<p>Promita Chakraborty, PhD, is a scientist who focusses on building precision physical models for use as scientific tools in biology for discovery, insight and innovation. These physical models are built around the current unsolved scientific problems. Her work on Peppytide focuses on the Protein Folding Problem.</p> <p>She is the founder of Quezylab &nbsp;with a broad vision to design seamless interactive modeling and computing environments between physical manipulatives of biological systems. With the help of 3D printing technology, she invented Peppytides and initiated a new field called Physical Biomodeling as a part of her doctoral work. Peppytide is a to-scale physical model of the polypeptide chain that can fold into various motifs and secondary &amp; tertiary structures of proteins. Because of its flexibility and accurate scaling, Peppytide is a model that is the first of its kind. Previously, she had worked at the Molecular Foundry at Berkeley Lab (LBNL). She coined the terms "Peppytide", "PeppyChain" and "Physical Biomodeling". She received her doctoral degree in computer science in 2014 from Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg. Recently she has received Berkeley Lab's 2014 Director's Award for Exceptional Achievement, and Maker of Merit Blue Ribbon (2015) for her work on Peppytide and PeppyChain. Her work has been covered in MAKE Magazine and Berkeley Science Review. Homepage: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(35, 37, 39); display: inline !important; float: none;">http://people.cs.vt.edu/~promita9/ </span></p>