U-M Protein Folding Disease Initiative

One of a kind, virtual center connecting experts at the University of Michigan on disorders of abnormal protein accumulations and protein quality control.

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TDP proteinopathy occurs in Niemann-Pick C disease, a neurodegenerative lysosomal storage disorder

Recently published paper from Dr. Andrew Lieberman's laboratory - https://t.co/6etmFZRYrr

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Anna Greka, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital Institute Member, Director, Kidney Disease Initiative, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, is our Seminar Series speaker for June.

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Brian Emmer, M.D., Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan is our Seminar Series speaker for May. Join us this Thursday.

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Qing Li, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Cell & Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan will be our Seminar Series speaker for April. Join us tomorrow, April 1.

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Fumihiko Urano, M.D., Ph.D., Professor at the Washington University School of Medicine, is our Seminar Series speaker for March. Join us this Thursday, March 4.

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Kenneth "Matt" Scaglione, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at Duke University is our Seminar Series Speaker, this Thursday, February 4, at 3 pm.

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Jared Rutter, Ph.D., Professor at the the University of Utah, will be our Seminar Series Speaker this Thursday, January 7, at 3 pm.

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Mervyn J. Monteiro, Ph.D., Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, will be our Seminar Series Speaker this Thursday, December 3, at 3 pm.

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Missed our 7th Annual Protein Folding Diseases Initiative Symposium on October 29??? Now you can watch all the incredible presentations here:

https://t.co/rCpJcDiBfL

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Join us this Thursday, November 5, via Zoom, when we welcome Nicholas T. Ktistakis, Ph.D., from the Babraham Institute, as our monthly Seminar Series Speaker

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7th Annual Protein Folding Diseases Initiative Symposium
Please join us, via Zoom, on Thursday, October 29, 2020 beginning at 12 noon. To register, click on this link https://t.co/S23NCYIJqi

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Check out the recent article from Andy Lieberman's lab, featuring Hank Paulson, too, related to Niemann-Pick type C disease

https://t.co/RsF9iKYY1s

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Join us at the PFD Seminar Series next Thursday, October 1, when we welcome Eric Huang, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, at UCSF!

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Congratulations to Samir Nath, from Andrew Lieberman's lab, who had his paper on MEF2 impairment underlies skeletal muscle atrophy in polyglutamine disease published!

https://t.co/6DdmZLCiKu

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Join us at the PFD Seminar Series this Thursday, March 5, when we welcome Dr. Stephanie Moon, Assistant Professor, in the Department of Human Genetics and the Center for RNA Biomedicine at U of M!

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Join us at the PFD Seminar Series tomorrow when we welcome Dr. Benjamin Glick as our guest speaker.