Vikram Mulligan, PhD

Research Scientist at Flatiron Institute

Speaker

Vikram K. Mulligan completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto, working on mechanisms of protein misfolding in late-onset neurodegenerative diseases such as ALS. As a postdoc in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Washington, he worked to generalize the Rosetta software suite, to that point used to model and design proteins built from the canonical amino acids, to allow general synthetic heteropolymer modelling and design. He now co-heads the Biomolecular Design group in the Center for Computational Biology at the Flatiron Institute, where he works to advance synthetic heteropolymer design pipelines, incorporating quantum chemistry calculations, advanced sampling strategies using massively parallel CPU and GPU architectures, and quantum computing algorithms.