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Pavel Pevzner will be giving a talk entitled "Bioinformatics: a Servant or the Queen of Molecular Biology?", Thursday the 19th september at 14:00 h (meeting room, Main Building, Alameda campus). In his talk, Pavel will argue that bioinformatics is rapidly turning into the queen of molecular biology, illustrating this view by showing how recent computational developments brought down biological dogmas. In the second part of the talk, he will discuss a century-old dogma about the traditional classroom and describe the recent efforts to repudiate it using Intelligent Tutoring Systems. Pavel Pevzner is a Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Director of the NIH Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry at University of California, San Diego.

Chris Burd will be giving a talk entitled "Protein and Lipid sorting in the Secretory Pathway", Monday the 9th july at 15:00 h in the meeting room of the main building of the IST Alameda campus. In his talk, Chris will focus on the Golgi apparatus, which constitutes the central distribution center, analogous to a post office, of the cell by directing the trafficking of lipids and proteins to their resident organelle or to the cell surface. Chris is a professor of Cell Biology at the University of Yale. His research is driven by the desire to understand how the organelles of the endomembrane system - the collection of intracellular, membrane-bounded organelles that compartmentalize the biochemical reactions that fuel life - are assembled and maintained. The talk is part of The American Corners program.

The 3rd Edition of iBB seminars will continue on the 24th June with short talks from Ana Melo - "Untangling the role of dysfunctional disordered proteins in neurodegeneration at single molecule level" and Nuno Bernardes - "Exploring plasma membrane components' organization and dynamics as targets for azurins: their role in anticancer activity and selective uptake of therapeutics". Join us next monday (13h00 h, room 1.38, IST-Tagus Park) to learn more about Ana's and Nuno's research.

Photo details: 3D-model of oxidized Pseudomonas aeruginosa azurin (pdb 4AZU)

Ioannis Papantoniou will be giving a talk entitled "Tissue by Design: Bioprocess-pipelines for the production of clinically relevant skeletal living implants", Wednesday the 12th september at 11:00 h in room 1.38 of the IST Tagus Park campus. In his talk, Ioannis will provide an overview of the strategy that his group is developing in order to tackle major challenges in Tissue Engineering, including the ability to control complexity within 3D engineered constructs, diffusion limitations and the lack of control of the environment. Ioannis is a Chemical Engineer by training (U Patras, Greece) and holds a PhD from University College London. He is currently ATMP Research coordinator, within Prometheus - the KU Leuven division of skeletal tissue Engineering.