Please visit www.nesba.net to register for this special evening to honor Michael Rossmann.
The abstract for the talk is below, we have limited seating capacity and are currently about half-full, please register soon if you plan to attend.




Myoglobin and haemoglobin: The first three dimensional protein structures.
A personal first hand account will be given of the events leading to the determination of the sperm whale myoglobin and horse oxy-haemoglobin structures in 1959. The results provided the first verification of Darwin’s theory of evolution at a molecular level. They also indicated how haemoglobin bound oxygen in lungs and released oxygen in tissue. The techniques developed for these investigations formed the foundation of modern structural biology, resulting in more than 50,000 near atomic resolution structures that are now deposited in the Protein Data Bank.


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