11 Jun Telluride Science Town Talks: “Animating the Invisible,” Molecular Movies, 6/17!
This coming week the 2025 Telluride Science Town Talks series continues with “Animating Invisible Molecular Movies & the Science They Reveal,” featuring Dr. Steve Corelli. The event takes place Tuesday, June 17, 6:30 pm; doors, 6 p.m., at the Telluride Conference Center in Mountain Village.
Town Talks are FREE and open to the public.
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The 2025 Telluride Science Town Talks series is presented by Alpine Bank with additional support from the Telluride Mountain Village Owner’s Association.
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When was the last time you watched a movie?
Movies tell stories – whether it’s a gritty historical drama or a teen vampire bromance – there are few better ways to absorb content than by watching events unfold on the silver screen (or in the comfort of your home).
Movies make us think. They make us feel. They grab our attention and so we engage.
A fact of life that includes “molecular movies” such as those being made by Dr. Steve Corcelli and his team at Notre Dame. Only instead of love triangles or superheroes, this subspecies of movies are about the microscopic ways drug molecules bind to their targets.
Drilling down, that means molecular movies are cutting-edge visualizations that capture the motion of molecules in real time, allowing scientists to observe chemical and biological processes at the atomic level.
On June 17, Telluride Science hosts Steve Corcelli on the subject of “Animating the Invisible: Molecular Movies and the Science They Reveal.”
During his talk, Corcelli plans to display animated models that bring us up close and personal with chemical reactions on a molecular level. Intimate knowledge of such processes should enhance our knowledge of, for one example, such subjects as headline diseases in ways no textbook ever could.
The result? With time, better tools to conquer these scourges.
Bottom line: From more targeted, even customized cancer treatments to potential cures for various forms of dementia including Alzheimer’s, molecular movies can and will help scientists design the next generation of life-saving drugs.
Dr. Steve Corelli, more:
October 7, 2024; Steve Corcelli (Photo by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame)
Dr Steve Corcelli is the Chair of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame.
In July, he will assume his new role as Interim Dean of the College of Science.
Corcelli earned his doctorate in chemistry from Yale University in 2001, and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin.
Corelli and his team research molecular dynamics and vibrational spectroscopy to understand how solvents like water and ionic liquids interact with biomolecules such as DNA and proteins.
“As human beings, when we watch chemical reactions happen in the form of these little movies, scientists like me and the members of my team better understand what’s really happening in ways we might otherwise never wholly comprehend…”
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