Postdoctoral
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Our postdocs come to us from around the globe and are among the most accomplished members of the MIT Biology community.
Sergei Kotelnikov
Proteins act like the bricks that construct an organism, underpinning almost every cellular process from tissue repair to hormone production. Like pieces of a Lego tower, their structures and interactions determine the functions that they carry out in a body. Computational biologist Sergei Kotelnikov is working to develop new methods in protein modeling as part of the School of Science Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship with the Keating Lab, where researchers focus on protein structur, function, and interaction. Kotelnikov builds models to analyze and predict the structure of these biomolecules, particularly proteins, the fundamental building blocks of every organism. Using machine learning, his goal is to develop new methods in protein modeling with potential applications that span from medicine to agriculture.