Gutenberg Workshop on "Multivalent Interactions in Ageing – Targets for Intervention?"
This workshop will bring together experts in molecular ageing, biopolymer interactions and polymer theory to discuss how non-deterministic, multivalent and disordered biomolecular interactions contribute to cellular function. While multivalent interactions come with a certain degree of resilience to perturbation, it is well known that disturbances of such interactions contribute to ageing and devastating degenerative diseases. At this workshop, participants will discuss our current understanding of non-deterministic assemblies driven by disorder and multivalency and possible pathways towards the design of new and innovative intervention strategies to treat age-associated diseases.
Organisers of the meeting:
- Dorothee Dormann, Johannes Gutenberg University & Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz
- Edward Lemke, Johannes Gutenberg University & Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz
Scientific Advisor: Peter Baumann, Johannes Gutenberg University & Institute of Molecular Biology, Mainz
Confirmed speakers:
- Simon Alberti, TU Dresden (GER)
- Thomas Boothby, U of Wyoming (USA)
- Alexander Buell, DTU (Denmark)
- Della David, Babraham (UK)
- Lin Guo, Thomas Jefferson University (USA)
- Martin Hetzer, ISTA (Austria)
- Tuomas Knowles, U of Cambridge (UK)
- Chiu Fan Lee, Imperial College (UK)
- Sua Myong, Johns Hopkins (USA)
- Rohit Pappu, Washington University in St Louis (USA)
- Kausik Si, Stowers Institute (USA)
- Liesbeth Veenhoff, ERIBA (Netherlands)
- Susanne Wegmann, DZNE (GER)
More information can be found on the Gutenberg Workshops Website.