Molecular Insights Into Proteinopathies Increased Scope from Neurodegeneration to Other Pathologies of the Brain

Eva Žerovnik is known in the field of protein folding and in neuroscience. She publishes in both fields, as well as biophysics. Her educational background is in physical chemistry, structural biology, biochemistry and neurosciences, therefore her work is multidisciplinary. She is currently Professor of Biochemistry at Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School and scientific advisor at Institut Jožef Stefan, Slovenia. She has led collaborations with some leading labs such as Medical School, Nottingham, Medical School, Newcastle upon Tyne, Biomolecular NMR, Sheffield, UK, Department of Physics, Drexel University USA, Brain and Mind Institute, Lausanne, CH and IRCCS Fatebenefratelli, Brescia, Italy.

Robert Layfield is a Professor of Protein Biochemistry at the University of Nottingham. He recently completed a 4-year term as Head of the Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience Research Division, within the School of Life Sciences. He was an MND Association BRAP (Biomedical Research Advisory Panel) member from 2018-2022 and has a long-standing research interest in cellular mechanisms of removal of defective proteins in Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s and MND. His group made the first mechanistic demonstrations of proteostasis defects in Alzheimer’s disease.