We invite you to the launch of the new NCCR lecture series hosted by junior scientists, featuring a combined talk and workshop by Prof. Thomas R. Ward (UniBas, Director of NCCR MSE) on artificial enzyme catalysis.
Prof. Philip A. Cole, Director of the Department of Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, will give a talk entitled “Chemical approaches to sorting out protein post-translational modifications”.
Our next speaker, Jeremy W. Thorner, will speak about “A Protein Kinase Network Controls Plasma Membrane Lipid Homeostasis”.
Angela Gronenborn is an internationally renowned specialist in the application of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy for investigating structure, dynamics and folding of biological macromolecules
Dorothea Fiedler, Professor of Chemical Biology and newly appointed Director at the Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), will give a talk about:”Elucidating the functions and mechanisms of inositol pyrophosphate messengers with chemical tools”.
Donald Hilvert, Full Professor of Organic Chemistry and Head of the Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences at ETH Zurich, will talk about: “Design and optimization of artificial enzymes: nearer to nature”.
Dr. Howard Hang, from the Rockefeller University, will give a talk about “Chemical reporters for exploring host-pathogen interactions”.
Luke Lavis, group leader at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will talk about “Building brighter fluorophores with azetidine”.
Our next speaker will be Shana O. Kelley, a scientist and Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Pharmacy and Faculty of Medicine.
Anne Spang, Professor of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at the Biozentrum University of Basel, will talk about “Regulation of intracellular transport”.
