New Tools for Proteostasis Research
About Us
The Proteostasis Consortium is a group of investigators who have worked together on proteostasis in biology, health, and diseases. Together, we have contributed fundamental insights on biochemical mechanisms of protein quality control, on cellular and organismal processes, the effects of healthy and unhealthy aging, disease mechanisms, and the development of therapeutic approaches to suppress or delay diseases of protein conformation.
Members of the Proteostasis Consortium include Steve Finkbeiner at the Gladstone Institutes at the University of California San Francisco, Dan Finley at Harvard Medical School, Judith Frydman at Stanford University, Jason Gestwicki at the University of California San Francisco, Jeff Kelly at The Scripps Research Institute, Richard I. Morimoto at Northwestern University, Evan Powers at The Scripps Research Institute, and Miguel Prado at the Instituto de Investigación Sanitari del Principado de Asturia.
We are funded by many sources including the NIH, the Hevolution Foundation, Altos Labs, and The Rainwater Charitable Foundation.
Team of Scientists
Steven Finkbeiner, MD, PhD
Director, Center for Systems and
Therapeutics & Taube/Koret Center
for Neurodegenerative Disease,
Gladstone Institutes
Professor, Departments of
Neurology and Physiology,
University of California, San Francisco
Daniel Finley, PhD
Professor of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
Judith Frydman, PhD
Donald Kennedy Chair in the School of Humanities and Sciences
Professor of Genetics and Biology
Stanford University
Jason Gestwicki, PhD
Associate Director of Academic Affairs
Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
University of California, San Francisco
Jeffery Kelly, PhD
Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Chemistry
The Scripps Research Institute
Richard I. Morimoto, PhD
Bill and Gayle Cook Professor of Biology
Director, Rice Institute for
Biomedical Research
Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University
Evan Powers, PhD
Institute Investigator
Department of Chemistry
California Campus
Scripps Research
Miguel Prado, PhD
Institute Investigator
Proteomics and Proteostasis group
Asturias, Spain
Health Research Institute of Asturias (ISPA)
Announcements
2026 Proteostasis Consortium Seminar Series Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Seminar Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 7, 2026 | Anne Brunet | Stanford University | Quantifying and targeting aging |
| January 14, 2026 | David Holtzman | Washington University School of Medicine | The Role of APOE and the immune response in Amyloid-induced Tauopathy and Tau-mediated Neurodegeneration |
| January 28, 2026 | Michael Petrascheck | Scripps Research Institute | TBA |
| February 4, 2026 | David Glass | Regeneron | TBA |
| February 18, 2026 | Erika Holzbauer | University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine | TBA |
| March 4, 2026 | Reut Shalgi | Rappaport Institute of Medical Research | TBA |
| March 11, 2026 | Ruth Scherz-Shouval | Weizmann Institute of Science | TBA |
| March 18, 2026 | Ulrich Hartl | Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry | Observing chaperone machines in intact cells |
| March 25, 2026 | Thorsten Hoppe | University of Cologne | Organellar Proteostasis Mechanisms |
| April 1, 2026 | Elif Karagoez | University of Vienna | TBA |
| April 15, 2026 | David Vilchez | University of Cologne | TBA |
| May 6, 2026 | Adrien Rousseau | University of Dundee | TBA |
| June 10, 2026 | Danny Nedialkova | Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry | TBA |
| June 17, 2026 | Matthew Shoulders | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | TBA |
| December 2, 2026 | Claudio Joazeiro | Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH) | TBA |
PROTEOSTASIS CONSORTIUM WEEKLY SEMINAR SERIES (VIA ZOOM)
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