Seminar

Title: Structural studies of platelet receptors and coagulation factors (Protein-protein interactions involved in hemostasis as targets for drug design to prevent cardiovascular disease)

Lecturer: Prof. Jonas Emsley

Centre for Biomolecular Sciences,

School of Pharmacy,

University of Nottingham, UK

Host: Prof. Weiliang Zhu

Time:10:00 am, July 12, 2011 (Tuesday)

Venue: Yisheng Hall, No. 1 building, SIMM

Prof Emsley obtained his first degree in 1989 from the university of Nottingham and PhD from Birkbeck College in 1995, then work as Postdoctoral Research Associate in Purdue University and Leicester University from 1995 to 2000. Now he is a professor in Macromolecular Crystallography, School of Pharmacy University of Nottingham, Nottingham. His research interests include determining protein structures and studying the structure/function of complexes formed with drugs and natural ligands. He has published many papers in Cell, EMBO J, Nat Struct Mol Biol., Blood, and JBC.