7–11 Jul 2025
Palazzo Consolati - University of Trento
Europe/Rome timezone

Bridging Scales in Molecular Simulations: Data-Driven Characterization of Free Energy Landscapes

11 Jul 2025, 09:00
50m
Palazzo Consolati - University of Trento

Palazzo Consolati - University of Trento

via S. Maria Maddalena 1, Trento (Italy)
Oral contribution

Speaker

Oleksandra Kukharenko (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research)

Description

Understanding biomolecular behavior across multiple spatial and temporal scales remains a central challenge in molecular biophysics. Atomistic simulations offer fine-grained detail, but are computationally expensive, while coarse-grained models provide efficiency at the cost of resolution. Bridging these scales requires robust frameworks to translate between models and ensure consistent thermodynamic behavior across representations.

In this talk, I will present recent work on data-driven characterization of free energy landscapes, highlighting how machine learning and dimensionality reduction techniques can be used to identify relevant collective variables and thermodynamic basins from simulation data. I will then discuss how these insights can be transferred between atomistic and coarse-grained descriptions, enabling multiscale modeling of complex systems such as multy-body biomolecules.

Author

Oleksandra Kukharenko (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research)

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