Blagojce Jovcevski The 42nd Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function 2017

Blagojce Jovcevski

Blagojce (BJ) utilises molecular biology and biophysical approaches to rationalise protein function and dysfunction in the context of protein homeostasis. He completed his PhD at the University of Wollongong (2017), as well as the laboratories of Prof. Justin Benesch and Prof. Dame Carol Robinson FRS at the University of Oxford, focusing on the structure and dynamics of molecular chaperone proteins by native MS. He moved to the University of Adelaide under Prof. Tara Pukala where he leveraged structural proteomics to understand the aggregation dynamics of amyloidogenic proteins. BJ was also an Associate Investigator for the Research Consortia of Agricultural Product Development, bringing together academic and industry partners from the agriculture and food sector to develop high-value products from agricultural and food waste. BJ then joined the School of Biological Sciences, Adelaide University (2023), and established his group focusing on the mechanisms, therapeutic potential and molecular networks regulating protein homeostasis in the gut-brain axis and its role in Parkinson’s disease and MND/ALS.