The Frontiers of Science symposium series was created as the first program of the National Academy of Sciences targeted specifically for early career scientists. Frontiers was designed to bridge the ...

SPEAKER: Improving SARS-CoV-2 Drug Development: Using AI and Molecular Dynamics to Understand Mutations and Resistance, Yang Li, Global Health Discovery Institute (GHDDI) SPEAKER: Image-based Deepp ...

Marcia McNutt is a geophysicist and president of the National Academy of Sciences. From 2013 to 2016, she served as editor-in-chief of the Science journals. Prior to joining Science, she was director ...

The memorial to Albert Einstein, situated in an elm and holly grove in the southwest corner of the Academy grounds, was unveiled at the Academy's annual meeting, April 22, 1979, in honor of the ...

Michel Georges is Professor in Genetics and Genomics at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Liège in Belgium. He heads the Unit of Genetics of the GIGA Research Institute in the ...

Sam Gellman is the Ralph F. Hirschmann Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. His laboratory’s contributions include insights on the origin of protein folding preferences and ...

My major research topic is to develop the nearly neutral theory of molecular evolution. The theory contends that interaction of random genetic drift and natural selection is important for evolution of ...

My general areas of research are evolutionary biology, organic geochemistry, biochemical evolution, paleobotany and palynology, microbiology and phycology, historical geology, lunar studies, and ...

Gary Yellen is a biophysicist and neuroscientist recognized for his work on the moving parts of ion channel proteins and on the dynamics of neural metabolism. He earned his AB in Biochemical Sciences ...

Current research is focused on a netowrk of transcription factors that are essential for normal cellular functions and whose dysregulation is profoundly involved in the etiology of a wide spectrum of ...

Professor Wofsy's research focuses on the chemical composition of the atmosphere. His current projects include measurements of atmosphere-biosphere exchanges of energy, water vapor, and gases such as ...

As a theoretical computer scientist, I am motivated by real world challenges on the one hand and the beauty of mathematics and abstraction on the other. I have worked at various times in cryptography, ...