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The study of protein-protein interactions within an organism is an innovative research field which is gaining significance in the design of new therapeutic strategies (Photo: UB).
 05.10.2015

International symposium on the biology of protein networks

The study of protein-protein interactions within an organism is an innovative research field which is gaining significance in the design of new therapeutic strategies. To analyse studies on the biology of protein networks —in other words, the interactoma— and its pathological implications is the main objective of the international symposium that takes place today and tomorrow at the Aula Magna of the Historic Building of the University of Barcelona. The symposium is coordinated by Dr Marçal Pastor Anglada, member of the Institute of Biomedicine of the University of Barcelona (IBUB), located at PCB.

 

The opening was chaired by Dr Jordi Albert, vice-rector for Research, Innovation and Transfer; Dr José María Medina, member of the Scientific Council of the Ramón Areces Foundation, and Dr Marçal Pastor Anglada, professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and member of the National Biomedical Research Institute of Liver and Gastrointestinal Diseases (CIBERehd). 

The symposium –an initiative promoted by the Ramón Areces Foundation, supported by the University of Barcelona, the IBUB and the CIBERehd– will analyse a wide range of research lines focused on the improvement of computing tools that allow in silico prediction of the existence of interactions and protein networks; the improvement of experimental techniques that enable to prove these interactions, and the definition of new networks for certain systems and pathologies that affect, for example, the central nervous system, the immune system, the networks related with tumour development, etc.

The international symposium gathers prestigious experts such as Dr Igor Stagljar, professor at the University of Toronto, who has promoted the innovative technologies MYTH and MAMTH. These technologies have enabled to begin identifying hydrophobic integral membrane proteins, a process that traditional techniques were not able to achieve. 

In the field of biocomputing advances, the symposium gathers experts such as Juan Fernández Recio, researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and Patrick Aloy, group leader at IRB Barcelona, among others.

 

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