Event

Lecture

Biomedical Informatics/CTSI Seminar Series/OP Jones Lecture: Nobel Laureate Michael Levitt

Date:
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Time:
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Location:
Butler Aud, 150 Farber Hall
Cost:
Free
Presenter:
Michael Levitt, PhD
Sponsor:
CTSI/OP Jones Lecture/Biomedical Informatics

The University at Buffalo Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) and the Department of Biomedical Informatics present the 6th Annual Oliver "O.P." Jones Lecture in the Butler Auditorium at UB's South Campus, Tuesday, May 2, at 3:30 p.m.

Dr. Michael Levitt, winner of the 2013 Nobel prize in chemistry, will speak on "The Birth and Future of Multiscale Modeling of Macromolecules."

Levitt is the Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Endowed Professor in Cancer Research in the Department of Structural Biology at the Stanford School of Medicine. UB's very own Dr. Ram Samudrala, Chief of Bioinformatics in the Department of Biomedical Informatics, was mentored by Dr. Levitt.

During his talk, he will describe the origins of computational structural biology and present some of the most exciting current and future applications.

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For more information, contact:

Dr. Elkin
Email: elkinp@buffalo.edu
Phone: 716-816-7292