Zaida Luthey-Schulten’s research lab investigates the rules of life for a minimal bacteria cell; GPU-based simulations of stochastic/deterministic processes in bacterial and eukaryal cells at biologically relevant length, time, and concentration scales; computational studies of biomolecular energy landscapes to explore the evolution of structure, folding and function; statistical methods of protein folding–thermodynamics and kinetics; design of optimized energy functions for protein structure prediction; and, structural genomics of metabolic pathways.
Luthey-Schulten is an affiliate of Biological Physics, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, Physics, and Theoretical and Computational Biophysics.
Professor Schulten received a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Southern California in 1969, a M.S. in Chemistry from Harvard University in 1972, and a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1975. From 1975 to 1980 she was a Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, and from 1980 to 1985 a Research Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Physics at the Technical University of Munich.