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, September 5, 2022 - 8:30 AM

Monday, September 5, 2022

8:30 AM Coffee chat and introduction to the symposium
Coffee chat and introduction to the symposium
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: The education center, SZ-OSGA/EG06
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:10 AM
Room: The education center, SZ-OSGA/EG06
Contributions

9:00 AM Coherent Electron Diffractive Imaging in single particle cryo-EM - Henning Stahlberg (EPFL, Electron diffraction and imaging)

9:30 AM X-ray nanotomography of biological tissues by ptychographic tomography - Ana Diaz (PSI, cSAXS beamline, X-ray ptychography imaging)

9:50 AM 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 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: The education center, SZ-OSGA/EG06
10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: The education center, SZ-OSGA/EG06
Contributions

10:30 AM 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 AM 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 AM Alanine switches protein crystal formation to amyloid fibril formation - Rebecca Sternke-Hoffmann (PSI, BIO Department)
11:40 AM Lunch break at OASE
Lunch break at OASE
11:40 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: The education center, SZ-OSGA/EG06
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: The education center, SZ-OSGA/EG06
Contributions

1:00 PM The structural and dynamics landscape of proteins using NMR - Roland Riek (ETH, NMR)

1:30 PM X-ray absorption spectroscopy provides insight in the oxidation state and local structure of metal sites - Maarten Nachtegaal (PSI, SuperXAS, X-ray spectroscopy)

1:50 PM Insights Into Amyloid-Copper Interaction From Soft X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy - Jan Dreiser (PSI, Xtreme beamline for XMCD, X-ray magnetic circular dichroism)
2:10 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
2:10 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: The education center, SZ-OSGA/EG06
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: The education center, SZ-OSGA/EG06
Contributions

2:30 PM Probing the effects of lipids and lipid membrane on amyloid aggregation - Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy (The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, NMR)

3:00 PM Identifying the role of co-aggregation of Alzheimer’s Amyloid-β with amorphous protein aggregates of non-amyloid proteins - Jinming Wu (PSI, BIO Department)

3:20 PM Protein dynamics: what can we learn from neutron spectroscopy - Fanni Juranyi (PSI, FOCUS, neutron spectroscopy)

3:40 PM Amyloid fibrils: sustainable building blocks for materials science - Viviane Lütz Bueno (PSI, SANS, neutron scattering)
4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: The education center, SZ-OSGA/EG06

9:00 PM none
none
9:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: The education center, SZ-OSGA/EG06

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