The BELGIAN BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY

 


    

 

The BELGIAN BIOPHYSICAL SOCIETY

Further supported by the FNRS Graduate School

“Structure and Function of Biological

Macromolecules, Bioinformatics and Modelling”

ORGANIZES THE 19th ONE-DAY SYMPOSIUM

on

PROTEIN FOLDING & ASSEMBLY

 ON FRIDAY THE 2nd OF SEPTEMBER 2022

 AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LIEGE

AMPHITHEATRE 204, “Amphithéâtres de l’Europe”

DOMAINE UNIVERSITAIRE DU SART TILMAN

BATIMENT B4

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09:45-10:00 WELCOME

Chair : Kerensa Broersen (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

10:00-10:50 Laura Itzhaki (Pharm. Dept., University of Cambridge, UK)

“Engineering the folding and function of tandem-repeat proteins:

Teaching old proteins new tricks”

10:50-11:20 COFFEE BREAK

11:20-12:10 Guillaume Roussel (Mol. Bacteriol., Rega Institute, KU Leuven, Belgium)

“Integrated denaturase, holdase and foldase activities in a secretory chaperone”

12:10-13:00 Jean-François Collet (WELBIO, de Duve Inst., UC Louvain, Belgique)

Rescuing chaperonin substrates from pre-folding oxidation

13:00-14:00 LUNCH

14:00-14 :50 Rob Gilbert (Division of Structural Biology, Oxford, UK)

Protein refolding in pore-forming protein mechanisms

14 :50-15 :40 Arnout Voet (Lab. Biomolecular Modelling and Design, KU Leuven, Belgium)

Design of symmetric proteins: from probes to study protein evolution to

building blocks of novel materials”

15:45 RECEPTION

 

Contact: Prof. André Matagne (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Registration is required. Admission is free for members; non-members of the Biophysical Society should pay their membership to the account of the Belgian Biophysical Society (15 EUR, see http://www.biophysics.be)