Dr. Pande's Principal Reseach Interests:

The central theme of my research is to use theoretical models to understand the physical properties of biological molecules and biomaterials, such as proteins, nucleic acids, and lipid membranes. In particular, I am interested in the self-assembly properties of biomolecules: for example, how do protein and RNA molecules fold and how do lipid vesicles form and fuse? As these phenomena are complex, spanning from the molecular to mesoscopic length scales and the nanosecond to millisecond timescales, my research employs a variety of statistical mechanical analytic models as well as Monte Carlo , Langevin dynamics, and molecular dynamics computer simulations on workstations and massively parallel supercomputers, superclusters, and large-scale worldwide distributed computing (see http://folding.stanford.edu).