Prof. Claudia Andrea Blindauer

Lecture topics: ''The impact of Nan-esterified Fatty Acids on Zinc Speciation and Dynamics in Blood Plasma''

Professor at of Chemistry at the University of Warwick, UK. Her research concerns structure, dynamics and function of proteins involved in metal (in particular zinc) homeostasis in a variety of biological systems, including bacteria, plants and animals. Her team’s biophysical (NMR spectroscopy and native ESI-MS), bioanalytical (metallomics and metalloproteomics), bioinformatics (genome mining and structural modelling) and cell culture approaches have given insights on zinc sensing, uptake and storage into cyanobacterial cells, discrimination between zinc and cadmium by plant and invertebrate metallothioneins, and mammalian blood plasma zinc speciation and its impact on cellular uptake into cells.