Richard Morimoto - The Biology of Proteostasis in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease
Max Planck Special Guest Lecture Series
- Date: Mar 22, 2018
- Time: 01:00 PM c.t. - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Richard Morimoto
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA
- Location: MPI-IE
- Room: Main Lecture Hall
- Host: Ritwick Sawarkar
Richard Morimoto, Bill and Gayle Cook Professor of Biology and Director of the Rice Institute for Biomedical Research at Northwestern University, Illinois, USA, joins the Max Planck Freiburg Special Guest Lecture Series in March 2018. On the 22nd of March (starting 1pm in the Main Lecture Hall of the MPI-IE) he will give a talk entitled “The Biology of Proteostasis in Aging and Neurodegenerative Disease”. Your host is Ritwick Sawarkar (MPI-IE). For more information please see: http://www.ie-freiburg.mpg.de/events/11757/4678708
Research
Richard Morimotos lab at Northwestern University, Illinois, USA in interested “in cell stress regulatory pathways and protein homeostasis (proteostasis) that ensures the stability of the proteome in health and when challenged by cell stress and the expression of metastable, misfolded, and aggregated proteins. Therefore they use C. elegans and human iPS cells and employ genetic, molecular, small molecule, proteomic and genomic methods and systems level analyses to identify changes during aging and age-associated diseases including metabolic diseases, cancer, and neurodegeneration.”
source: Northwestern University