Eugene Shakhnovich

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
12 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

eugene@belok.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-4130

Roel Torres

Laboratory Administrator

Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University
12 Oxford Street, M-108
Cambridge, MA 02138

rtorres@chemistry.harvard.edu

p: (617) 495-8733

Bharat Adkar

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Experimental molecular evolution

It is widely believed that mutations shape the organismal fitness landscape through their effects on protein...

Simon Axelrod

Graduate Student (Chemical Physics)
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Co-supervised by Prof. Rafael Gomez-Bombarelli at MIT

Research interests:

Virtual drug screening, machine learning, light-induced processes, quantum dynamics

Education...

Sanchari Bhattacharyya

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Experimental molecular evolution

In recent work done in the lab, fitness of E. coli strains were determined with chromosomally incorporated...

Amir Bitran

Graduate Student
Harvard Biophysics

I am broadly interested in how biological molecules self-assemble into structures or complexes that allow them to perform their diverse and crucial...

Sourav Chowdhury

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

My research primarily aims to characterize biophysical fitness landscapes of evolving bacterial populations. One of my current project pivots around...

David Graff

Graduate Student
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Accelerating virtual drug discovery using machine learning and optimization

deg711@g.harvard.edu

Kibum Park

Graduate Student
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

I am interested in studying protein folding and drug discovery using various computational methods.

kibum_park@g.harvard.edu

Srivastav Ranganathan

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

aditya.sia@gmail.com

João Rodrigues

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

jrodrigues@fas.harvard.edu

Eugene Serebryany

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Protein intermediate states

In addition to the native state, complex proteins are capable of adopting a variety of partially folded intermediate...

David Thorn

Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

They say your eyes show your age. There appears to be some truth to this adage when considering the biochemical processes in the human lens, the part of the... Read more about David Thorn

david_thorn@fas.harvard.edu

Victor Zhao

Graduate Student
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Studies of protein evolution using biophysical fitness models

I study protein evolution using a variety of computational approaches. My...

Shakhnovich Biophysics Lab

Multiscale Theoretical and Experimental Studies of Physical Chemical Principles of Living Matter

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People

Eugene Shakhnovich

Roel Torres

Bharat Adkar

Simon Axelrod

Sanchari Bhattacharyya

Amir Bitran

Sourav Chowdhury

David Graff

Kibum Park

Srivastav Ranganathan

João Rodrigues

Eugene Serebryany

David Thorn

Victor Zhao