The Protein Folding Problem (inspiration, process)

Before I started working on my recent project, I wouldn't have even known about "the protein folding problem"--but now I even find it inspirational and very interesting.

Many of the things Ken Dill talks about in this lecture are being built into the choreography for the performance "Break it Down":
The protein folding problem: a major conundrum of science: Ken Dill at TEDxSBU