<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div class="gmail_default" style=""><div class="gmail_default" style=""><p style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style=""><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b style="">When:</b>    </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">  Monday, May 10, 2021 at 11:10 am CT</font></font><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Where:</b>     </font></font><font color="#000000">Zoom Virtual Talk (</font><b><font color="#0000ff"><a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Zfjujua0SKyevZMJqrPAeg">register in advance here</a></font></b><font color="#000000">)</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b>       Ron Dror, Stanford University    </font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.9)"><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></b></span></p><br><b>Title:      </b>  Learning and Simulating Atomic-Level Biomolecular Structure     <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><b>Abstract:</b> The vision of structure-based drug design has long been to predict how chemical compounds will influence the function of their molecular targets. This has historically proven challenging, but it is beginning to become a reality thanks to advances in computational methods and technologies. I will present recent work on the use of physics-based simulations to guide the design of compounds that stimulate desired protein functions, and on the design of machine learning architectures for reasoning about three-dimensional atomic-level molecular structures.<br><br><b>Bio: </b>Ron Dror is an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, where he works at the intersection between structural biology, pharmacology, and computer science. He collaborates extensively with experimentalists in both academia and industry. Before joining Stanford, he served as second-in-command of D. E. Shaw Research. Dr. Dror earned graduate degrees in computer science and biology at MIT and the University of Cambridge.<div dir="auto" style=""><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:1120px"><div><div id="gmail-m_-1807387322050756054gmail-m_3804487811790926557gmail-m_-1916303418504908038m_171242323807179252gmail-m_-8743081643725194343gmail-:369" style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-m_-1807387322050756054gmail-m_3804487811790926557gmail-m_-1916303418504908038m_171242323807179252gmail-m_-8743081643725194343gmail-:1ro" style="overflow:hidden;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.5"><div dir="auto"><div><div dir="auto"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Host:  </b><a href="mailto:klivescu@ttic.edu"><b>Karen Livescu</b></a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">For more information on the <span class="gmail-il">colloquium</span> series or to subscribe to the mailing list, please see <a href="http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php" target="_blank">http://www.<span class="gmail-il">ttic</span>.edu/colloquium.php</a>    </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signa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