Protein self-assembly – understanding and controlling the machinery of life

Professor Tuomas Knowles

• 3 March 2025, 18:00 – 19:00
• Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre

This event has passed Booking Recommended In-person Lecture Lent Term

• Event cost: Free
• Disabled access?: Yes
• Booking required: No

BOOK NOW

Share:

• Tweet

Overview

Proteins are the active molecules of life. However, most proteins do not work on their own in health or disease; a key challenge, therefore, is understanding how these molecules interact with each other to give rise to function or malfunction. This talk will outline our efforts to discover, understand and use the basic principles that drive protein assembly into larger scale structures and phases. 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.

Program

Biography

Tuomas Knowles is a British scientist and Professor of Physical Chemistry and Biophysics at the Department of Chemistry and at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. He is the co-director of the Cambridge Centre for Misfolding Diseases and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge.

---

Location