KAUST Research Conference
Computational Advances in Structural Biology
May 1 - 3, 2023 Auditorium between building 4 & 5
Samir M Hamdan, Professor of Bioscience and Associate Dean of Biological and Environmental Sciences & Engineering (BESE) will give the opening remarks for the conference.
Professor, Bioscience; Associate Dean, Biological and Environmental Sciences & Engineering
This session will be chaired by conference co-chair Prof. Stefan Arold.
Group leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL, Germany
Director of Sales Development ,Thermo Fisher Scientific, UK
Team leader, CNRS Research Scientist, Inria Grenoble, France
Group Leader, Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Germany
Professor, Computer Science
Associate Professor of Genome Stability, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
This session will chaired by Robert Hoehndorf, Interim Associate Director of CBRC and Associate Professor of Computer Science.
Professor of Chemistry, the University of Bern, Switzerland
Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, USA
Research Scientist
Head of AI and Bioinformatics, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC), KSA
Assistant Professor, Bioscience
Professor of Molecular Modelling, University College London
Head of the Institute for Protein Design, Professor in Biochemistry, University of Washington, USA
This session will be chaired by Prof. Mikhail Moshkov.
Senior Research Programmer, University of Illinois, USA
Professor Structural Biology, Institute Pasteur, France
Group leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Hamburg
Researcher CNRS, ENS Paris Saclay
Professor of Physics & ITbM, Nagoya University, Japan
Project Group Leader, Max-Planck Institute of Biophysics, Deutschland
Associate Professor of Biological Physics, University of Leeds, UK
Poster competition will take place in Building 9 Hallway.
This session will be chaired by Prof. Ivan Viola
Scientist, Harvard Medical School, USA
Core Lab representative will take guests through a guided tours of the Imaging & Characterization Core Lab and the Bioscience Core Lab. (On demand)
This session will be chaired by Associate Professor Ricardo Henao.
Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, USA
Professor of Human Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Head of Swedish National cryo-EM facility and Principal Investigator at Scilifelab, Sweden
Professor, University of Kansas, USA
Assistant Professor, Bioscience
President at Insilico Medicine, New York, USA
This session will be chaired by Assistant Professor Andreas Naschberger.
PhD Student, KAUST
Postdoc, University of Cambridge, UK
Computational Biologist, University of Oxford, UK
PhD Student, KAUST
Closing remarks will be given by Prof. Stefan Arold and Prof. Lawrence Carin (KAUST Provost)
KAUST Provost, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Bioscience