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David Baker

David Baker

University of Washington & Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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David Baker received a BA in Biology from Harvard University and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley.  Currently, Baker is the Head of the Institute for Protein Design and a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Washington, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. His research utilizes both experimental and computational methods to study the design of protein structures, and the mechanisms of protein folding, protein-protein and protein-small molecule interactions.

Baker’s lab developed the crowd-sourced protein folding design programs Rosetta@home (http://boinc.bakerlab.org/) and Foldit (http://fold.it/portal/).  Baker has won numerous awards for his work including the Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Biophysics in 2008.  Baker is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Sciences.

Talks with this Speaker

Crowd Sourcing Protein Folding: Rosetta@Home and FoldIt

David Baker talks about crowdsourcing science and how Foldit, an interactive protein folding program, allows individuals to predict the most likely fold for a protein. (Talk recorded in April 2014)

David Baker
Audience:
  • Student
  • Researcher
  • Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
  • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 14:41

Introduction to Protein Design and Protein Design Algorithms

David Baker begins his talk by describing two reciprocal research problems and discusses results demonstrating that the protein design algorithms work well. (Talk recorded in April 2014)

  • Part 1: Introduction to Protein Design
    Part 1: Introduction to Protein Design
    Audience:
    • Researcher
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 21:21
  • Part 2: Design of New Protein Functions
    Part 2: Design of New Protein Functions
    Audience:
    • Researcher
    • Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
    Duration: 26:47

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