Presenter Simon Dürr, Ecole Polytechnique Federale der Lausanne (EPFL) Simon Dürr is a PhD student at Ecole Polytechnique Federale der Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. He works on methods to improve protein engineering of metalloproteins using deep learning and molecular modeling. He is also known for his work improving accessibility of machine learning models via easy… Continue reading Simon Dürr | Designing stable Metalloproteins using Deep Learning
Presenter Shuntaro Amano Shuntaro Amano is a postdoc working with Prof. Thomas Hermans at the University of Strasbourg. He undertook his master study and PhD in the group of Prof. David Leigh FRS at the University of Manchester. There, he worked on synthetic molecular ratchets and their theoretical analyses, achieving world-leading publications in high impact… Continue reading Shuntaro Amano | Synthesis and Analysis of Autonomous Molecular Motors
Presenter Hendrik Dietz, Technical University of Munich Hendrik Dietz is a full professor of physics at the School of Natural Sciences of Technical University of Munich. Dietz research interests are on building ultra-miniaturized molecular devices and machines capable of accomplishing user-defined tasks. In this context, Dietz has made important contributions regarding the complexity, functionality, and… Continue reading Hendrik Dietz | Virus Traps and Other Molecular Machines of the Future
Presenter Stephane Redon Stephane Redon is the former head of the NANO-D research group at the INRIA Grenoble – Rhone-Alpes Research Center, that he started in January 2008 and led until October 2018, when he left to start OneAngstrom, a spin-off of Inria that commercializes the SAMSON open platform for molecular modeling. He graduated from… Continue reading Stephane Redon | Recent Developments in Integrated Molecular Design
Presenter Aleksei Aksimentiev Dr. Aksimentiev has a background in soft matter physics and now deploys computational methods to investigate physical phenomena at the interface of solid-state nanodevices and biological macromolecules. In his graduate work, he applied methods of field theory to predict phase diagrams of polymer mixtures, focusing on the conformational properties of single macromolecules.… Continue reading Aleksei Aksimentiev | DNA Electromotors
Presenter Abhishek Singharoy, Arizona State University Abhishek Singharoy is an Assistant Professor in the School of Molecular Sciences at Arizona State University. His research is at the confluence of statistical mechanics, molecular biology, hybrid modeling and large-scale computer simulations. The unified theme of Singharoy laboratory’s research is to combine rigorous statistical mechanical methodologies with state-of-the-art… Continue reading A. Singharoy | Molecular and Brownian Dynamics Simulations of Rotatory Catalysis in Molecular Motors
