Spring 2007 Seminar Series

Bruce Tidor is Professor of Biological Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. He did undergraduate work in Chemistry and Physics at Harvard and then received a Marshall Scholar award to carry out his M.Sc. in Biochemistry at Oxford University's Wolfson College. He returned to Harvard for his Ph.D. in Biophysics and moved to the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, where he started his independent research group as a Whitehead Fellow. In 1994 he was appointed to the faculty at MIT. He is a founder of MITs Computational and Systems Biology Initiative (CSBi) and currently serves as its co-Director and chair of its graduate program.

 

Dr. Tidor's research focuses on the analysis of complex biological systems at the molecular and cellular level. Using molecular modeling, theory, and computation, he explores the structure, function, and interactions of proteins and nucleic acids and the roles played by specific chemical groups in defining the stability and specificity of molecular interactions. Using cell-level models his group is exploring the relationship between network structure and biological function. He is actively involved in applying knowledge from modeling studies to rational design.