“Disordered Proteins and their Dynamic Complexes in Biological Regulation”

Prof. Julie Forman-Kay (University of Toronto).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 12 July 2010, 12:00-13:00

From pathology to function: the many faces of fibrillation

Dr. Daniel Otzen (Aarhus University).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 11 June 2010, 10:30-11:30

From pathology to function: the many faces of fibrillation

Dr. Daniel Otzen (Aarhus University).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 11 June 2010, 10:30-11:30

TBA

Dr. Monika Fuxreiter (Institute of Enzymology, BRC, Hungarian Academy of Sciences).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 02 June 2010, 10:30-11:30

NMR Toolkit for studying biomolecular folding

Dr. Danny Hsu (University of Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 26 May 2010, 10:30-11:30

Fibril fragmentation in amyloid assembly and cytotoxicity - When size matters

Dr. Wei-Feng Xue (Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, Leeds).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 19 May 2010, 10:30-11:30

Evolutionary strategies to prevent protein aggregation

Dr. Annalisa Pastore (National Institute for Medical Research, London).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 12 May 2010, 10:30-11:30

NMR studies of a helical 7-transmembrane receptor

Dr. Daniel Nietlispach (University of Cambridge).

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 05 May 2010, 10:30-11:30

Adapting to unfolded protein load in the endoplasmic reticulum

Prof. David Ron (University of Cambridge).

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 21 April 2010, 10:30-11:30

Do cells care about physics?

Dr Jochen Guck, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 17 March 2010, 10:30-11:30

Cyclophilin A: HIV-1 cofactor or antiviral?

Dr Leo James, MRC-LMB, Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 10 March 2010, 10:30-11:30

The highs and lows of enzyme catalysis

Dr Colin Jackson, Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble, France.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 10:30-11:30

Sequencing genomes and sequences in the genome: from chemistry to medicine

Herchel Smith Professor of Medicinal Chemistry- Inaugural Talk

Prof. Shankar Balasubramanian, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Wolfson Lecture Theater, Department of Chemistry.

Monday 22 February 2010, 17:00-18:00

Advances in protein structure determination using NMR chemical shifts.

Dr Michele Vendruscolo, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 17 February 2010, 10:30-11:30

PDI and oxidative protein folding: conformations, dynamics and substrate interactions

Prof. Robert Freedman, University of Warwick.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 10 February 2010, 10:30-11:30

Protein misfolding in Alzheimer's disease: a neuroscientist takes lessons in biophysics

Canceled

Dr Leila Luheshi, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 03 February 2010, 10:30-11:30

Information-driven modelling of biomolecular complexes.

Prof. Alexandre Bonvin, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 27 January 2010, 10:30-11:30

“Understanding protein aggregation in bacteria”

Dr Salvador Ventura, Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 09 December 2009, 10:30-11:30

“Evolution & Dynamics of Protein Complexes”

Dr Sarah Teichmann, MRC-LMB, Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 02 December 2009, 10:30-11:30

“Towards a quantitative assessment of amyloid formation in vitro and in vivo by mulitparametric fluorescence microscopy”

Dr Carlos Bertoncini, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 10:30-11:30

“Structural disorder and induced folding within the replicative complex of measles virus: experimental assessment and functional implications”.

Dr Sonia Longhi, Universities of Aix - Marseilles.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 18 November 2009, 10:30-11:30

“Structure and dynamics of globular and disordered proteins from Residual Dipolar Couplings”

Dr Xavier Salvatella, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 11 November 2009, 11:30-12:30

“Peptides in solution, aggregates, and membranes: 2DIR spectroscopy as a probe of structure and function.”

Prof James Skinner, University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 04 November 2009, 10:30-11:30

“Dissecting the membrane dynamics of amyloid oligomers at a single molecule level”

Dr Martino Calamai, University of Florence.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 28 October 2009, 10:30-11:30

“Mechanisms of Prion and PolyQ Misfolding”

Prof Sarah Perrett, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 21 October 2009, 10:30-11:30

Exploring the folding energy landscape of a series of design consensus TPR proteins

Dr Ewan Main Department of Chemistry, University of Sussex.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 10:30-11:30

Title to be confirmed

Dafydd Jones.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 13 May 2009, 10:30-11:30

Title to be confirmed

Stefan Wallin.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 29 April 2009, 10:30-11:30

Alpha-synuclein and protein aggregation

Chris Waudby.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 18 March 2009, 10:30-11:30

