Molecular Modelling: Advances in Biomolecular and Materials Modelling

Professor Michelle Coote is a graduate of the University of New South Wales, where she completed a B.Sc. (Hons) in industrial chemistry (1995), followed by a Ph.D. in polymer chemistry (2000). Following postdoctoral work at the University of Durham, UK, she joined the Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University in 2001, initially as a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Leo Radom. She established her own research group in 2004 and has recently taken up an ARC Future Fellowship. She has published extensively in the fields of polymer chemistry, radical chemistry and computational quantum chemistry, and is a member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Free-Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology. She has received many awards, including the 2001 IUPAC prize for young scientists, the RACI Cornforth medal (2000), Rennie medal (2006) and David Sangster Polymer Science and Technology Achievement Award (2010), and the Le Fevre Memorial Prize of the Australian Academy of Science (2010).

Elizabeth Yuriev is a Senior Lecturer at the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University. Her research interests include molecular modelling of protein-carbohydrate interactions and G Protein-Coupled Receptors. She is a Secretary of the Association of Molecular Modellers of Australasia (AMMA).