Conférence – David Kwan, Ph.D., vendredi 16 mai à 11h00

PROTEO a le plaisir de vous inviter vendredi 16 mai à 11h00 à la présentation de David Kwan, Ph.D., professeur à l’Université de Concordia, invité par Daniela Quaglia, Ph.D., professeure à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. L’événement aura lieu au Pavillon de chimie et biochimie (CB), salle CB-R450, Université du Québec à Montréal.

“Controlling protein machinery for biosensing, biocatalysis, and biochemical communication”

Proteins are central to life’s molecular machinery, and the ability to control their function has significant implications for biotechnology and medicine. This control can be achieved through protein engineering or by harnessing small molecule modulators such as agonists and antagonists. In this seminar, I will highlight three projects from my lab that demonstrate these strategies. First, I will describe our efforts to engineer transcriptional regulators into protein-based biosensors for detecting phenolic compounds. Next, I will present our development of tools for the directed evolution of oxidoreductases, enabling their use as biocatalysts in sustainable chemistry. Finally, I will share our approaches to screening for inhibitors of enzymes involved in the assembly of cell-surface carbohydrates, which play key roles in cellular communication. I will highlight how controlling protein machinery in these examples can benefit both industrial and medical applications.

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