JUN 9, 2025
Educator’s Month: Drug discovery in the classroom
In this webinar, we’ll discuss the growing significance of in silico protein-ligand docking underscores its importance as a requisite skill for graduating biochemists. Nevertheless, existing software platforms pose difficulties: they are either characterized by limited user-friendliness, demanding the utilization of disparate programs for individual tasks, or represent software packages with prohibitive costs for undergraduate teaching. Schrödinger’s Maestro offers a promising alternative, providing a comprehensive software suite at a nominal cost for students, thereby facilitating their initial engagement with the drug discovery process. The subsequent discussion will outline the implementation of Schrödinger’s educational web platform for initiating drug discovery activities in the biochemistry classroom.
Our Speaker
Kari Stone
Associate Professor, Lewis University
Kari Stone is an associate professor of chemistry at Lewis University where she teaches biochemistry courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She received her Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University in 2008 under the direction of Michael Green in the field of bioinorganic chemistry. After receiving her Ph.D., she transitioned into synthetic inorganic chemistry at the University of California-Irvine as a postdoctoral associate with Andy Borovik. Kari has been teaching in higher education since 2009 maintaining an active research program with undergraduate and graduate students. Her research interests involve greener alternatives to synthetic processes making her projects highly collaborative focusing on biocatalysis, drug discovery, and environmental sustainability. You can find more information on her research interests here: www.stonelaboratory.com. She serves as a chemistry division representative of the Council on Undergraduate Research.