VALIDATE Winter Seminar

Details: For VALIDATE members only. Two live presentations followed by a Q&A

Location: Online via Microsoft Teams

​​Register: You can register using the form below. Once registered, we will send you a link to the Teams Meeting via a calendar invite

Time and Date: 14:00 GMT, 3 December 2020

​​​​​​Speakers:

Giorgio Colombo is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the Dept of Chemistry, University of Pavia. Prof Colombo has authored or coauthored more than 150 scientific publications in international journals, and works to integrate molecular dynamics, computational physical-chemistry and bioinformatics approaches to study the dynamics and specificity of protein-ligand recognition and binding.

Louise Gourlay is an Assistant Professor in Biochemistry at the Department of Biosciences at the University of Milan, Italy. Asst Prof Gourlay is a structural biologist and biochemist with a principal interest in using 3D structure information, obtained via X-ray crystallography, to re-engineer protein antigens/epitopes from Burkholderia pseudomallei, to improve their potential use as immunogens in a melioidosis vaccine and on developing novel, immunodiagnostic tests for emerging infections.