The report of the young scientist was heard

On March 5, 2019, at the Institute of Biophysics of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences was held next seminar.

The seminar was opened by director of the institute, corresponding member of ANAS, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, professor Oktay Gasymov, who spoke  about the importance of the topic and the necessity of conducting modern research in this direction, and then gave word to the head of the laboratory of the Ecological biophysics, Dr. Biology, prof. Tokay Huseynov. In his speech, the professor gave information about the young scientist and spoke about the research conducted on this topic.

Then was heard the report of the junior research scientist of the laboratory “Ecological Biophysics” Zarifa Osmanli on the topic “Molecular-bioinformatics analysis of the prion gene in buffalo populations (Anatolian Murrah), molecular level study of selenoproteins and their role in cancer diseases”.

First reporter gives information about the conducted researches on prion diseases, further spoke about the analysis of the ORF region of PRNP gene encoding PrP protein associated with prion diseases in buffalo populations by bioinformatics methods, estimation of post-translational modification probabilities of PrP protein and comparative analysis with cow PRNP gene.

Young scientist also told about the possibility of applying bioinformatics methods for collaborative work in the laboratory, gave detailed information about the 21st and 22nd amino acids, their incorporation into proteins, the study of selenoproteins at the molecular level and their current state at cancers diseases in recent studies.

In conclusion, the discussion was made, questions were answered.

05 March 2019

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