Samuel Eriksson Lidbrink PhD student

Contact

Name and title: Samuel Eriksson LidbrinkPhD student

Workplace: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Länk till annan webbplats.

Visiting address Svante Arrhenius väg 16

Postal address Institutionen för biokemi och biofysik106 91 Stockholm

Research group

Erik Lindahl's research group

Our research is focused on understanding the doors and windows of our cells in the form of membrane proteins in general, and in particular the functions of ion channels and pumps that transport ions to make our nervous system work.



Proteins play many essential roles in the human body; muscle contraction, transportation of oxygen in the blood and nerve signals in the brain all depend on them. We can improve our understanding of such processes, and potentially develop treatments if they go wrong, if we know the structure of the proteins involved. To properly see all the details of the protein structures, however, we need to zoom in to such a small scale that we cannot use normal light microscopy. Instead, we have to use other tools. Some of these tools are computational and use physics-based equations and/or machine learning to predict the protein structures. These computational methods can often provide much more details of the protein than experimental methods, e.g. by capturing a "movie" of how the proteins move in space, instead of still images. In my research, I use computer simulations of the proteins and AI-driven tools to determine protein structures. I both use established computational methods to better understand the structure of proteins where we lack the full structural picture, and also try to develop new methods for doing this.


Contact

Name and title: Samuel Eriksson LidbrinkPhD student

Workplace: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics Länk till annan webbplats.

Visiting address Svante Arrhenius väg 16

Postal address Institutionen för biokemi och biofysik106 91 Stockholm

Research group

Erik Lindahl's research group

Our research is focused on understanding the doors and windows of our cells in the form of membrane proteins in general, and in particular the functions of ion channels and pumps that transport ions to make our nervous system work.