Dr. Brad Dickson received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Clemson University, where he studied enhanced sampling algorithms for molecular dynamics simulations. After studying path sampling techniques at UT Austin, in 2009 Brad began working with adaptive bias methods as a postdoctoral researcher at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. Brad has deployed these adaptive schemes to probe kinase dynamics while at Purdue University, and to inform drug discovery efforts against epigenetic targets while working in the Center for Integrative Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. In 2015, Dr. Dickson joined the Rothbart Laboratory at Van Andel Institute (VAI), where he used computational biophysics to inform on the complex mechanics underlying chromatin accessibility, interaction and function. He is now a staff scientist at VAI.