What’s Up Doc(k)? Development and applications of virtual protein/ligand docking
Speaker: Jerome Baudry, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Time: 11am -12 pm
Date: March 24, 2011
Location: Room 4004, Atkinson Hall, Calit2, UCSD
Hosts: Rommie Amaro, Ph.D., and Wilfred W. Li, Ph.D.,
UCI, UCSD, California, USA
Abstract: We describe our development of the AutoDock docking program for High Performance Computing and Cloud architectures. We also present applications of protein/ligand virtual docking to identify environmental estrogenic pollutants in multiple proteins of a biochemical pathway.
Speaker bio: Dr. Baudry obtained his Ph.D. in Molecular Biophysics from the University of Paris, France and the French Atomic Energy Commission, under the direction of Prof. Jeremy Smith. As a postdoc he worked with Prof. Klaus Schulten at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). After working at a pharmaceutical company in North Carolina for 2 years, Dr. Baudry returned to UIUC, first as a staff scientist, and then as a non-tenure track research faculty. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee, with appointments in the department of Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology, the UT/ORNL center for molecular biophysics, and the UT/ORNL Joint Center for Computational Sciences.
