Structural Biology of Amyloid Fibrils

Vijay Kumar, Ph.D. has been Assistant Professor in Amity University, since 2018. He obtained his PhD in Biophysics from All India Institute of Medical sciences, New Delhi, India and did his Postdoctoral training from the university of Massachusetts Medical school, Massachusetts, USA. His postdoctoral research was focused on folding and aggregation studies of proteins, SOD1 and TDP-43 involved in motor neuron disease, ALS and FTD. Back to India, he worked as a Principal Investigator under DST-SERB Young Scientist Scheme in Jamia Millia Islamia (A central university), New Delhi. His present research interests focus on the area of folding, misfolding and aggregation of proteins and the role of toxic RNA species involved in the Neurodegenerative Diseases. Dr. Kumar is a member of the Protein Society, Indian Biophysical Society (IBS), Indian Academy of Neurosciences (IAN), and the International society for Neurochemistry (ISN). He had a Junior Research Fellowship/Senior Research fellowship (SRF) from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India and a DAAD Fellowship, Germany.

Dr Galzitskaya is a specialist in molecular biology, biophysics, and bioinformatics, and author of over 200 scientific papers, including 11 articles in the Atlas of Science. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the journals "Current Protein and Peptide Science", "The Open Biochemistry Journal", "The Open Bioinformatics Journal", "The Open Journal of Biochemistry", "Austin Biometrics and Biostatistics", "World Journal of Biological Chemistry" until 2017, "Scientific Pages of Alzheimer's Disease & Dementia", and editor of the "Journal of Alzheimer's Disease" from 2015-2019. She is also member of the expert council of the Russian Science Foundation in biology and the scientific council of the Institute of Protein Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her research interests include folding and misfolding of proteins resulting in the development of pathologies in the body of an aging person (including the analysis and formation of fibrils in Alzheimer's), systems biology and bioinformatics, mechanisms of aging and protein levels, early stages of Alzheimer's, and the creation of antimicrobial peptides. She is currently Head of Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Proteomics at the Russian Academy of Sciences in the Institute of Protein Research.