The Twinning European Commission funded-project 𝗧𝗪𝗜𝗡2𝗣𝗜𝗣𝗦𝗔 – 𝘛𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘦𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘭𝘺 consortium will meet between 1 and 3 February at Ciências ULisboa.

In this kick-off meeting, researchers will be able to discuss and set-up in detail the strategy and activities that will be promoted within the project, which aims at organizing staff exchanges, advanced training schools, conferences and workshops between academia in the field of proteins and protein folding. 

Cláudio Gomes, PI at Protein Misfolding and Amyloids in Biomedicine Lab – BioISI – Ciências ULisboa,  is the project coordinator. The projects counts with several other BioISI researchers  (Bárbara Henriques, Miguel Machuqueiro, Paulo Costa, Bruno L. Victor,  Ana Nunes, Patrícia Faísca, Mário Rodrigues, Ana Carapeto and Federico Herrera) and with Romana Santos, researcher at the Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre – Ciências ULisboa. The consortium also integrates several European scientists (from the University of Copenhagen, Tel Aviv University and University of Cambridge) who, together with BioISI researchers, are eager to take the state-of-the-art research in Biochemistry and Biophysics of Proteins, with impact in biomedicine and biotechnology, one step further.

Alongside the kick-off meeting, a plenary conference series- given by  experts from the consortium (Michele Vendruscolo,  University of Cambridge; Ehud Gazit, Tel Aviv University; and Kresten Lindorff-Larsen,  University of Copenhagen)  – will also be held. These conferences are open to the academic community and aim at sharing cutting-edge research within TWIN2PIPSA scientific field. Some of the topics will include the illustration of experimental and computational approaches applied to the study of the molecular aspects of protein aggregation and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease, biomedical and biotechnological applications of peptides and proteins, and the mechanisms of function loss underlying various conformational diseases.

More info about TWIN2PIPSA:

–  Project website 
–  Plenary conferences