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Printing fuel cell membranes: Simulations of shear thinning in Nafion
Fuel cells offer a promising energy generation alternative for a wide range of technologies thanks to their ecological friendliness and unparalleled …
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And again: “Highly Cited Researcher“ at HITS
For six years running, computer scientist Alexandros Stamatakis from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) has been named one of …
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New version of TRAPP released
Researchers from the Molecular and Cellular Modeling (MCM) group at HITS released a new version of the TRAnsient Pockets in Proteins (…
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τRAMD – compute protein-ligand dissociation rates and explore dissociation mechanisms
Researchers from the Molecular and Cellular Modeling (MCM) group at HITS have developed and validated τRAMD (τ-Random Acceleration Molecular Dynamics),an …
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SDA7 – Brownian Dynamics Simulations of Proteins
Researchers from the Molecular and Cellular Modeling (MCM) group at HITS are developing the software “Simulation of Diffusional Association” (SDA) 7. …
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Paper accepted at NeurIPS 2021!
Federico López, NLP group PhD candidate, is the first author of a paper that was accepted as a spotlight paper …
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Searching for a way out of the brain fog caused by COVID-19
HITS is a partner in the new EU-funded research program “BRAVE” that proposes tackling COVID-19 brain inflammation with computer-designed molecules. The …
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More than the sum of its parts: Combining models to improve COVID-19 forecasts
Soon after the beginning of the pandemic, researchers from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and the Karlsruhe Institute of …
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Woman in Science
Svenja de Buhr is a doctoral researcher in the MBM group and today one of the protagonists in the video series “…
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It’s in the DNA: sequence recognition by the linker histone
Using single-pair FRET (Fluorescence/Förster Resonance Energy Transfer) spectroscopy and computational modeling, Madhura De, researcher in the Molecular and Cellular …