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Ben Brown

@bpbrown.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University. MD/PhD who doesn't practice medicine. I am interested in biomolecular motion and drug design. Computational biology, multiscale modeling, cheminformatics, opioid receptors, EGFR kinase

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Ben Brown @bpbrown.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Super proud of Katy Butler for being awarded a Goldwater Scholarship! news.ua.edu/2026/04/3-ua.... Katy interned in my lab, where she worked on formulating protein conformational sampling on quantum annealers. She is exceptional - look out for her PhD!
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3 UA Students Awarded Prestigious Goldwater Scholarships
The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program has selected three UA students as Goldwater Scholars for 2026-2027.
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Ben Brown @bpbrown.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
My first manuscript as an independent PI, and my first single-author research article, is now published in @pnas.org. It's an attempt to contribute to the dialogue on generalizability in structure-based protein-small molecule affinity prediction with neural networks.
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Frank Noe @franknoe.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Super excited to preprint our work on developing a Biomolecular Emulator (BioEmu): Scalable emulation of protein equilibrium ensembles with generative deep learning from @msftresearch.bsky.social ch AI for Science. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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CATH-Gene3D @cathgene3d.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A new version of CATH, v4.4, is out! 🎉 Here’s a link to the manuscript in NAR.
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CATH v4.4: major expansion of CATH by experimental and predicted structural data
Abstract. CATH (https://www.cathdb.info) is a structural classification database that assigns domains to the structures in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) and
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