Dr. Roman Affentranger

Service Manager for Chemistry Applications at Roche Pharma Research & Early Development Informatics (pREDi)

Senior Consultant Life Science Information Management

Involved in the scientific coordination and project management of the EU-funded projects ToxBank (part of SEURAT-1), OpenTox and SYNERGY, in particular in coordinating the software development, the setup of project communication resources, the organization and facilitation of both internal and cross-project working group meetings, the planning of project meetings and workshops, and in dissemination, reporting and tutorial activities.

Collaborator in European FP6 project "BacAbs", Collaborator in European FP7 project "AntiPathoGn", Collaborator in Spanisch MEC project "DrugsForAgeing", Carried out independent computational research projects in the fields of protein dynamics, polypeptide folding, drug discovery

Application of Hamiltonian Replica Exchange Methodology for the Refinement of Low-Resolution Protein Structures

Molecular dynamics simulations of proteins, Hamiltonian replica exchange simulations, Protein/peptide folding, Protein structure refinement. Thesis title: "A Novel Hamiltonian Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics Protocol to Enhance Protein Conformational Space Sampling"

Molecular dynamics simulations, protein folding. Diploma thesis title: "Free-energy Landscapes of Molten Globules"