Departmental General Lecture
Friday, 31 March 2017
Multimedia Room, at 13.00-15.00
Prof Dr John Carver
Director of Research, School of Chemistry at the Australian National University,
Canberra
Contact Departmental Office for registration (by 31 March 2017 at 09.00 am) or fill this form https://goo.gl/forms/HxURvIliBzxvkPQm1
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Prof Carver’s Research interests
John’s research interests are in peptide and protein structure, function and interactions. Of late, he has been concentrating on molecular chaperone proteins and their mechanism of stabilizing other proteins, particularly those involved in diseases of protein aggregation, e.g. Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases and cataract. Related to this, he is also very interested in the mechanism of protein aggregation and its mitigation. He utilises a diversity of spectroscopic, biophysical and protein chemical techniques for his research, with NMR spectroscopy being at the forefront. He has co-authored over 150 research publications and has received a variety of fellowships.
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