Name: Amyloid proteins meet physics: from X-rays and neutrons over electrons to magnetism
Start: 2022-09-05T08:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-05T21:30:00+02:00
Location: Paul Scherrer Institute

Amyloid proteins meet physics: from X-rays and neutrons over electrons to magnetism

Monday 5 September 2022 - 08:30

Monday 5 September 2022

08:30 Coffee chat and introduction to the symposium
Coffee chat and introduction to the symposium
08:30 - 09:00
Room: The education center, SZ-OSGA/EG06
09:00
09:00 - 10:10
Room: The education center, SZ-OSGA/EG06
Contributions

09:00 Coherent Electron Diffractive Imaging in single particle cryo-EM - Henning Stahlberg (EPFL, Electron diffraction and imaging)

09:30 X-ray nanotomography of biological tissues by ptychographic tomography - Ana Diaz (PSI, cSAXS beamline, X-ray ptychography imaging)

09:50 X-ray phase contrast tomography at the TOMCAT beamline: a focus on brain imaging - Anne Bonnin (PSI, Tomcat beamline, X-ray phase contrast imaging)
10:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:10 - 10:30
Room: The education center, SZ-OSGA/EG06
10:30
10:30 - 11:40
Room: The education center, SZ-OSGA/EG06
Contributions

10:30 Copper bound to amyloid-beta: from structure and reactivity insights to its targeting as therapeutic approach - Peter Faller (University of Strasbourg, EPR & X-ray)

11:00 Soft X-Ray Spectromicroscopy for Nanoscale Chemical Characterization at the SIM Beamline of the SLS - Armin Kleibert (PSI, SIM beamline, photo-emission electron microscopy)

11:20 Alanine switches protein crystal formation to amyloid fibril formation - Rebecca Sternke-Hoffmann (PSI, BIO Department)
11:40 Lunch break at OASE
Lunch break at OASE
11:40 - 13:00
Room: The education center, SZ-OSGA/EG06
13:00
13:00 - 14:10
Room: The education center, SZ-OSGA/EG06
Contributions

13:00 The structural and dynamics landscape of proteins using NMR - Roland Riek (ETH, NMR)

13:30 X-ray absorption spectroscopy provides insight in the oxidation state and local structure of metal sites - Maarten Nachtegaal (PSI, SuperXAS, X-ray spectroscopy)

13:50 Insights Into Amyloid-Copper Interaction From Soft X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy - Jan Dreiser (PSI, Xtreme beamline for XMCD, X-ray magnetic circular dichroism)
14:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:10 - 14:30
Room: The education center, SZ-OSGA/EG06
14:30
14:30 - 16:00
Room: The education center, SZ-OSGA/EG06
Contributions

14:30 Probing the effects of lipids and lipid membrane on amyloid aggregation - Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy (The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, NMR)

15:00 Identifying the role of co-aggregation of Alzheimer’s Amyloid-β with amorphous protein aggregates of non-amyloid proteins - Jinming Wu (PSI, BIO Department)

15:20 Protein dynamics: what can we learn from neutron spectroscopy - Fanni Juranyi (PSI, FOCUS, neutron spectroscopy)

15:40 Amyloid fibrils: sustainable building blocks for materials science - Viviane Lütz Bueno (PSI, SANS, neutron scattering)
16:00

16:00 - 17:30
Room: The education center, SZ-OSGA/EG06

21:00 none
none
21:00 - 21:30
Room: The education center, SZ-OSGA/EG06