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[HT-04-2]Structural and biochemical classification of pathological TDP-43 extracted from FTLD-TDP brains
Airi Tarutani (Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan)

Airi Tarutani is a researcher in Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Sciences. She holds a Ph.D. in Science from Tokyo Metropolitan University and worked at Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science and the University of Tokyo, University Medical Center Göttingen as a postdoctoral fellow. Her work focuses on the structural and biochemical properties of tau, α-synuclein and TDP-43 extracted from human brains, and prion-like behaviors of these pathogenic proteins.