NAVER LABS Europe seminars are open to the public. This seminar is virtual and requires registration.
Date: 10th June 2021, 10:00 am (GMT +02.00)
The revolution in protein structure prediction
Speaker: Andrei N. Lupas is an evolutionary biologist and currently Director of the department of protein evolution at the Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen. Prior to this he was a Senior Computational Biologist and later Assistant Director of Bioinformatics, at SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Collegeville, USA (1997-2001). He studied Biology at the Technical University Munich (1982-1985) and Molecular Biology at Princeton University (1985-1990) where he did his PhD with Jeff Stock on the mechanism of signal transduction in bacterial chemotaxis (1991). He was a Postdoctoral fellow with Andreas Plückthun at the Gene Center of the University, Munich (1992-1993), working on antibody engineering and a Research assistant with Wolfgang Baumeister at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsried (1992-1997), working on the development and application of sequence analysis tools, and on the structure and function of the proteasome.