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University of New South Wales
ADFA Faculty
Canberra Australia
PhD Project
Modeling Protein Aggregation: From Alzheimer’s Disease and Nanoparticles to Food Processing
Interactions between proteins cause much of the diverse phenomena in biology. They determine how life works and when it goes wrong. The so-called amyloid diseases, such as Alzheimer’s and type II diabetes mellitus, are associated with the aggregation of slightly misfolded proteins into amyloid fibrils (needle-like fibers). It has now been established, that such structures can also be formed by proteins not implicated in the amyloid diseases. This suggests a common structural motif is responsible and that this can be potentially uncovered through appropriate modeling of protein interactions. External factors may also have a profound affect on the way proteins aggregate and recent experiments (by one of our collaborators) have shown that the presence of nanoparticles can promote fibril nucleation, but the mechanism remains unknown. Protein interactions are also important in technologies such as food processing. An important example are whey proteins, which remain as a dilute mixture in cow milk after cheese production. The large-scale post-processing of whey, to extract valuable protein components, is still in its infancy and more efficient routes to achieving targeted separation would revolutionize that industry. Thus the wide-ranging importance of protein interactions and aggregation has created a lot of interest in this field for both experimentalists and theoreticians.
In this project, we will develop novel models for protein interactions and use them to study important protein aggregation problems of the type described above. This project is part of a larger collaboration between researchers from UNSW@ADFA, Sweden and the USA.
Applicants with a background in Mathematics and Physical Chemistry, Physics or Engineering are encouraged to apply. Enquiries to: Associate Professor Cliff Woodward, School of Physical, Environmental and Mathematical Sciences, University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, ACT 2600.
Email: c.woodward@adfa.edu.au
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