12th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology - BICOB 2020

Invited Keynote Speakers


Dr. Ron O. Dror, Associate Professor
Dept. of Computer Science
Stanford University
San Francisco, California USA
E-mail: ron DOT dror AT stanford DOT edu
DrorLab: http://drorlab.stanford.edu/contact.html
CS at Stanford:   https://profiles.stanford.edu/ron-dror

  

Bio: Ron Dror is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and, by courtesy, Molecular and Cellular Physiology and Structural Biology at Stanford University. Dr. Dror leads a group that employs a broad range of computational methods to study the structure and dynamics of biomolecules and drugs. Before joining Stanford, Dr. Dror served as second-in-command of D. E. Shaw Research. Dr. Dror earned a PhD at MIT and an MPhil as a Churchill Scholar at the University of Cambridge.

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Molecular simulation and learning for the design of finely tuned drugs
Ron O. Dror - Stanford University
  
The vision of structure-based drug design has long been to predict how drug candidates will influence the function of target proteins. This has historically proven challenging, but it is beginning to become a reality thanks to advances in computational methods and technologies. I will present recent studies in which we used molecular dynamics simulations to determine detailed mechanisms of drug action and protein function for a number of drug targets. I will also demonstrate machine learning approaches to structural prediction of intermolecular interactions.

Time: 9:00AM Monday March 23 2020