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”