Computersim ula tionofpr oteinfolding
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MichaelLevittandhisresearch
Basicreviewofhisearlywork
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MichaelLevitt
Education
1964-1967 B.Sc. in Physics, King's College, London, UK
1967-1968 Royal Society Fellow with S. Lifson , Weizmann
Institute, Israel
1968-1971 Ph.D. in Biophysics, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
and Cambridge University , Cambridge, UK.
1972-1974 EMBO postdoctoral Fellow, Shneior Lifson Weizmann Institute of
Science, Rehovot, Israel.
1974-1979 Staff Scientist, Structural Studies, MRC Laboratory Molecular
Biology, Cambridge, England.
1977-1979 Visiting Scientist with Francis Crick, Salk Institute, La Jolla, California.
1979-1987 Associate & Full Professor of Chemical Physics, Department of Chemical
Physics,
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Chair from 1980-1983, Full
Professor from 1984.
1987- Professor of Structural Biology, Department of Structural
Biology, Stanford University
School of Medicine, Stanford. Chair from July 1993.
Professional Experience
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ResearchIn t e r e s t
PhysicalSimulation
HeuristicStructurePrediction
StructuralBio‐Informatics
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Earlyresearch
Levitt’searlyresearchinterestfocusedonEnergyMinimizationto
refineProteinConformation
Hisrepresentativeworkduringearliercareer:
ItisaFirst energyminimizationofanentireproteinmolecule.
Levitt,M.andS.Lifson.RefinementofProteinConformationsUsingaMacromolecular
EnergyMinimizationProcedure. J.Mol.Biol. 46,269‐279(1969).
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