Patrik D'haeseleer

Patrik D'haeseleer is a research scientist at anational laboratory, where he has worked on computational biology of biofuels and host-pathogen systems. He has a PhD in Computer Science from UNM developing early tools for large scale gene expression analysis, and did a postdoc at the Church Lab in Harvard on systems biology. He has 4+ years experience using state-of the-art protein structure prediction and design tools such as TrRosetta, RoseTTAFold, AlphaFold, ESMFold, TRDiffusion. Patrik co-founded Counter Culture Labs 10 years ago, a community lab for biotechnology in Oakland, where he currently serves as Secretary, leads community projects, and teaches computational biology, microbiology, synthetic biology, and art & science classes.