Alberto Bartesaghi

Alberto is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Computer Science, Biochemistry, and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. He is a pioneer in developing computational methods to solve structures of macromolecular complexes by single particle cryo-EM and cryo-ET. He solved many influential structures including those of CRISPR/Cas9 complexes, GPCR/G-protein complexes, HIV-1/SARS glyco-proteins, and α-synuclein fibers. He is also interested more broadly in machine learning, computer vision, image processing, and high-performance computing. He received the “Norman P. Salzman Memorial Award in Virology” from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD for his work on the molecular architecture of native HIV-1 gp120 trimers.