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Instructor

Brett Barbaro Ph.D.

Consultant, Scripps Research Institute

Bio

Brett Barbaro is a consultant at Scripps Research Institute where he is currently working on building physical and atomic-resolution computer models of biological systems. He has over 15 years of laboratory experience and has published numerous articles and several book chapters. He is a graduate of Harvard University’s biochemistry program and received his Ph.D. from the University of California Irvine, where he studied the molecular mechanisms of Huntington’s Disease.

Quote

"The scientist…studies [nature] because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living." H. Poincare

- Brett Barbaro