The Belgian Biophysical Society further supported by the FNRS Graduate School “Structure and Function of Biological Macromolecules, Bioinformatics and Modelling” organizes the 20^th one-day symposium on protein folding & assembly on friday the 1^st of septembre 2023 at the University of Liège.

09:45-10:00 Welcome

Chair : Carlo van Mierlo (University of Wageningen, The Netherlands)

10:00-10:45 Paula Booth (King College London &The Francis Crick Institute, UK)

“Co-translational folding of membrane proteins”

10:45-11:15 Romain Malempré (Centre for Protein Engineering, Université de Liège, Belgium)

“Unravelling the folding of a large monomeric model protein at a high resolution through HDX-MS and HDX-NMR”

11:15-11:45 Cofee break

11:45-12:30 Christina Redfield (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK)

“Revisiting the alpha-lactalbumin molten globule”

12:30-13:00 Jehan Waeytens (SFBM, CSBB, ULBruxelles, Belgium; UParis-Saclay, France)

“Infrared nanospectroscopy : an emerging technique for the study of amyloid fibrils”

13:00-14:00 lunch

14:00-14:45 Human Rezaei (Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, Jouy-en-Josas, France)

“Prion pathologies: the consequences of the coexistence of multiple prion conformations on the dynamic of prion assemblies and tissue invasion”

14:45-15:30 Chloé Martens (SFBM, CSBB, ULBruxelles, Belgium)

“Beyond membrane protein structure : insights into dynamics from H/D exchange coupled to Mass Spectrometry”

15:20-16:15 Wyatt Yue (Biosciences Inst., Fac. Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, UK)

“Catching the TRiC chaperonin in the act of folding substrates”

16:415 General assembly of the BBSc and reception