Blake Gillespie is an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at CSU-Channel Islands. In addition to studying protein folding and stability in several model systems, he is currently developing CSUCI's x-ray crystallographic and high field NMR instrumentation as a regional center for structural biology research. He uses a molecular structure-based approach at all levels of his chemistry and biochemistry curricula.
David Goodsell is an Associate Professor at the Scripps Research Institute's Department of Molecular Biology. He characterizes biomolecular structure-function relationships using computer simulations to develop models for protein-drug interactions and fold-prediction. He is also a celebrated artist who uses his talent as a mechanism for educational outreach, authoring the “Molecule of the Month” feature on the Protein Data Bank website.
Kalju Kahn obtained his Diploma and Masters Degree in chemistry from the University of Tartu in Estonia. He then joined Tipton’s group at the University of Missouri-Columbia working on the mechanism of catalytic urate oxidase. Dr. Kahn joined the T. C. Bruice lab at UCSB in 1998 and continues working in the Chemistry Department as a Lecturer developing and teaching courses in biochemistry, computational chemistry and drug design.
Katherine Kantardjieff is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at CSU-Fullerton and a distinguished x-ray crystallographer. She combines structure-determination tools, homology modeling/docking simulations, and bioinformatics methods to explore important problems in protein interactions and drug design. She is dedicated to development of molecular structure’s role in modern biochemistry pedagogy.
Shantanu Sharma is currently an Assistant Professor of Physical Chemistry
and a PI at the Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Materials Design
(CM3D) at Cal Poly Pomona. He earned his PhD in Biophysical Chemistry with
Goddard at Caltech, and is active in developing the areas of:
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