Engineering recombinant proteins for structural and functional studies

27-28 November 2023
The Spine, Liverpool, UK

Late-breaking abstract Deadline: Monday 13 November

This two-day training event will discuss strategies to engineer sufficiently pure, homogenous and high-quality recombinant proteins that are critical for subsequent structural and functional studies. The event, aimed at early career researchers will cover the latest bioinformatic tools for construct design and protein characterisation, tips and tricks for improving protein expression, purification, stability/preparation and evaluating quality with biophysical techniques. The event will be interactive with opportunities to bring proteins to analyse on some of the latest instrumentation/software and to present a poster on these topics.

Topics will include:

Protein Bioinformatics
Protein Expression
Protein Purification
Biophysical Characterisation

Key learning objectives:

1. To be able to demonstrate knowledge of the full pathway of protein construct design, expression, purification and characterisation.

2. To be able to describe the principles and applications of bioinformatic and biophysical approaches to their research and have a chance to collect/analyse data on their protein of interest.

3. To understand how to optimise and evaluate protein expression and purification.

Programme Coordinators for this event are:

Nicola Burgess-Brown, Exact Sciences Innovation, Oxford
Rivka Isaacson, Kings College London
Elliott Stollar, University of Liverpool

Invited speakers for this event are:

Rod Chalk, Centre for Medicines Discovery (CMD), University of Oxford
Chris Cooper, CHARM Therapeutics
Mark Frost, Cytiva
Magdalena Richter, AstraZeneca
Dan Rigden, University of Liverpool
Eleanor Williams, Centre for Medicines Discovery (CMD), University of Oxford

Event sponsored by:

Sponsorship opportunities are available for this meeting. For more details and to find out how you can get involved, please contact Hannah Atkins, Sponsorship Manager.

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