Rice University
Computer Science Dept.
MS 132
PO Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251-1892
USA
office: Duncan Hall 3075
email: “nurith” at cs.rice.edu
phone: (713) 348-5710
I am a Postdoctoral research associate in Lydia Kavraki's Physical and biological computing group at Rice university.
I graduated from the Department of Computer Science in Tel Aviv University, Israel, where I was a member of the structural bioinformatics group. My advisors were Prof. Ruth Nussinov and Prof. Haim Wolfson.
More details can be found in my CV.
My research lies in the areas of computational structural biology and structural bioinformatics. My goal is to better understand the structure and flexibility of proteins, to model conformational changes in proteins, and to design novel nano-structures which may contribute to the understanding of the self-assembly properties of proteins and facilitate experimental nano-design. In my research, I focus on both the development of novel algorithms and the application of state-of-the-art existing methodologies to various problems in molecular biology, nanobiology and biochemistry.
A detailed description of my past and present research can be found here.