Biophysics Seminar: Professor Rhiju Das, Stanford University

Dr. Das’s lab develops and tests high-resolution computational approaches for modeling and designing RNA molecules and their complexes. He will present recent work that includes near-atomic-accuracy models in community-wide structure prediction challenges and first blind tests for predicting the ‘nearest neighbor’ energies of RNA folding. Dr. Das will also describe recent progress in design of biomedically relevant RNA molecules through the Eterna massive open laboratory. This project couples a 100,000-player videogame to the lab’s massively parallel experimental tools.