My research group focuses on developing computational techniques
for studying protein structure and predicting protein interactions.
This work focuses on three main areas: predicting structurally and
functionally important water binding sites in proteins, identifying
flexible regions and folding pathways from the hydrogen-bond networks
in static protein structures (in collaboration with Michael Thorpe, 
who will present this work), and developing algorithms and in vitro
strategies for screening molecular databases to identify new molecules 
that bind specifically to proteins.  My talk will focus on the 
prediction of how water and other molecular ligands bind to proteins,
and the relevance for protein and drug design.