Amyloid Journal Club
Schedule
December 14, 2011 – Angela Soriaga
January 11, 2012 – Anni Zhao
February 8, 2012 – Howard Chang
March 14, 2012 - JungReem Woo
April 11, 2012 – Harkewal Singh
May 9, 2012 – Alice Soragni
June 13, 2012 – Stuart Sievers
July 11, 2012 – Rebecca Nelson
August 8, 2012 – Mike Sawaya
September 12, 2012 – Boris Brumshtein
October 10, 2012 - Cong Liu
Presentations
October 13, 2010 - Stuart Sievers - "Deciphering the structure, growth and assembly of amyloid-like fibrils using high-speedatomic force microscopy."
November 10, 2010 - Cong Liu - "Amyloid beta-protein dimers rapidly form stable synaptotoxic protofibrils."
January 12, 2011 - Boris Brumshtein - "Optical trapping with high forces reveals unexpected behaviors of prion fibrils."
February 9, 2011 - Lin Jiang - "Essential role of coiled coils for aggregation and activity of Q/N-rich prions and PolyQ proteins."
March 9, 2011 - Magdalena Ivanova - "Prion propagation and toxicity in vivo occur in two distinct mechanistic phases."
April 20, 2011 - Mari Gingery - "Two Distinct Amyloid beta-Protein (Abeta) Assembly Pathways Leading to Oligomers and Fibrils Identified by Combined Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy, Morphology, and Toxicity Analyses."
May 11, 2011 - Natalie Anderson - "Pattern recognition with a fibril-specific antibody fragment reveals the surface variability of natural amyloid fibrils."
June 8, 2011 - Minglei Zhao - "The Amyloid-Congo Red Interface at Atomic Resolution."
July 13, 2011 - Luki Goldschmidt - "Opposing effects of glutamine and asparagine govern prion formation by intrinsically disordered proteins."
August 10, 2011 - Meytal Landau - "InVivo and In Vitro Analyses of Toxic Mutants of HET-s: FTIR Antiparallel Signature Correlates with Amyloid Toxicity."
October 12, 2011 - Jiyong Park - "α-Synuclein occurs physiologically as a helically folded tetramer that resists aggregation."
November 9, 2011 – Heather McFarlane - “The Seeds of Neurodegeneration: Prion-like Spreading in ALS.”
December 14, 2011 – Angela Soriaga - “Structure-based design of conformation- and sequence-specific antibodies against amyloid β.”
January 11, 2012 – Anni Zhao - “Atomic-resolution dynamics on the surface of amyloid-beta; protofibrils probed by solution NMR.”
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