APS Colloquium

• When:  Wednesday, November 13, 2024 @ 3:00 p.m.
• Where: APS Building 402, Auditorium
• Title: Quo Vadis, Structural Biology?

Andrzej Joachimiak is an Argonne Distinguished Fellow, Director of the Structural Biology Center at X-ray Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, and Professor at the University of Chicago. He received his M.S. in chemistry (1974), and Ph. D. in bioorganic chemistry (1980) at the University of Adam Mickiewicz, Poznan. He was Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago 1980-1986; adjunct in the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Poznan (1986-1989) and research professor, at Yale University (1990-93). He received his D.Sc. in molecular biology from the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (1991). In 1993 Dr. Joachimiak joined Argonne and become a University of Chicago professor in 2004. His research focuses on protein structure and function, molecular basis of diseases, enzyme catalysis, and protein interactions. He combines these approaches with biochemical and functional analyses to study biological systems at the atomic level. Andrzej has also contributed to the field of structural genomics. The Argonne-based Midwest Center for Structural Genomics was a highly successful program and component of the NIH-funded Protein Structure Initiative that developed structural biology technologies using synchrotron radiation. The Center determined over 1,000 unique protein structures.

View the slide for an abstract of the talk. Please contact Olaf Borkiewicz or Karolina Michalska if you would like to meet with the speaker before or after the talk.

Off-site visitors, please contact Anita Garcia (630-252-5305) to arrange for a gate pass.

Suggestions for speakers and feedback should be directed to Esen E. Alp, Olaf J. Borkiewicz (Chair), Diego M. Casa, Louis Emery, Dillon D. Fong, Ross J. Harder, Martin Holt, Byeongdu Lee, Ann Marie March, Jessica L. McChesney (past chair), Karolina Michalska, and Venkat Srinivasan.