David S. Goodsell

Biography

David S. Goodsell holds a dual appointment as Professor of Computational Biology at the Scripps Research Institute and Research Professor at Rutgers State University. He divides his time between research and science outreach. His research centers on methods for computational structural biology and their application to drug design and cellular structure and function. This includes development of CellPack, a method for creating three-dimensional atomic models of cells, and AutoDock, the most widely-used computational docking program in the scientific community. He applies these methods to viral biology and structure and function of bacterial cells. In his science outreach work, he has developed new visual methods for exploring molecular and cellular structure. This includes three decades of work on depiction of the cellular mesoscale, and development of non-photorealistic rendering methods for molecular and cellular subjects. He creates outreach materials for the RCSB Protein Data Bank, including a popular monthly column that presents molecular structure and function for general audiences. He has written four general-interest books on molecular biology, cell biology and bionanotechnology, and collaborated with science museums, filmmakers, educators and popular authors on the creation of educational and outreach materials.

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