Dr. GPCR Ecosystem
GPCRdb for beginners
About this episode
David Gloriam (Head of GPCRdb) will give a brief overview of GPCRdb resources for data, analysis, and experiment design. He will also share the future vision and show how the community can get involved. Albert Kooistra (Lead Developer) will give a live demonstration of the most popular resources.
Join us to learn more about this fantastic resource and how you can use it to accelerate your research
About Dr. David Gloriam
David obtained his Ph.D. from Uppsala University in Sweden where he worked on the bioinformatic identification of 24 novels human G protein-coupled receptors. He then completed two postdocs in the UK at the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute and GlaxoSmithKline. In 2018 he joined the University of Copenhagen as a Professor in Computational Receptor Biology. He leads a research cluster for GPCR function and drug discovery and a Pharmaceutical Data Science unit. His group also runs the GPCRdb database where ~4,000 researchers each month retrieve reference data and access online tools for analysis, visualization, and experiment design.
Dr. David Gloriam on the web
Dr. Albert Kooistra
Albert J. Kooistra is an assistant professor in the Computational Receptor Biology group of prof. David Gloriam at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). Here he leads the GPCRdb development team and actively contributes to the development of new GPCRdb tools and resources.
He is a Ph.D. graduate in Computational Medicinal Chemistry from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands) with a track record in structural bioinformatics, computer-aided drug discovery & design, and research software & database development. Among other things, his research on GPCRs comprises structural analyses, structure-based virtual screening, chemogenomic analyses, and ligand design.
Albert is furthermore a management committee member of the ERNEST consortium, a European research network on signal transduction, and founder and developer of the structural kinase database KLIFS.
Dr. Albert Kooistra on the Web
