Amedeo Caflisch
Professor
Biochemistry
University of Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
Amedeo Caflisch has been a Full Professor of Computational Structural Biology at the Department of Biochemistry since 2001. The activities of his research group include the development and application of computational methods to investigate protein folding and aggregation, as well as structure-based drug design. Amedeo Caflisch studied Theoretical Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich where he graduated in 1991. From 1992 until 1994 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the research group of Prof. Martin Karplus at the Harvard Department of Chemistry and Biology. Amedeo Caflisch joined the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Zurich in 1995 as a senior research assistant and was appointed assistant professor in 1996.
Research Interest
Development and application of computational methods to investigate protein folding and aggregation, as well as structure-based drug design.
Publications
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Ferrara P, Apostolakis J, Caflisch A (2002) Evaluation of a fast implicit solvent model for molecular dynamics simulations. Proteins. 46(1):24-33.
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Rao F, Caflisch A (2004) The protein folding network. J Mol Biol. 2004 Sep 3;342(1):299-306.
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Brooks BR, Brooks CL 3rd, Mackerell AD Jr, Nilsson L, Petrella RJ, et al. (2009) CHARMM: the biomolecular simulation program. J Comput Chem 30(10):1545-614.
