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Dr. Talaga's research program focuses on the heterogeneity in protein conformation, particularly as proteins aggregate into various intermediates that lead to amyloid formation. Dr. Talaga's group develops measurements that can distinguish protein conformation through different aggregation states. A significant part of their efforts includes solving experimental and theoretical challenges that arise in measuring and interpreting such heterogeneous systems. These problems not only confound characterization of amyloidogenesis, but also appear in most protein systems, making these ancillary developments important to many other fields.