SFB 1551 Seminar Series Event – Prof. Dr. Tuomas Knowles

Protein phase transitions in health, disease, and new materials

By Prof. Dr. Tuomas Knowles
University of Cambridge, UK · Department of Physical Chemistry and Biophysics

This talk describes our efforts to measure, quantify, understand and modulate at the molecular level the processes that govern protein phase separation and aggregation. We bring together theory, computation and experiments to discover the molecular mechanisms of aggregation and phase separation. I will discuss how controlling transitions between such phases can help us ameliorate biological malfunction when it occurs in disease, and well as develop new classes of functional materials.