Dr. Amit Kessel's Homepage

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WHAT I DO:

• Co-Founder and Head of Computational R&D at Es-is Technologies Ltd.
• Teaching (College)
• Developing Courses (Biochemistry, Proteins, Molecular modeling)
• Writing

(for more details, see my CV and Bio).

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MY SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS:

• Computational Biophysics
• Structure-Function Relationship in Proteins
• Antimicrobial Peptides
• Enzyme Engineering

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THIS WEBSITE:

is intended to provide useful information to college or high school students & teachers, as well as to novice scientists. The topics covered are:

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I. Biochemistry & Cell biology

1. The molecules of life

2.  Proteins: Nature’s own nano-machines

3. Amino acids: Chemistry & Biochemistry

4. Biochemistry & molecular biology animations

5. Online exams in Biochemistry & Cell Biology

6. The living cell gallery

7. Research focus: antimicrobial peptides

8. Science links

9. The work of Linus Pauling

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II. Biophysics & Bioinformatics

1. Molecular biophysics

2. Computational methods & tools in biophysics

3. People in biophysics

4. Databases & bioinformatic tools

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Much of the information in this website is taken from my book, co-written with Prof. Nir Ben-Tal (Tel-Aviv Univ.):

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