The Linderstrøm-Lang Centre for Protein Research is proud to invite you for the 10 year anniversary of the Linderstrøm-Lang Symposium. The symposium will take place 15 November 2024 at hotel Radisson Blu Scandinavia in Copenhagen.

This year, we have assembled a program focusing on protein design as the ultimate proof of our understanding of protein behavior. We are grateful to the speakers, who has all accepted our invitation to create a program adressing fundamental aspects of protein design and engineering as well as examples of applications to health and sustainability challenges. We have increased the focus on young scientists and give them more opportunity to present their posters. Also we have extended the symposium with a symposium dinner at the venue. We hope that you will join us for this anniversary celebration. See and download the program for 2024 here.

Participation is free of charge, but requires registration. Sign up here.

The 2024 Symposium features talks by the following speakers:

• Anastassia Vorobieva (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) has specialized in the design of transmembrane beta-barrel proteins with seminal work in the group of David Baker at the Protein Design Institute, Seattle, USA. She has recently started her own group at the Free University, Brussels on the same topic.
• Andrea Thorn (Universität Hamburg, Germany) is a highly versatile scientist working mainly in crystallography, applying machine learning principles to improve structure determination. She has been a driving force in elucidation of key proteins in the SARS CoV-2 virus, the “Coronavirus Structural Task Force”.
• Birte Höcker (Universität Bayreuth, Germany) is one of the most esteemed members of the European protein design community. Her group bridges the gap between computational, structural and molecular biology to develop new tools for protein engineering and design.
• Daniel Otzen (Aarhus University, Denmark) is one of the most prominent and prolific scientists within the area of protein biophysics in Denmark. His early works with Alan Fersht at Cambridge are classics in the field. His interests have recently turned towards developing enzymes for sustainable recycling of plastics such as PET and polyurethane.
• Derek Woolfson (Bristol University) uses chemical methods and principles to understand biological phenomena such as protein folding and stability.  He has a long-standing interest in the challenge of rational and computational protein design, and how they can be applied in synthetic biology and biotechnology. 
• Laura Itzhaki (Cambridge University, UK) is doing pioneering work on tandem repeat proteins intersecting with pharmacology and drug-development. These proteins have very distinctive architectures, allowing them to be rationally redesigned for stability, folding and binding function. 
• Sarel Fleishmann (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) has, amongst many other things, developed a web server software tool termed PROSS, specifically for the task of improving the stability of proteins. This is one of the most successful endeavors in this direction and includes a combination of knowledge-based and physics-based computational approaches.

We are looking for sponsors for the 2024 Linderstrøm-Lang meeting. If you would like to support the event please contact caspar.christensen@bio.ku.dk.

The 2024 symposium is supported by a grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation.