conference

On Sept 28 2021, Patrick gave a public webinar on the topic of protein Misfolding and aggregation in Huntington’s disease (and related polyglutamine disorders). This was part of the international webinar series on Cellular and Protein Homeostasis. This webinar is now available for streaming online at the following URL (updated URL in 2024). The webinar discusses some of the lessons we learned from our ongoing studies of what happens to mutated proteins in Huntington’s disease. In particular: what is the role of the mutated polyglutamine domain? How does it change its conformation as it transitions from its normal fold to […]

On Thu Feb 18th, Patrick was invited to give a talk in the online Emerging Topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance webinar series. This is a global online seminar series featuring the frontier of research using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (mostly NMR) in biological systems. The webinars are also posted (most of them at least) to the dedicated YouTube channel. Lots of great cutting edge research there! Patrick presented a combination of published an unpublished research that focused on the studies of how lipid (per)oxidation is catalysed in mitochondria, as part of the mitochondrial apoptotic process. Whilst oxidation of biomolecules (lipids, DNA, […]

Patrick was invited to present some of our work in the P3S webinar series organised by three research groups from Europe, China and the US. This recurring series has included many interesting talks on studies of polymers and hydrogels by various spectroscopic techniques, with a recurring role for (solid-state) NMR spectroscopy. Patrick spoke about our published work on studying the repeating polymer structures of polyglutamine proteins [1] and (briefly) our newer investigations of polysaccharide hydrogels [2] . In the former topic, the talk discussed the use and benefits of torsion angle measurements by solid-state NMR, as demonstrated in our prior […]

During the COVID19 pandemic many conferences were cancelled, but also various interesting new online alternatives came into being. Below are a few relevant seminar series with relevance to our past and current research. Protein aggregation & chaperones Proteostasis Consortium Protein Society Webinars Protein Folding and Dynamics IDP seminars IDP SIG Molecular Bases of Proteinopathies NMR related Emerging Topics in Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance (YouTube) Global NMR Discussion meetings (YouTube) MIT SSNMR/DNP zoom seminars P3S seminars MLU Halle ICMRBS Early Careers Seminars Intercontinental NMR Seminar Series (ICONS2020) Membranes and lipids ASBMB Lipid Research Division seminars Biophysics KNAW BiophysicsNL Talks

This coming week the Van der Wel lab will be represented at the annual meeting of the Biophysical Society, taking place in San Francisco. As summarized below, a recurring theme in the presented work will be the impact of oxidative damage in health and disease. Dr. Mingyue Li will present her studies of mitochondrial protein-lipid interactions during her platform session talk on Monday Feb. 19 (1130AM; 999-PLAT). She will talk about the structure and dynamics of the cardiolipin-cytochrome c complex that is implicated in the early stages of mitochondrial apoptosis. This protein/lipid complex features a peripherally bound protein that facilitates […]

This coming spring the Experimental NMR Conference (ENC) is returning to Pittsburgh. The ENC poster, including a list of invited speakers, is available here. To submit your abstract, go to this page by Jan 8th 2016 (which is the abstract deadline). The registration deadline is March 18th 2016. Dates: April 10-15, 2016 Location: Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown Program: ENC website