Na najbliższym Konwersatorium im. Jerzego Pniewskiego (23 kwietnia 2018 r. o godz. 16:30 w sali 0.03) gościć będziemy prof. Władysława Minora (University of Virginia, USA), który wygłosi wykład pt.

,,A PHYSICIST’S ADVENTURE IN A STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY WORLD’’.

Streszczenie wykładu znajduje się poniżej. Przed konwersatorium, od godz. 16.00, zapraszamy jak zwykle na kawę i nieformalne dyskusje do holu przed salą 0.03.

Barbara Badełek
Marek Pfutzner
Jan Suffczyński

Abstract: Twentieth-century science was dominated by progress in physics. It seems that 21st-century science will be ruled by biomedically oriented research, in which structural biology will play a leading role. Structural biology can be thought of as an engine of biomedical research, because the investigation of molecular structures and the dynamics of biological macromolecules underlies many biomedical disciplines. The methodologies developed by physicists, including alumni of the Faculty of Physics of the University of Warsaw, transformed structural biology and have led to the structure determination of tens of thousands of proteins. Structural information has paved the way for modern, structure-guided drug discovery and laid the foundations for structural bioinformatics. Structural biology has been, and will continue to serve as, the central source of experimental information used in the discovery of new drugs. The bottlenecks on the path from protein structure to a new drug will be discussed.