18.01.2022: Virtual seminar series “AlphaFold at Vanderbilt.”

/ December 22, 2021/ Events, Students

The Vanderbilt Center for Structural Biology, the Program in Personalized Structural Biology, and the Program in the Molecular Basis of Genetic Diseases will be holding a series of seminars to introduce AlphaFold.  These talks will be held on Tuesday January 18, 2022, from 4:00 p.m. CEST (Leipzig time) via Zoom.

Speakers
Jens Meiler, PhD (Chemistry)
Hassane S. Mchaourab, PhD (Molecular Physiology & Biophysics)
David Rinker, PhD (Chemistry)
Jarrod Smith, PhD (Biochemistry)
Rich Stein, PhD (Molecular Physiology & Biophysics)
Taylor Jones (Chemical and Physical Biology Program)
Diego Del Alamo (Chemical and Physical Biology Program)

Topics
+ Ramifications and impact of AlphaFold on biomedical sciences
+ AlphaFold and the diagnosis of genetic disorders
+ Applications of AlphaFold to personalized medicine
+ AlphaFold and AlphaFold-Multimer
+ Running AlphaFold: process and challenges
+ How to install and run AlphaFold at Vanderbilt
+ Interpreting and evaluating AlphaFold outputs

This series of talks and tutorials will highlight the research potential of AlphaFold, and will provide information about running AlphaFold on Vanderbilt computing resources.

You are welcome to participate in this seminar series.