IIT


Illinois Institute of Technology
Biological, Chemical, and Physical Sciences Department
Biology Division

Biology Colloquium: Monday 4 February 2002
Life Sciences Building, Room 111, 3:50 pm
(refreshments at 3:35)

Tobin Sosnick
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department
Institute of Biophysical Dynamics
University of Chicago

How to proteins fold into native structures?



Protein folding is a ubiquitous and fundamental process in biology. A major goal is to understand how these molecules adopt their functional conformations. This goal includes identifying the driving forces, sequence of events, and relevant time scales that govern the complicated folding process.