BMERC Seminar: Protein modeling, SNPs, and computational drug discovery

When: Monday, June 3, 4:30 pm

Where: ENG room 203, 44 Cummington Street

Title: Protein modeling, SNPs, and computational drug discovery

Speaker: Professor Michael J E Sternberg

Director, Centre for Integrative Systems Biology and Bioinformatics

Imperial College, London SW7 2AZ,UK

Professor Sternberg’s research focuses on protein bioinformatics. He entered this area after obtaining a first degree in Physics (Cambridge) and a Masters in Computing (Imperial College). He then hopped discipline to undertake a PhD in Biophysics (Oxford). Starting with his thesis research, he has worked in protein bioinformatics contributing to the elucidation of new principles of form and function and the development of algorithms for prediction of protein structure, function and interactions. Recently these approaches have been extended to study protein systems and logic-based drug discovery. He worked at Oxford, Birkbeck College, Cancer Research UK and established the Structural Bioinformatics Group at Imperial in 2001. Professor Sternberg is also the Director of the Centre for Bioinformatics that has the dual roles of co-ordinating research and training across all Faculties in the College together with providing bioinformatics support for the entire College.