David Baker
Director of the Institute for Protein Design at University of Washington
David Baker is the Henrietta and Aubrey Davis Endowed Professor in Biochemistry, Director of the Institute for Protein Design, Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and adjunct professor of Genome Sciences, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Science, and Physics at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry with Randy Schekman at the University of California, Berkeley and did postdoctoral work in biophysics with David Agard at UCSF. His research group is focused on the prediction and design of macromolecular structures, interactions and functions.
Visit website: https://depts.washington.edu/biowww/pages/faculty-Baker.shtml
See also: University of Washington (UW) - Public research university in Seattle, Washington
Details last updated 28-Nov-2019
David Baker News
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Singularity Hub - 22-Aug-2023
AI can now design proteins that change shape in response to external stimuli
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SciTechDaily - 17-Jul-2021
Freely accessible software from GitHub to help scientists speedup their research process
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UCSF - 24-Jul-2019
“Smart” cells behave like tiny autonomous robots, planned to detect damage and deliver help
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New York Times - 26-Dec-2017
Our bodies make roughly 20,000 different kinds of proteins. A protein’s particular shape enables...
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