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SUMMARY:Supramolecular Assemblies: Tools to Understand Biological Interfac
 ial Interactions
DTSTART:20110407T171500
DTSTAMP:20260407T055835Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Francesco Stellacci\nMost surfaces of folded proteins an
 d hence of any proteic complex present a fine coexistence of hydrophobic a
 nd hydrophilic domains at a length scale that is commensurate with the siz
 e of a few small molecules. In this talk I will illustrate my personal end
 eavor in producing materials whose surface presents a coexistence of hydro
 phobic and hydrophilic groups at the same length scale and in using these 
 materials to understand what fundamental properties this coexistence provi
 des the assembly. In particular I will present nanoparticles that behave a
 s cell penetring peptides and have a driving force towards the spontaneous
  fusion with lipid bilayers in general and cell membrane specifically.
LOCATION:Polydôme
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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