09:45-10:00 WELCOME
Chair : Carlo van Mierlo (Univ. of Wageningen, The Netherlands)
10:00-10:45 Sheena Radford (Astbury Cte Struct. Mol. Biol., Univ. Leeds, U.K.) “Exploiting protein-protein interactions to ameliorate amyloid disease”
10:45-11:15 COFFEE BREAK
11:15-12:00 Camille Goemans (de Duve Institute, U.C.Louvain, Belgique) “The uncommon strategy of a chaperone to protect its substrates from over-oxidation”
12:00-12:45 Karen Stroobants (University of Cambridge, U.K.) “Interacting with proteins, from artificial enzymes to amyloid fibrils”12:00-12:45
12:45-13:45 LUNCH
13:45 –14:30 Mireille Dumoulin (Centre for Protein Engineering, University of Liège, Belgium) “Use of Nanobodies to study protein misfolding and aggregation”
14:30-15:15 Kerensa Broersen (University of Twente, The Netherlands) “On the transmission of tau and aggregation of amyloid beta in Alzheimer-affected cellular interactions”
15:15-16:00 Stefan Rüdiger (Bijvoet Center Biomol. Res., Utrecht University, The Netherlands) “Mechanism of action of molecular chaperones in protein folding”
16:00 General assembly of the BBSc and RECEPTION
Contact: Prof André Matagne ([email protected]).
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