Journal of Proteomics & Bioinformatics
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Volkhard Helms

Biography

Volkhard Helms has been Professor of Bioinformatics in the Center of Bioinformatics Saar since 2003 and is also a member of the CBI Saar Directorate. He studied physics in Freiburg and Munich and obtained his PhD at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg in 1996. He then carried out post- doctoral work at the University of California, San Diego, and went on to lead a research group in theoretical biophysics at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt. In 2001 he was selected as an EMBO Young Investigator.

Research Interest

• Biomolecular Simulations

• Protein Protein Interactions

• Photophysics of Green Fluorescent Protein

• Development of mesoscale force fields

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