Ram Samudrala
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| Born | March 23, 1972 |
| Fields | Computational biology |
| Institutions | State University of New York, University of Washington |
| Alma mater | Ohio Wesleyan University, Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology, Stanford University |
| Doctoral advisor | John Moult |
| Other academic advisors | Michael Levitt |
| Doctoral students | Aaron Goldman Brady Bernard Ekachai Jenwitheesuk Gong Cheng James Schuler Jeremy Horst Kai Wang Matt Hudson Stewart Moughon Tianyun Liu |
| Other notable students | Aaron Chang Adrian Laurenzi Brian Buttrick Ersin Emre Oren Gaurav Chopra Geetika Sethi George White Jason McDermott Ling-Hong Hung Michal Guerquin Raymond Zhang Zach Frasier |
| Known for | All atom knowledge based simulations, structural systems biology, computational drug discovery, free music philosophy |
| Influences | Douglas Hofstadter, Richard Stallman |
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Ram Samudrala is a professor of computational biology and bioinformatics at the State University of New York in Buffalo, and formerly at the University of Washington in Seattle, United States. He researches protein and proteome folding, structure, function, interaction, design, and evolution spanning atomic to organismal levels of description. He has published more than 120 manuscripts in a variety of journals including Science,Nature,PLoS Biology,Drug Discovery Today, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Samudrala is also a musician who has published and recorded work under the pseudonym TWISTED HELICES. In 1994, he published the Free music Philosophy, which accurately predicted how the ease of copying and transmitting digital information by the Internet would lead to unprecedented violations of copyright laws and new models of distribution for music and other digital media. His work in this area was reported as early as 1997 by diverse media outlets including Billboard,Forbes,Levi's Original Music Magazine,The Free Radical,Wired and The New York Times.
Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Washington, Samudrala was a post-doctoral fellow with Michael Levitt at Stanford University from 1997–2000, with a fellowship from the Program in Mathematics and Molecular Biology (funded by the NSF and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund). He received his undergraduate degrees in Computing Science and Genetics from Ohio Wesleyan University (1990–1993) as a Wesleyan Scholar, and completed his Ph.D. in Computational Structural Biology with John Moult at the Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology in Rockville, MD (1993–1997) as a Life Technologies Fellow. In 2001, Samudrala became the first faculty member to be recruited, as an Assistant Professor, under the Advanced Technology Initiative in Infectious Diseases created by the Washington State Legislature "as a bridge between cutting-edge research and education, and new economic activity." He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2006. In 2014, he became Professor and Chief of the Division of Bioinformatics at the State University of New York, Buffalo, while remaining affiliated with the University of Washington in a variety of ways.
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