Rhiju Das

Honors and Awards

• Career Award at the Scientific Interface, Burroughs-Wellcome Foundation (2008-present)

Professional Education

Web Site Links

• Das Lab

Research Interests

Rhiju Das strives to predict how sequence codes for structure in proteins, nucleic acids, and heteropolymers whose folds have yet to be explored. The Das group uses new computational and experimental tools to tackle the de novo modeling of protein and RNA folds, the high-throughput structure mapping of riboswitches and random RNAs, and the design of self-knotting and self-crystallizing nucleic acids.

Publications

• Structural inference of native and partially folded RNA by high-throughput contact mapping. Das R, Kudaravalli M, Jonikas M, Laederach A, Fong R, Schwans JP, Baker D, Piccirilli JA, Altman RB, Herschlag D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008; 105 (11): 4144-9
• Remeasuring the double helix. Mathew-Fenn RS, Das R, Harbury PA. Science. 2008; 322 (5900): 446-9
• Macromolecular modeling with rosetta. Das R, Baker D. Annu Rev Biochem. 2008: 77 363-82
• Automated de novo prediction of native-like RNA tertiary structures. Das R, Baker D. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007; 104 (37): 14664-9
• High-resolution structure prediction and the crystallographic phase problem. Qian B, Raman S, Das R, Bradley P, McCoy AJ, Read RJ, Baker D. Nature. 2007; 450 (7167): 259-64