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Announcing Fourth Biological Diffusion and Brownian Dynamics Brainstorm Meeting (BDBDB 4)
Biological Diffusion and Brownian Dynamics Brainstorm 4 (BDBDB4) will, like the previous meetings (the last was BDBDB3), provide a forum for intensive …

New TRAPP webserver for studying TRAnsient Pockets in Proteins
Many drugs exert their therapeutic effects by binding in cavities or pockets on specific target protein macromolecules. The binding pockets on …

Young Researcher´s award goes to HITS doctoral student
Mehmet Ali Öztürk, PhD student at HITS and at the Hartmut Hoffmann-Berling International Graduate School of Molecular and Cellular Biology (…

On the front cover: Multiexpert Platform for the Identification of Hits Targeting Parasitic Enzymes
In the New Medicines for Trypanosomatidic Infections (NMTRypI) project funded by the EU and completed in January 2017, in which 13 partners …

HITS is New Associate Partner of CompBioMed Project
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), represented by its Molecular and Cellular Modeling Group (MCM), led by Professor Rebecca Wade, has …

On YouTube: Dr. Kashif Sadiq’s talk on “Predictive Synthetic Retrovirology” at European Health Science Match 2016
Dr. Kashif Sadiq from Molecular and Cellular Modeling (MCM) group at HITS was one of the 100 speakers selected for the European …

On YouTube: LERU Doctoral Summer School, Leiden 2016
Mehmet Öztürk, PhD student from Molecular and Cellular Modeling (MCM) group recently participated in the 2016 LERU Doctoral Summer School held …

On the front cover: Molecular dynamics involved in DNA compaction
DNA is packaged in the cell nucleus by wrapping around proteins called histones to form chromatin fibers. Nucleosomes, the structural units …