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Symposium

1st October 2012, 15:00 - 18:00 | public event

Protein aggregation as a cause of neurodegenerative disease

Speakers:

Regina Murphy
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

“Transthyretin’s Regulatory Role in Beta-Amyloid Aggregation and Neurotoxicity”

Simon Ebbinghaus
Physical Chemistry II, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

“Early events of protein aggregation”

Tali Gidalevitz
Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

“Natural genetic variation and destabilizing polymorphisms modulate polyglutamine aggregation and toxicity”