Daisuke Kihara

Title:

Professor

PhD Granting Institution:

Kyoto University, Japan

Contact:

Email Address: dkihara@purdue.edu
Office Phone: 765-496-2284
Lab Website Link: https://kiharalab.org/

Primary Training Group:

Biomolecular Structure and Biophysics

Secondary Training Groups:

Computational and Systems Biology

Research Areas:

protein bioinformatics, computational biology, structural biology

Current Projects:

Protein Bioinformatics. Our lab develops and applies computational tools for building protein 3D structure models, protein complexes, structure modeling for cryo-electron microscope density data, drug screening, and protein function prediction. We use various machine learning and computational biophysics approaches in the tools.

Importance of Interdisciplinary Research:

I have a joint appointment between Department of Biological Sciences and Department of Computer Science and have students from both departments. We develop and use computational methods, recently using machine learning techniques, for solving biological problems. Therefore we are truly interdisciplinary.