Please join Yale Chemistry for a Silliman Seminar in Theoretical Chemistry with Ronald Levy, Director of the Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology and Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Biology, from Temple University.
Title: TBD
Research in the Levy group is focused on the development and application of computational methods for studying the structure, function, and dynamics of proteins. They work on problems involving the interplay between computational models in structural biology and experiments at different levels of resolution and different time scales. Using a statistical mechanics framework, they are mapping conformational free energy landscapes that determine the statistical thermodynamic basis for protein-ligand binding and protein allostery. The Levy Group surveys corresponding fitness landscapes in sequence space, and develops new statistical methods to analyze how correlated mutations evolve under drug selection pressure, leading to resistance.
For more information on Professor Levy’s research: https://ronlevygroup.cst.temple.edu/levygroup_research.html
Faculty Hosts: Professor Tianyu Zhu and Professor Bill Jorgensen
This seminar is generously sponsored by the Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman Memorial Fund.