The Department of Physiology and Biochemistry is organising a research symposium to inaugurate the launch of the B.Sc.(Hons) Medical Biochemistry.
The symposium will be held on Thursday 26 October, from 13:00 to 17:00, in the new Anatomy Lecture Room (nALR).
The symposium will be held on Thursday 26 October, from 13:00 to 17:00, in the new Anatomy Lecture Room (nALR).
Two distinguished guest speakers will be delivering the plenary talks:
- Prof. Sheena Radford FMedBio, FRS
- Prof. Alan Berry FRSC, FRB
Prof. Sheena Radford is Professor of Biophysics in the Faculty of Biological Sciences, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Director of the Astbury Centre for Molecular Structural Biology at the University of Leeds. Prof Radford is internationally distinguished for her seminal contributions to understanding how the dynamical properties of proteins enable them to fold and function biologically, or to misfold and cause degenerative diseases.
Prof. Alan Berry is Professor of Molecular Enzymology in the Faculty of Biological Sciences, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the Astbury Centre for Molecular Structural Biology at the University of Leeds. Prof Berry’s interests include the production of enzymes that can carry out unnatural, but desirable reactions, through the use of protein engineering and directed evolution techniques.
Programme
Prof. Alan Berry is Professor of Molecular Enzymology in the Faculty of Biological Sciences, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology and the Astbury Centre for Molecular Structural Biology at the University of Leeds. Prof Berry’s interests include the production of enzymes that can carry out unnatural, but desirable reactions, through the use of protein engineering and directed evolution techniques.
Programme
13:15 Prof. Sheena Radford
How to Assemble a Fibril: A Feat of Folding
How to Assemble a Fibril: A Feat of Folding
13:45 Prof. Alan Berry
Extending protein molecular recognition with a larger amino acid alphabet
14:15 Prof. Gary Hunter
What we are learning from proteins
14:30 Prof. Mauro Pessia
K+ channels biophysics: Insights from channelopathies
14:45 Prof. Josanne Vassallo
Genetics and pathophysiology of pituitary tumours
15:00 Prof. Anthony Fenech
Molecules, drugs and genes
Coffee break
15:15 - 15:40
Coffee break
15:15 - 15:40
15:45 Dr Ruben Cauchi
Born to Fly: What can Drosophila tell us about Motor Neuron Disease?
16:00 Prof. Pierre Schembri Wismayer
Chemical and physical methods of modifying of cell fate in wounding and cancer
16:15 Dr Joseph Borg
Uncovering disease-causing DNA mutations through clinical exome sequencing
16:30 Dr Byron Baron
Characterisation of chaperone lysine methyl transferases
16:45 Dr David Saliba
The Immunological synapse: How the immune system talks to itself
