Ebba Biotech welcomes you to tune in to our webinar featuring Dr. Timothy Audas from Simon Fraser University. Dr. Audas will present his research using Amytracker to explore the detection of functional amyloids in stress-treated mammalian cells.
Dr. Audas is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair at Simon Fraser University. In the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, his team studies stress response pathways that eukaryotic cells use to cope with harsh environmental conditions. Their primary focus is understanding the formation/function of natural amyloid aggregates, which share many biophysical characteristics with the toxic plaques and tangles that form in patients suffering from Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Huntington’s diseases. Dr. Audas hopes that gaining insight into how these physiological amyloids assemble and disassemble will lead to the development of new therapeutic strategies for the treatment of debilitating neurodegenerative disorders. (Read more about Dr. Audas' work on his groups: website