Visualizing Science: Molecular Biology: Schrödinger, Protein Data Bank

Join us for a webinar about ideas, opportunities, benefits, and techniques for creating visuals that have an impact. Columbia Art Director Nicoletta Barolini introduces Abigail Emtage, Senior Scientist II from Schrödinger, Professor David Goodsell  from Scripps Research Institute and Rutgers University, Professor Tal Danino of Columbia University, and Founder & CEO from Digizyme, Gaël McGill for four presentations.

ABIGAIL EMTAGE, Ph.D.
Schrodinger, Senior Scientist II and Education Specialist

Emtage works to convey key computational chemistry concepts by providing Schrödinger software training for customers, colleagues, and via science outreach projects. Her research has predominantly focused on G Protein-Coupled Receptor modeling, docking, and molecular dynamics simulation in order to better understand structure-activity relationships. 

DAVID GOODSELL, Ph.D.
Professor of Computational Biology at the Scripps Research Institute and Research Professor at Rutgers State University

Goodsell's research centers on methods for computational structural biology and their application to drug design, protein function prediction, and modeling of the molecular structure of entire cells. His current work includes the development of AutoDock, the most widely-used computational docking program in the scientific community, and CellPack, a new method for creating three-dimensional atomic models of large portions of cells. 

TAL DANINO, Ph.D.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Danino is an Associate Professor at Columbia University in the Biomedical Engineering Department where he directs the interdisciplinary Synthetic Biological Systems Lab. He engineers some of the smallest forms of life, in the form of “programmable” bacteria, and transforms living microorganisms like bacteria and cancer cells from the laboratory into bioart works using various forms of media. 

GAËL MCGILL, Ph.D.
Founder & CEO, Digizyme Inc.
Director of Molecular Visualization, Harvard Medical School
Co-author & Digital Director, E.O. Wilson’s Life on Earth

Gaël McGill is faculty and Director of Molecular Visualization at the Center for Molecular and Cellular Dynamics at Harvard Medical School where his teaching and research focuses on visualization design and assessment methods in science education. He is also founder & CEO of Digizyme, Inc. (www.digizyme.com) a firm dedicated to the visualization and communication of science.