Closing keynote: The Coming of Age of De Novo Protein Design, host: David Baker, Science for Life Conference 2020, @Krowden

Closing keynote: The Coming of Age of De Novo Protein Design

Proteins mediate the critical processes of life and beautifully solve the challenges faced during the evolution of modern organisms. Our goal is to design a new generation of proteins that address current day problems not faced during evolution.

In contrast to traditional protein engineering efforts, which have focused on modifying naturally occurring proteins, we design new proteins from scratch based on Anfinsen’s principle that proteins fold to their global free energy minimum. We compute amino acid sequences predicted to fold into proteins with new structures and functions, produce synthetic genes encoding these sequences, and characterize them experimentally.

David Baker will describe the de novo design of fluorescent proteins, membrane penetrating macrocycles, transmembrane protein channels, allosteric proteins that carry out logic operations, and self-assembling nanomaterials and polyhedra. He will also discuss the application of these methods to COVID-19 challenges.

16-11-2020 17:00 - 18:15

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Closing keynote: The Coming of Age of De Novo Protein Design

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