During his PhD studies, Peter Aasted Paulsen have investigated the sodium pump, responsible for the high intracellular concentrations of potassium, but low concentrations of sodium.
Peter have developed a new type of inhibitor that binds to a recently discovered regulatory site of the sodium pump, with a potential use in the treatment of a severe neurological disease, heart failure and cancer.
The PhD degree was completed at the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Science and Technology, Aarhus University.

This résumé is prepared by the PhD student.

Time: Monday 2 February 2015 at 14.15
Place: Building 1593, room 012, iNANO, Gustav Wieds Vej 14, Aarhus University.
Title of dissertation: Development of C-terminal regulators of the Na+,K+-ATPase & Functional and structural studies of a secretory pathway calcium ATPase
Contact information: Peter Aasted Paulsen, e-mail: peterap@mbg.au.dk, tel.: +4561389393
Members of the assessment committee:
Professor Dan Arne Klærke, Department of Veterinary Clinical and Animal Sciences, University of Copenhagen.
Associate professor Simon Newstead, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford.
Professor Claus Oxvig, Department of Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University (chair).
Main supervisor:
Professor Poul Nissen, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus university
Co-supervisor:
Senior Advisor Hanne Poulsen, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus university
Language: The PhD dissertation will be defended in English.