Valerie Daggett
Valerie Daggett is a professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, United States.
Valerie D. Daggett | |
|---|---|
| Education | University of California, San Francisco |
| Known for | Large-scale simulations of protein folding |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Stanford University |
| Thesis | Molecular modelling of peptides and proteins (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Irwin Kuntz, Peter Kollman |
| Other academic advisors | Michael Levitt |
Education and career
Daggett has a B.S. from Reed College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco, advised by Irwin Kuntz and Peter Kollman, and subsequently held a postdoctoral position at Stanford University with Michael Levitt, a co-recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[1]
As of 2021, she is also the chief executive officer of AltPep, a biomedical startup that was a spinoff from her research at the University of Washington.[2]
Research
Her laboratory focuses on work in molecular dynamics simulations of proteins and other biomolecules. Daggett is well known for large-scale simulations of protein folding, especially unfolding, and native state dynamics through her "dynameomics" project.[3][4] In 2005, the Daggett laboratory was awarded a supercomputing grant by the U.S. Department of Energy, which was renewed for almost two million processor-hours in 2006;[5] the group has also participated in Microsoft Research high-performance computing projects.[6]
Awards and honors
In 2011, Daggett was named a fellow of the Biophysical Society.[7] Daggett was one of two University of Washington scientists named 2015 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering fellows.[8]
References
- Daggett, Valerie. "Daggett Research Group". Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- "Team | AltPep". www.altpep.com. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
- Doerr, Alison (2010). "A database of dynamics". Nature Methods. 7 (6): 426. doi:10.1038/nmeth0610-426. PMID 20524218.
- Van Der Kamp, M. W.; Schaeffer, R. D.; Jonsson, A. L.; Scouras, A. D.; Simms, A. M.; Toofanny, R. D.; Benson, N. C.; Anderson, P. C.; Merkley, E. D.; Rysavy, S.; Bromley, D.; Beck, D. A. C.; Daggett, V. (2010). "Dynameomics: A Comprehensive Database of Protein Dynamics". Structure. 18 (4): 423–435. doi:10.1016/j.str.2010.01.012. PMC 2892689. PMID 20399180.
- DOE press release on the awarding of INCITE grants. 22 Dec 2004. Access date 17 Jan 2007.
- Microsoft Corporation. "GrayWulf Takes Byte Out of Data Overload". Microsoft Research. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
- "2 0 1 9 H I S T O R I C A L I N F O R M A T I O N" (PDF). Retrieved November 17, 2021.
- Wright, Laura Elizabeth (26 January 2015). "Suzie Pun and Valerie Daggett elected AIMBE Fellows". University of Washington Department of Engineering. Retrieved 10 February 2015.