Zan Luthey-Schulten
Murchison-Mallory Endowed Chair in Chemistry
Director, NSF Science and Technology Center
for Quantitative Cell Biology
Kevin Tan, Graduate Student in Chemistry
Scientific studies improve researchers’ understanding of the world and often translate into breakthroughs in medicine. However, communicating these results to wider audiences is often difficult because of the complexity of the topics. To bridge this gap, Zan Luthey-Schulten and her group developed CraftCells, a world in the block-based video game Minecraft where the researchers translated 3D cell data into Minecraft objects for player exploration.
Zan Luthey-Schulten’s research interests include determining the rules of life for a minimal bacterial cell and computational studies of biomolecular energy landscapes. Her interdisciplinary work connects her with Biological Physics, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, Physics, and Theoretical and Computational Biophysics.
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