Structure, Dynamics, Function of Membrane Proteins

03 Dec 2009

Thursday 3 December 2009

Speaker: Professor Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Department of Chemistry and Biophysics University of Michigan and Wilsmore Fellow, School of Chemistry, The University of Melbourne

Venue: Bio21 Institute Auditorium, 30 Flemington Road, Parkville

Time: 1.00 to 2.00pm

No RSVP Required. All welcome.

Host and contact for enquiries: Frances Separovic fs@unimelb.edu.au

This is the  first of two seminars by  Professor Ramamoorthy (see Biological Solid-State NMR  10 December 1-2pm), whose research interests include the structure, dynamics, and function of macromolecules with a special interest in membrane-associated peptides/proteins. The specific biological systems being investigated are cytochrome b5, cytochrome P450, misfolded amyloid proteins, and antimicrobial peptides. Other systems that are being investigated in collaboration using NMR techniques are cancer tissues, cancer metabolomics, bone, and membrane interaction of dendrimeric nanoparticles.