Welcome! My name is Tarak Upadhyaya. I am a third
year undergraduate student at
MIT, Department
of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science.
I have spent the past three summers (2004, 2005, 2006) working with
Professor Jeffrey
Gray
here at
Johns
Hopkins University, Department of Chemical and
Biomolecular Engineering.
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Current
Research Overview
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Interactions between and within proteins are important to a
variety of biological functions, including
immunologic recognition, metabolic pathways, DNA
replication, progression through the cell cycle
and protein synthesis. Computational modeling of these
interactions plays an important role in the
understanding of how proteins work, and can give
insight into how to develop tailored biomolecular
components or nano-devices.
Current work concerns the mechanisms of
allostery. I am working with
Michael
Daily, a fellow member of Graylab, on
characterizing the conformational changes in
proteins that allow for observed allosteric
behavior.
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Profile
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Home Town: Greenville, SC
High School: Southside High, '04
School: MIT
Year: Class of 2008
Major(s): EE & CS
Research Experience: 4 years
Research Interests: Computer Systems &
Architecture,
Computational Biology,
Computational Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence,
Robotics, Cybernetics/Bionics, Brain and Cognitive
Sciences
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