-Mediated Membrane Fusion - Andrew Blanchard, 2012 (request)
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Chromatophore from Purple Photosynthetic Bacteria - Johan Strumpfer, Melih Sener, 2012 (request)
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The pigment-protein complexes of purple bacteria - LH1-RC and LH2s - Johan Strumpfer, 2012 (request)
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LH1 monomer surrounded by LH2s (request)
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Folding of λ-repressor - Yanxin Liu, 2012 (request)
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Integrin αIIbβ3 Ectodomains in Bent Conformation - Keith Cassidy, 2012 (request)
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Vision-based Avian Magnetoreception - Ilia A. Solov'yov, 2012 (request)
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Symmetric Chaperone Mm-cpn - Kwok-Yan Chan, 2012 (request)
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Ternary bilayer composed of 45% POPC, 35% POPS, and 20% POPE randomly distributed in both leaflets - Marc Arcario (request)
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Micelle composed entirely of lyso-PC - Marc Arcario (request)
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A 10 nm vesicle composed of randomly distributed POPC and POPS lipids - Marc Arcario (request)
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DNA Translocation Through Graphene Nanopores - Chaitanya Sathe, Xueqing Zou, 2012 (request)
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Determining of the mechanical stability of methylated DNA by molecular force assay measurements - Xueqing Zou, 2012 (request)
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DNA translocating through a graphene nanopore - Chaitanya Sathe, 2012 (request)
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Satellite Tobacco Mosaic Virus - John Stone, 2011 (request)
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Satellite Tobacco Mosaic Virus - Johan Strumpfer, 2011 (request)
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Electrostatic Potential of a Voltage-gated Potassium Channel - Fatemeh Khalili, 2011 (request)
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Mechanosensitive channel of small conductance I - Ramya Gamini, 2011 (request)
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Ribosome Decoding the Genetic Message - Eduard Schreiner, 2011 (request)
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Creation of a Nascent Membrane Protein - James Gumbart, 2011 (request)
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High Density Lipoprotein Transporting Cholesterol - Amy Shih, 2011 (request)
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Chromatophore Vesicle in Purple Bacteria - Melih Sener, 2011 (request)
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The Fenna-Matthews-Olson Trimer - Johan Strumpfer, 2011 (request)
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GPIbα-VWF Complex - Xueqing Zou and Yanxin Liu, 2011 (request)
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The Molecular Rubber Band in Muscle - Jen Hsin and Eric Lee, 2011 (request)
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Helicase representation produced by the molecular dynamics flexible fitting method - Chris Harrison, 2011 (request)
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Molecular Motor Protein Myosin VI - Jen Hsin and Yanxin Liu, 2011 (request)
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Full structure of satellite tobacco mosaic virus, complete with protein, RNA, ions, and a small water box - Anton Arkhipov and Peter Freddolino, 2009 (request)
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Voltage-gated Potassium Channel - Fatemeh Khalili-Araghi, 2009 (request)
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Lactose permease (LacY) Conducting Sugar - Ying Yin, 2009 (request)
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The ribosome binds to SecY in the membrane preceding protein translocation - James Gumbart, 2009 (request)
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All-atom model of the T. thermophilus ribosome - Leonardo Trabuco, 2009 (request)
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Capture of a large molecular machine by a small channel - James Gumbart, 2009 (request)
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Anticodon-codon binding opens a gate in EF-Tu (request)
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Sculpting of Cellular Membrane by BAR Proteins - Ying Yin and Anton Arkhipov, 2009 (request)
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Lipoprotein Assembly - Amy Shih, 2009 (request)
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Double-belt model discoidal high-density lipoproteins which can be used as platforms for embedding membrane proteins - Amy Shih, 2009 (request)
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Mature spherical HDL circulates in the blood collecting cholesterol - Amy Shih, 2009 (request)
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Chromatophore Capturing Sunlight - Melih Sener, Chris Harrison, and Jen Hsin, 2009 (request)
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Tube of Light Harvesting Protein - Jen Hsin and Melih Sener (background photo courtesy of Sias van Schalkwyk), 2009 (request)
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LH2 Proteins Induce Membrane Curvature - Danielle Chandler, 2009 (request)
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Fibrinogen, the Protein Building Block of a Blood Clot - Eric Lee, 2009 (request)
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Molecular Orbital of C60 Fullerene - Jan Saam (request)
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All-atom model of the polivirus capsid with 60 receptors bound to the capsid (request)
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Gas Molecules Commute Into Cell - Jordi Cohen, 2007 (request)
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Multiple BAR domains work collectively to produce global membrane curvature - Ying Yin and Anton Arkhipov, 2007 (request)
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All-atom vs coarse-grained model of a high-density lipoprotein - Amy Shih, 2007 (request)
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Molecular Sushi Roll - Amy Shih, 2007 (request)
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Mopping Up Lipids in the Blood: Assembly of discoidal HDL - Amy Shih, 2007 (request)
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Modeling of the GB1 protein in its crystallopgraphically resolved symmetry, 2007 (request)
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Crystal structure of the RNA from satellite tobacco mosaic virus, with an artificial nucleic acid sequence. Adenine residues are shown in yellow, and uracil in red (request)
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Lactose permease (LacY) is an integral membrane protein that uses the cell membrane's proton gradient for import of lactose - Ying Yin, 2006 (request)
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The open (yellow) and closed (green) state of the water channel SoPIP2;1 in spinach - Yi Wang, 2006 (request)
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Estrogen receptor dimer - DNA complex, 2006 (request)
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Holliday junction and endonuclease - Jin Yu, 2006 (request)
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High density lipoprotein - Jim Phillips, 2006 (request)
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Bacteriorhodopsin (bR) and the purple membrane - Emad Tajkhorshid, 2006 (request)
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Molecular view of the Light, Oxygen, and Voltage domain of C. reinhardtii - Markus Dittrich, 2006 (request)
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Titin Z1Z2-Telethonin Complex - Eric Lee, 2006 (request)
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A prototype molecular motor translocating along ssDNA: PcrA helicase in complex with DNA and ATP - Jin Yu, 2006 (request)
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Nano-meter size pore drilled into a metal oxide superconductor membrane - Eduardo Cruz-Chu, 2006 (request)
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Ionic conduction through amorphous nano-meter size silica pore - Eduardo Cruz-Chu, 2006 (request)
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Conformational model of the Holliday junction transition deduced from molecular dynamics simulations - Jin Yu, 2005 (request)
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Aquaporin - Emad Tajkhorshid, 2004 (request)
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Aquaporin - Emad Tajkhorshid, 2004 (request)
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Lac Repressor Binding to DNA - Elizabeth Villa, 2004 (request)
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Lac Repressor Binding to DNA - Elizabeth Villa, 2004 (request)
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Lac Repressor Binding to DNA - Elizabeth Villa, 2004 (request)
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Lac Repressor Binding to DNA - Elizabeth Villa, 2004 (request)
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Trimeric cyanobacterial photosystem I - Melih Sener, 2004 (request)
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Trimeric cyanobacterial photosystem I - Melih Sener, 2004 (request)
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Single-file line of water molecules as they progress through the aquaporin channel - Emad Tajkhorshid, 2002 (request)
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Excitation transfer in the bacterial photosynthetic unit - Xiche Hu, 1998 (request)
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Arrangement of pigment-protein complexes in the modeled bacterial PSU of Rb. sphaeroides - Xiche Hu, 1998 (request)