Institute of Biochemistry organizes the “LIFE SCIENCES” lecture series in the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg in the coming winter term:
Title: „Novel Advances in Modern Biochemistry: from Chemistry, the Origin of Life, Biocatalysis and Structural Biochemistry”
Biochemistry is the scientific discipline that studies the molecular structures and chemical processes occurring in living organisms. While originating in the 19th century with the research done by scientists such as Eduard Buchner, Justus von Liebig or Emil Fischer, it is nowadays a fundamental discipline studying the structure and function of biomolecular macromolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids, the regulation of metabolism, mechanisms of enzyme catalysis and the origin of life. This lecture series LIFE SCIENCES „Novel Advances in Modern Biochemistry: from Chemistry, the Origin of Life, Biocatalysis and Structural Biochemistry” will introduce you to recent developments in modern biochemistry. over the past few decades, methodology in biochemical research has made enormous progress enabling mechanistic insights into structure and function of megadalton complexes such as ribosomes to be obtained, and allowing the design and generation of artificial cells in synthetic biology. It has also enabled the engineering of genome-editing tools such as CRISPR-Cas9 as well as novel plastic degrading enzymes, and fundamental cellular processes to be explored at atomic resolution. Recently, significant progress in artificial intelligence has enabled the prediction of protein structures and the design of proteins with important applications in medicine and biotechnology. In this lecture series leading experts in the field of Biochemistry will present their research on fundamental scientific questions applying state-of-the-art methods including synthetic biological approaches, cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography as well as the chemical synthesis of supramolecular materials.
The programme you can find here.
We are looking forward seeing many interested Biochemistry students in the lectures in the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg!
