Phase Space Invaders (ψ)

Miłosz Wieczór
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With the convergence of data, computing power, and new methods, computational biology is at its most exciting moment. At PSI, we're asking the leading researchers in the field to discover where we're headed for, and which exciting pathways will take us there. Whether you're just thinking of starting your research career or have been computing stuff for decades, come and join the conversation!

  1. 4月22日

    Episode 29 - Jérôme Hénin: Free energy methods, building useful software, and human learning from biomolecular systems

    Send us a text Jerome starts our conversation by reviewing the history of the ABF method and its advantages compared to the main competitors, and connects it to the development of COLVARS, historically very parallel to how the development of the Plumed tool stemmed from the needs of the metadynamics community. We discuss the benefits of graphical interfaces in biomolecular workflows, and touch upon the question of connecting multiple software environments and communities. We then move on to discuss membrane systems and the challenges they pose, both historically and today, and end up on the alchemical side, talking about the latest approaches to alchemical free energy calculations from several exciting angles. Eventually, we agree that regardless of software developments, it's learning and helping others learn to understand molecular systems that's the most rewarding part of the job of a biophysicist.

    46 分钟

  2. 4月15日

    Episode 28 - Yuji Sugita: Replica exchange, software for massive simulations, and importance of long-distance collaborations

    Send us a text In Episode 28, Yuji Sugita shares the story of how he developed temperature replica exchange in the lab of Yuko Okamoto, connecting to his early experience from working with Nobuhiro Go, the father of Go models. We then talk about the process of building up workflows for simulating massive atomistic systems, a multi-year collaboration with Michael Feig, and ponder the question of when one should go about writing their own scientific software rather than reusing existing software packages. Talking about molecular crowding naturally brings us to current and future directions, which for Yuji include simulating increasingly multi-component condensates and exploring multi-resolution schemes in GENESIS. Towards the end, he highlights the need for young researchers to engage with the international community through long-distance collaborations, regardless of where one ends up living and working.

    39 分钟

  3. 3月25日

    Episode 27 - Kresten Lindorff-Larsen: Refining force fields, the science of intrinsically disordered proteins, and writing better grant proposals

    Send us a text In episode 27, Kresten starts by explaining his path from a wet lab biochemist to a computational biophysicist, a story full of open-ended explorations and helpful mentors. He gives us some background on how both the legacy and latest models developed, highlighting how in each case the driving force were experimental results that either weren't quite matching simulations, or were plenty enough to allow for top-down training. We walk through some of the functions and applications of intrinsically disordered regions, or IDRs in short, and their relevance for medical research. Then towards the end, Kresten shares some tips and observations from his work in grant evaluation, insisting that internal peer review remains the best source of feedback, but in the end it's one's scientific intuition that has to guide us.

    50 分钟

  4. 3月18日

    Episode 26 - Pratyush Tiwary: Infusing AI with physics, understanding emergent phenomena, the value of education and thinking

    Send us a text In episode 26, we talk about the origins of Pratyush's passion for statistical mechanics, deeply rooted in his background in material science, and think about how we can promote a profound understanding of statmech theory among people working in computational biophysics. From there, we explore ways of re-introducing physical rigor into modern data-driven approaches, which is the main concern that Pratyush says drives his research agenda. He ends up sharing a ton of interesting points on working with the industry, the value of education and knowledge sharing, or the philosophy of complex and cognitive systems, and ends up with a call for more time for silent thinking, where - he says - most of his original ideas came from.

    44 分钟

  5. 3月11日

    Episode 25 - Ivet Bahar: Elastic network models, targeting hinges for drug discovery, persistence and alertness

    Send us a text In episode 25, Ivet and me start with a general overview of the elastic network theory and its applications to biology, as well as its strengths and limitations. Ivet then tells us about the specific takeaways from the different lines of her research, talking about evolutionary dynamics signatures, mode excitations in allosteric effects, as well as her recent research on the relevance of hinge regions for drug discovery. We talk about the relevance of the proteins-as-graphs picture for machine learning, and end up with a few general reflections about the complementary roles of persistence and alertness in scientific careers.

    40 分钟

  6. 1月7日 · 附赠内容

    Episode 24½ - My thoughts on season 3

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    26 分钟

  7. 2024/12/30

    Episode 24 - Katarzyna Marcinkiewicz [Nature Communications]: The job of a full-time editor, transparency and other novelties in publishing, and coaching the review process

    Send us a text In episode 24, Katarzyna talks about the everyday concerns and common threads of an editor's job, from continuously learning about the rapid developments in the field to navigating the review process. She shares some inside stories about the experimental features that journals tinker with these days, and it's good to know that many interesting ideas are being tested out there in the wild. We then discuss a bit about the evolution of the publishing process, including its perception among us research scientists. We largely leave the questions of profits and finance out of the conversation, so this is purely a conversation between two science aficionados who care deeply about the scientific enterprise being transparent, just, open to novelty and focused on quality evidence.

    49 分钟

  8. 2024/12/17

    Episode 23 - Zoe Cournia: Precision medicine, designing allosteric drugs, and the role of an academic editor

    Send us a text In episode 23, Zoe and me discuss the current status and promises of drug design, a field where many things seem trivial but nothing is really simple. Zoe talks about the challenges that precision medicine is facing, and how it fits into the grand landscape of future therapies. We go through some success stories, and I ask Zoe how the recent additions to drug design workflows help them in everyday scientific practice, both in terms of physics-based and data-driven models. We then spend a moment talking about the opportunities and responsibilities of a journal editor, and what are the lessons Zoe learned from creating her startup.

    50 分钟
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With the convergence of data, computing power, and new methods, computational biology is at its most exciting moment. At PSI, we're asking the leading researchers in the field to discover where we're headed for, and which exciting pathways will take us there. Whether you're just thinking of starting your research career or have been computing stuff for decades, come and join the conversation!

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  • 创作者
    Miłosz Wieczór
  • 活跃年份
    2024年 - 2025年
  • 单集
    33
  • 分级
    儿童适宜
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    © 2025 Phase Space Invaders (ψ)
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