Dr Kadi Liis Saar

I am a Research Fellow at St. John's College, Senior Schmidt Science Fellow, and post-doctoral researcher at the Centre for Misfolding Diseases, Department of Chemistry. My research focusses on developing new experimental and predictive computational methods for examining the behaviour of biological molecules and systems, in particular proteins.

Proteins are the executive molecules of life that through diverse set of highly integrated and tightly regulated interactions set the molecular basis for our well-being. Yet the diverse and dynamic nature of proteins has made it challenging to devise methods that could be effectively used for understanding their roles in human health and disease. By bringing data science, machine learning, computational biology and chemistry approaches together with experimental sciences, I develop new in silico capabilities for probing the key molecular interactions that underpin biological function. I am particularly interested in modelling biomolecular phase separation and condensation processes and in understanding the biological rules and sequence grammar that govern the formation of such condensates. I further aim to understand how these systems can be modulated by small molecules as this development could open up the possibility for discovering therapeutics against biomolecular condensates and biological targets that have remained undruggable using conventional approaches.

I have co-authored over 40 peer-reviewed publications, book chapters and patents. Full list of my publications is available from: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=7OQGF4oAAAAJ