Professor and Director Mario Amzel, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA will give his lecture
Structure and mechanism of peptidylglycine-alpha-amidating monooxygenase PAM
Wednesday 18 September 2013 at DTU Chemistry, building 208, Aud. 54 at 14:00.
For further information:
www.kemi.dtu.dk/nyheder or
http://biophysics.med.jhmi.edu/amzelm/MAmzel.html
Contact:
Associate Professor Hans Erik Mølager Christensen, hemc@kemi.dtu.dk
About L. Mario Amzel
Professor and Director of the Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA, since 2006. In 1968, Dr. Amzel received his Ph.D. degree in Physical Chemistry from Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he was named Honorary Professor in 1988. He is a renowned scientist in the field of structural biology, specifically X-ray crystallography, structural enzymology, and structural thermodynamics. Dr. Amzel was part of the group that first described and determined the structure of the Fab fragment of an antibody. Presently, his research focuses on how enzymes play a key role in all metabolic and cell-signaling processes.