Christian Sustay Martinez
Hello everyone!
My name is Christian Sustay and I am currently a PhD student at the Technical University of Munich in the group for Theoretical Biophysics - Molecular Dynamics.
Interests
At the moment I am mostley interested in
- Enhanced sampling techniques
- DNA interactions and deformation
- Statistical mechanics for biomolecules
Programming Languages
For the most part, I carry out my work using Python and Julia.
Contact Info
If you are interested in anything of what I do, please feel free to contact me at christian.sustay@tum.de.
Session
Protein-DNA binding can depend on sequence changes even outside direct complex contact regions. While an MD-based protocol can capture this indirect readout with high correlation to experiment, its cost limits large-scale use. We present a Julia package to estimate DNA deformation free energies with practical analytical models optimized from simulation trajectories. These models aim to explain these affinity differences at much lower cost, enabling broader screening or sequence optimization.