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Workshop on single-molecule protein folding
The Single Molecule Folding Workshop took place from the 13th to the 17th of March 2023 and was organized as a joint event by Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia (UPJS) and Technical University of Munich, Germany (TUM) in Antholz, Italy. The workshop aimed to bring together experts in the field to discuss various topics and … Continued
March 30, 2023
Casprot researchers revealed morphologies of pathological light chain from multiple myeloma patient
Džupponová V, Žoldák G. Aggregation mechanism and branched 3D morphologies of pathological human light chain proteins under reducing conditions. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces. 2023 Jan;221:112983. doi: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2022.112983. Multiple myeloma is a hematologic malignancy characterized by a clonal proliferation of plasma cells producing a monoclonal immunoglobulin light chain. Produced monoclonal light chains are then secreted in … Continued
January 27, 2023
The University of Oxford welcomed our PhD student
Cooperation with the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford to develop a new assay to monitor events during protein aggregation at a single-molecule level From the 1st of October to the 20th of December 2022, a PhD student RNDr. Veronika Džupponová (supervisor: Assoc. prof. RNDr. Gabriel Žoldák, PhD.) from the Department of Biophysics UPJŠ in Košice … Continued
January 7, 2023
Participation in the 10th Multinational Congress on Microscopy
Support of the CasProt project gave an opportunity to a member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Biosciences, Veronika Huntošová, and PhD student, Viktória Pevná, from the Department of Biophysics of UPJŠ in Košice to attend the 16th Multinational Congress on Microscopy (16MCM), which was held in Brno, in the Czech Republic, from 4 to 9 … Continued
September 16, 2022
Regional Biophysics Conference RBC 2022
The 9th RBC 2022 Regional Biophysics Conference took place in Pécs (Hungary) from 22 to 26 August 2022. Thanks to the support of the CasProt project, several employees and PhD students of the Center for Interdisciplinary Biosciences and the Department of Biophysics of UPJŠ in Košice could participate in it actively. The Regional Biophysics Conference … Continued
September 7, 2022
Attendance at the 21st European Bioenergetics Conference
Thanks to the support of the CasProt project, Daniel Jancura and a PhD student Adriána Tomková from the Department of Biophysics of UPJŠ in Košice were able to actively participate in the 21st European Bioenergetics Conference which was held at Aix-en-Provence, in France, from 20 to 25 August 2022. The EBEC is a traditional biannual conference … Continued
August 30, 2022
