Annalisa Pastore, Professor in Molecular Basis of Neurodegeneration at King's College London, will deliver the 2nd annual C Moreschi lecture on Monday the 2nd of March 2015. The lecture, entitled The structural basis of disease will address the importance of understanding the consequences of mutations in protein-coding genes on the three-dimensional structure of gene products and how the changes caused by mutation cause disease processes. The poster of the event may be downloaded here. The lecture is open to all interested people.
Annalisa Pastore is an Italian scientist with a first degree and a PhD degree in Chemistry from the University of Naples. She carried out post-doctoral research in NMR protein structure with Ian Campbell, become a junior group leader at EMBL (Heidelberg( and in 1997 she was appointed group and programme leader at the NIMR Instute of the UK MRC in Mill Hill (London). She is a Professor at King's College London since October 2013.
