Valerie D. Daggett
EducationUniversity of California, San Francisco
Known forLarge-scale simulations of protein folding
Scientific career
InstitutionsStanford University
ThesisMolecular modelling of peptides and proteins (1990)
Doctoral advisorIrwin Kuntz, Peter Kollman
Other academic advisorsMichael Levitt

Valerie Daggett is a professor of bioengineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, United States.

Education and career

Daggett has a B.S. from Reed College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Francisco, advised by Irwin Kuntz and Peter Kollman, and subsequently held a postdoctoral position at Stanford University with Michael Levitt, a co-recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[1]

As of 2021, she is also the chief executive officer of AltPep, a biomedical startup that was a spinoff from her research at the University of Washington.[2]

Research

Her laboratory focuses on work in molecular dynamics simulations of proteins and other biomolecules. Daggett is well known for large-scale simulations of protein folding, especially unfolding, and native state dynamics through her "dynameomics" project.[3][4] In 2005, the Daggett laboratory was awarded a supercomputing grant by the U.S. Department of Energy, which was renewed for almost two million processor-hours in 2006;[5] the group has also participated in Microsoft Research high-performance computing projects.[6]

Awards and honors

In 2011, Daggett was named a fellow of the Biophysical Society.[7] Daggett was one of two University of Washington scientists named 2015 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering fellows.[8]

References

  1. Daggett, Valerie. "Daggett Research Group". Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  2. "Team | AltPep". www.altpep.com. Retrieved 2021-11-17.
  3. Doerr, Alison (2010). "A database of dynamics". Nature Methods. 7 (6): 426. doi:10.1038/nmeth0610-426. PMID 20524218.
  4. Van Der Kamp, M. W.; Schaeffer, R. D.; Jonsson, A. L.; Scouras, A. D.; Simms, A. M.; Toofanny, R. D.; Benson, N. C.; Anderson, P. C.; Merkley, E. D.; Rysavy, S.; Bromley, D.; Beck, D. A. C.; Daggett, V. (2010). "Dynameomics: A Comprehensive Database of Protein Dynamics". Structure. 18 (4): 423–435. doi:10.1016/j.str.2010.01.012. PMC 2892689. PMID 20399180.
  5. DOE press release on the awarding of INCITE grants. 22 Dec 2004. Access date 17 Jan 2007.
  6. Microsoft Corporation. "GrayWulf Takes Byte Out of Data Overload". Microsoft Research. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
  7. "2 0 1 9 H I S T O R I C A L I N F O R M A T I O N" (PDF). Retrieved November 17, 2021.
  8. Wright, Laura Elizabeth (26 January 2015). "Suzie Pun and Valerie Daggett elected AIMBE Fellows". University of Washington Department of Engineering. Retrieved 10 February 2015.
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