CeMM Level 8, Seminar Room 

John Kuriyan

Professor, Departments of Chemistry and Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley and

Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

"Phosphorylation Control in CamKII"

Host: Giulio Superti-Furga

CeMM Level 8, Seminar Room 

Dirk Trauner

Janice Cutler Chair in Chemistry and Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience and Physiology, New York University

"Optical Control of Transport Proteins"

Host: Giulio Superti-Furga

Biosketch:

The broad objective of Prof. Trauner’s research is to demonstrate the awesome power of chemical synthesis with challenging target molecules and to use it toward the establishment of synthetic biological pathways. He is well known for his pioneering contributions to Optogenetics and Photopharmacology, using synthetic photoswitches to confer light-sensitivity to a broad range of targets. The chemical tools he developed are particularly useful in neuroscience and cell biology but also hold promise as precision therapeutics. Despite his extensive forays into biology and physiology Dr. Trauner remains an organic chemist at heart, as evidenced by the synthesis (and anticipation) of more than one hundred natural products.

CeMM Level 8, Seminar Room 

Nicolas Thomä

FMI Basel, Switzerland 

"The CRL4 ubiquitin ligase: at the intersection of genome stability and drug discovery"

Host: Georg Winter