Rosetta Commons David Baker Nobel celebration Oct 14, 2024

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Sorry I missed the party! I was in a 3rd world country. I'll add my 2-bits here. I was David's 2nd (?) postdoc and knew David from before UW, from UCSF. David rescued me from Nicaragua and pulled me back into science. He passed to me the project of Karen Han to find, cluster and train short peptide sequence motifs. I also wrote the code for stringing together a sequence given backbone and sidechain dihedral angles, which ended up in Rosetta. I remember the group meeting where David excitededly put the 3-helix bundle on screen that was created by Kim's early version of the just-named Rosetta. At the top of the fortran code Kim wrote "This program folds proteins." Thanks for eveything, David.