Presenter Dr. Lurong Pan Dr. Lurong Pan, CEO and founder of Ainnocence, possesses over 15 years of expertise in computational drug design. Her educational background includes an applied chemistry degree from Nanjing University, a master’s in artificial intelligence from Georgia Tech, a PhD in computational chemistry with postdoctoral research in structural biology from the University… Continue reading Dr. Lurong Pan | Protein LLM and Generative AI in Protein Engineering
Presenter Dr. Chengde Mao Dr. Chengde Mao is interested in construction of nanometer-scale architectures through programmed DNA/RNA self-assembly. The overall goal is to prepare nanostructures with moderate complexity for applications in electronics, photonics, and biomedical studies. Summary: In programmed DNA self-assembly, being simple refers to two different aspects: i) Simple structures. Many DNA nanostructures can… Continue reading Dr. Chengde Mao | The Simple Side of DNA Self-assembly
Presenter Brenda Rubenstein Dr. Brenda Rubenstein is currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics at Brown University. While much of her group works on electronic structure theory, computational biophysics, and quantum computing, she is also deeply engaged in rethinking computing architectures. Prior to arriving at Brown, she was a Lawrence Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow at… Continue reading Brenda Rubenstein | Storage and Computation Using Small Molecules and Their Reaction Networks
Presenter Boris Fain Boris Fain started his scientific career by writing the equations that governed the shapes of DNA. He then worked with Michael Levitt to bring the methods of Physics and Mathematics into computational biology, where and his colleagues, using knot theory, designed the very first fingerprint of protein structure. Following that he led… Continue reading Boris Fain | Predictive Molecular Simulation
Presenter Emanuele Penocchio Emanuele Penocchio is a postdoc in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University. After studying chemistry, he obtained a Ph.D. in Physics in 2022, with a thesis on the non-equilibrium thermodynamics of chemical reaction networks. His research focuses on the physical chemistry underlying chemical systems that consume energy to perform functions. Emanuele… Continue reading E. Penocchio | Probing Supramolecular Interactions In Molecular Machinery With Numerical Simulations
Presenter Charlie McTernan Charlie McTernan is a physical sciences group leader at the Francis Crick Institute in London, and a lecturer at the Department of Chemistry at King’s College London. He is a supramolecular chemist, investigating how artificial molecular machines and metal-organic capsules can be applied in biomedical science. A group of scientists, entrepreneurs, and… Continue reading Charlie McTernan | Building From Biology – Peptides as Building Blocks in Supramolecular Chemistry
Presenter Fan Hong Fan Hong is interested in developing biomolecular tools to dive into the complexity of biology (decoding and regulating cellular functions on the molecular basis at the tissue scale). Before joining the faculty at the University of Florida, Fan was a Postdoc Fellow at Wyss Institute at Harvard University where he worked on… Continue reading Fan Hong | Programmable Nucleic Acid Tools to Visualize and Regulate Gene Expression
