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DESCRIPTION:Computational Structural Biology of Plants\n\nAbstract: Virtual
 ly all processes in living organisms\, from nutrient transport to the regu
 lation of growth\, are mediated by proteins. Gaining a detailed view of th
 e biological processes requires understanding of the structure and functio
 n of the proteins involved in these processes. Sequence information is wid
 ely available for proteins across organisms\, but structural information i
 s still lacking\, especially for plant proteins. Structural biology has pr
 ovided valuable insights and high-resolution views of the biophysical proc
 esses in plants\, such as photosynthesis\, hormone signaling and nutrient 
 transport. However\, structural biology only provides a few “snapshots
 ” of protein structure\, whereas in vivo\, protein function involves com
 plex dynamical processes such as ligand binding and conformational changes
  that structures alone are unable to capture in full detail. In this talk\
 , we present methods that allow all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulatio
 ns to be leveraged as a “computational microscope” providing detailed 
 structural and dynamical information about the molecular machinery in plan
 ts and gain high-resolution insights into function of plant hormone recept
 ors and transporters.\n\nBiography: Diwakar Shukla is a Blue Waters assist
 ant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering a
 t University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also an affiliate facu
 lty in the Center for Biophysics & Quantitative biology and Plant Biology.
  His research work is focused on understanding the complex biological proc
 esses using physics-based models and techniques. In particular\, his resea
 rch group at Illinois is focusing on structural and dynamic understanding 
 of plant proteins. He started his research career at the Indian Institute 
 of Technology (IIT) Bombay\, India\, where he received B. Tech and M. Tech
 . degrees in chemical engineering. He then joined Massachusetts Institute 
 of Technology where he received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in chemical enginee
 ring. Before joining Illinois\, he worked with Prof. Vijay Pande at Stanfo
 rd University on developing distributed computing approaches for understan
 ding protein dynamics. In his independent career\, he has received several
  awards for his research and teaching including the NSF Early CAREER award
 \, Sloan research fellowship in chemistry\, New innovator award in food & 
 agriculture research and Excellence in teaching award from University of I
 llinois.
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SUMMARY:CBE Seminar Series: Diwakar Shukla\, University of Illinois at Urba
 na-Champaign
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 hukla_university_of_illinois_at_urbana-champaign
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