Name: Lounge Ligands
Start: 2022-12-02T18:00:00-08:00
End: 2022-12-02T21:00:00-08:00
Location: UCSF Mission Bay, Genentech Hall Atrium

Lounge Ligands

Lounge Ligands is a new art installation by QBI artist-in-residence John Walter

UCSF Mission Bay, Genentech Hall Atrium

Lounge Ligands is a new art installation by QBI artist-in-residence John Walter, hosted by Professor Brian Shoichet. Located in Mission Bay, San Francisco, Lounge Ligands is comprised of a bespoke bar, hosted by the artist, serving free gin and tonics, and decorated with a series of new ligand-inspired quilts, videos and a live band. Lounge Ligands builds on Walter’s longstanding interest in using hospitality as a device within art, to bring people of different disciplines and sensibilities together to talk openly and exchange ideas. This project has been inspired by John’s interactions with members of Shoichet Lab and John Irwin. In this new body of work, he seeks to apply what he has learned about ligand design, docking and receptor interaction to his picture making practice. Ligands are chemical messengers that change the way protein work. There are billions and billions (and billions) of potential ligands, but only a few thousand of the special kind of ligands we call pharmaceutical drugs.  Our research looks at billions of ligands, in the computer, identifying ones that might modify proteins to cure disease, so we can test them.

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