Early Stage Protein Misfolding and Amyloid Aggregation

MMassimo Sandal received his doctorate qualification from the University of Bologna in 2008 for his research on active conformers of proteins. He has gone on to conduct research on proteins in departements of Biochemistry and Biotechnology across Europe. Following on from the University of Bologna, he was a post-doctoral FEBS Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a post-doctoral associate at the University of Verona in 2012. From 2013 to 2016 he was associated to the German Research School for Simulation Sciences in Jülich, Germany.

1. From the Evolution of Protein Sequences Able to Resist Self-Assembly to the Prediction of Aggregation Propensity 2. Protein Aggregation and Molecular Crowding: Perspectives from Multiscale Simulations 3. Structural Characteristics of a -Synuclein Oligomers 4. Effects of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors on Aggregation of Physiologically Important Intrinsically Disordered Proteins 5. The Nucleation of Protein Aggregates - from Crystals to Amyloid Fibrils 6. What Makes a Prion: Infectious Proteins From Animals to Yeast 7. The Structure of Mammalian Prions and their Aggregates