JCIMinar: Molecular Simulations

JCIMinar: Molecular Simulations

in the Time of COVID19 and Beyond

Wednesday, December 16th, 2020

11:00am EDT | 10:00am CDT | 9:00am MDT | 8:00am PDT

Dr. Rommie Amaro will discuss her lab’s work on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and ACE2 receptor, as well as discuss how the pandemic is providing a new paradigm for sharing of data, global collaboration, and the role of high performance computing in the fight against the disease.

Who you'll hear from:

Professor Kenneth M. Merz, Jr

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling

Director, Institute for Cyber Enabled Research (iCER)

Biography

Professor Rommie Amaro

Endowed Chair, Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego

Department Vice Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UC San Diego

Biography

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Merz Jr . is an American biochemist and molecular biologist currently Director, Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research and the Joseph Zichis Chair at Michigan State University and Editor-in-Chief of American Chemical Society's Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling.

Professor Rommie E. Amaro holds the Distinguished Professorship in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering (1999) and her Ph.D. in Chemistry (2005) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rommie was a NIH postdoctoral fellow with Prof. J. Andrew McCammon at UC San Diego from 2005-2009, and started her independent lab in 2009. She is the recipient of an NIH New Innovator Award, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the ACS COMP OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, the ACS Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry, and the Corwin Hansch Award. Rommie’s scientific interests lie at the intersection of computer-aided drug discovery and biophysical simulation. Her scientific vision revolves around expanding the range and complexity of molecular constituents represented in such simulations, the development of novel multiscale methods for elucidating their time dependent dynamics, and the discovery of novel chemical matter controlling biological function.