The course will take place online as a videoconference with Powerpoint-presentations from 24.08. - 27.08.2020. The exact schedule is the following:
24.08.2018: 16.30 - 20.00
25.08.2018: 16.30 - 20.00
26.08.2018: 16.30 - 20.00
27.08.2018: 16.30 - 18.00

Students, that would like to participate, please contact the lecturer (BeekesM@rki.de) for registration and further information. close

Content:

• Cerebral proteopathies: Alzheimer´s disease, Parkinson´s disease, prion diseases
• Portrait of the diseases
• Protein aggregation as a common molecular key feature of different proteopathies
• Nucleation-dependent protein polymerization of amyloid-beta (Aß) and tau protein,
alpha-synuclein and prion protein in Alzheimer´s, Parkinson´s and prion diseases, respectively
• Amyloid fibril formation
• Structure models and polymorphisms of amyloid fibrils
• Transmissibility of protein seeding and disease features by self-replicating Aß-, tau-, a-syn- and PrP particles
• Pathophysiology, diagnostics and therapy

PD Dr. M. Beekes: BeekesM@rki.de close