Extracellular chaperones and their role in the disposal of misfolded proteins from extracellular spaces

Justin Yerbury.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 10:30-11:30

Tales of a two-stroke motor: allostery in the mechanism of the GroE chaperonin

Steve Burston.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 04 March 2009, 10:30-11:30

Structural elucidation of the self-assembly mechanism of amyloid fibrils

Sheena Radford, University of Leeds.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 25 February 2009, 11:00-12:00

Probing myosin dynamics

Clive R. Bagshaw.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 18 February 2009, 10:30-11:30

Title to be confirmed

Helen Saibil, Birkbeck College.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 21 January 2009, 10:30-11:30

Everything you wanted to know about haem proteins, but were afraid to ask!

Paul Barker, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 10:30-11:30

Structural Reorganisation and Potential Toxicity of Oligomeric Species

Giorgio Favrin, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 10:30-11:30

Pilus Formation Across the Bacterial Outer Membrane by the Chaperone/Usher Pathway

Gabriel Waksman, Birkbeck College.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 10:30-11:30

Bacterial actin: plasmid segregation by ParMRC

Jan Loewe, MRC-LMB.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 10:30-11:30

Molecular Dynamics in Living Cells

Gabriele Kaminski Schierle, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 29 October 2008, 10:30-11:30

Determination of the Stoichiometry of Intact Membrane Protein Complexes using Mass Spectrometry

Nelson Barrera, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 15 October 2008, 10:30-11:30

Flux Control Analysis and the Systems Biology of the Eukaryotic Cell

Steve Oliver - Cambridge System Biology Centre- University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 08 October 2008, 10:30-11:30

Physical Insights into Protein Aggregation

Tuomas Knowles.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 07 May 2008, 10:30-11:30

On the Quaternary Structure of Macromolecular Protein Complexes in the Absence of Bulk Solvent

Brandon T. Ruotolo.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 30 April 2008, 10:30-11:30

A New Kind of Protein-DNA Interaction in Replication Termination

Nick Dixson.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 10:30-11:30

The Tumour Suppressor p53: Structure,Function-Rescue

Alan Fersht.

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 16 April 2008, 10:30-11:30

Nascent chain folding on the ribosome by NMR spectroscopy

Shang-Te Danny HSU.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 19 March 2008, 10:30-11:30

Electronic Energy Transfer/Migration & Biomacromolecular Structure

Lennart Johansson.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 10:30-11:30

85 mutants, 70 phi-values, 4 years, and one overdue PhD:

Adrian Nickson.

Todd Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 27 February 2008, 10:30-11:30

A structural approach to polyglutamine diseases

Vittorio Bellotti.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 20 February 2008, 10:30-11:30

A structural approach to polyglutamine diseases

Laura Masino.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 13 February 2008, 10:30-11:30

Plasmid addiction and toxin-antitoxin systems : paradigms for the study

Lode Wyns.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 10:30-11:30

Elucidating molecular mechanisms on and off the pathway to amyloid deposition

Andrew Miranker.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 30 January 2008, 10:30-11:30

Structure and antigenicity of amyloid fibrils

Marcus Fandrich.

Todd Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Tuesday 11 December 2007, 10:30-11:30

Mass spectrometry and structure, dynamics and function of the small heat shock proteins

Justin Benesch.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 05 December 2007, 10:30-11:30

Elucidating the structural and molecular basis of alpha-synuclein toxicity in Parkinson's disease and related synuleinopathies

Prof Hilal Lashuel.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Department of Chemistry.

Friday 30 November 2007, 10:30-11:30

Protein misfolding: Influence of the cellular environment

Anne Bertolotti - LMB - Cambridge.

Todd Hamied Room, Department of Chemistry.

Wednesday 28 November 2007, 10:30-11:30

Mass spectrometry for determination of protein quaternary structrure?

Dr Brandon Ruotolo, Robinson Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Chemistry, Department of.

Friday 17 March 2006, 10:00-11:00

Bacterial chemotaxis: using computer models to unravel mechanism

Prof. Dennis Bray, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Chemistry, Department of.

Friday 10 March 2006, 10:00-11:00

NMR based investigation of protein molten globule states

Dr Christina Redfield, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Chemistry, Department of.

Friday 03 March 2006, 10:00-11:00

NMR studies of protein-protein interactions involved in chromatin structure

Prof. Ernest Laue, Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

Unilever Lecture Theatre, Unilever Centre, Chemistry, Department of.

Friday 24 February 2006, 10:00-11:00