LSI Seminar Series: Anthony Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., Columbia University

Forum Hall, Palmer Commons

Audience This is a public event.

Patient-based structural biology of protein misfolding in health and disease

Protein misfolding plays a significant role in health and disease. The inability of proteins to fold correctly can lead to cellular dysfunction, aggregate formation and the development of severe diseases. This seminar will discuss how proteins adopt their 3D shapes from amino acid sequences, undergo ensemble dynamics and interact with other biomolecules to perform functions — and what happens if protein folding goes awry.

Speaker

Anthony Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics; Principal Investigator, Zuckerman Institute

Columbia University

Anthony Fitzpatrick is an assistant professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University. Previously, he was a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellow at the California Institute of Technology and the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, University of Cambridge. He has a biophysics background (Ph.D. with Professor Sir Christopher M. Dobson, University of Cambridge) and undertook postdoctoral training with Professors Ahmed H. Zewail (Nobel Laureate), Sjors Scheres, and Michel Goedert.