Rafael Najmanovich

B.Sc. Molecular Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brasil, 1990-1994
M.Sc. Physics/Statistical Mechanics, University of São Paulo Brasil, 1994-1996
Ph.D Physics/Biology, Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel, 1996-2003
PDF European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge UK, 2003-2008

Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry
Faculté de médecine et des sciences de la santé
Université de Sherbrooke
3001, 12e Avenue Nord
Sherbrooke (Québec) J1H 5N4
Canada
Email: Rafael.Najmanovich@usherbrooke.ca
Website: http://bcb.med.usherbrooke.ca

Research Interests

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Structural Biology
Molecular Recognition
Systems Biology

Current Research Projects

Development Ligand-protein Docking methods
Simulation of dynamic aspects of protein structure with Normal Mode Analysis
Dynamics aspects of GPCR structure/function
Development of methods for the detection of binding site similarities
Development of anti-microbials

Tools and Expertises

Bioinformatics, molecular recognition, docking, binding site similarities, chemoinformatics, family-wide analysis of structure function relationships, ligand-protein binding.