Polymers and Parkinson's: Using soft condensed matter physics to explore neurobiology and disease
Alpha-synuclein, while infamous in its role in Parkinson's disease, lacks a distinct biological function. Join us in exploring how this chaotic, disordered protein potentially serves as a molecular traffic cop for organelles within the neuron.
Peter J. Chung is the Robert D. Beyer (‘81) Early Career Chair in the Natural Sciences and Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Southern California, with courtesy appointments in Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Medical Biophysics. He was previously a Kadanoff-Rice Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago studying proteins involved in Parkinson’s disease.
He received his PhD in Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara and undergraduate degrees in Physics and Materials Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
Sponsored by Remsen Bird Fund
