Seminar: Lauren Porter PhD (NLM-NIH)
November 5 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Talk Title: “Predicting new structures with AlphaFold: I do not think it works how they think it works” by Lauren Porter, Ph.D., Distinguished Scholar and Stadtman Investigator at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) – National Institutes of Health (NIH). Host: Brian Kuhlman
Dr. Lauren Porter is a Distinguished Scholar and Stadtman Tenure-track Investigator with a primary appointment at NLM and a secondary appointment at NHLBI. Prior to coming to the NIH, Dr. Porter spent 7 years studying the biological and biophysical properties of fold-switching proteins, first at the University of Maryland and then at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Research Campus. For her research on protein fold switching, Dr. Porter was named a Kavli Fellow by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2023) was selected to give a Burroughs-Wellcome Future of Biophyiscs Lecture at the Biophysical Society Meeting (2023), and received the Maryland Academy of Science’s Outstanding Young Scientist Award (2015) and a National Research Service Award (2014). To read more about Dr. Porter’s research: Lauren Porter