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SUMMARY:"Protein Self-Assembly by Chemical Design"
DTSTART:20180620T110000
DTEND:20180620T123000
DTSTAMP:20260510T213000Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Akif Tezcan\, UCSD\nAbstract:\nProteins represent the most ver
 satile building blocks available to living organisms or the laboratory sci
 entist for constructing functional materials and molecular devices. Underl
 ying this versatility is an immense structural and chemical heterogeneity 
 that renders the programmable self-assembly of proteins an extremely chall
 enging design task. To circumvent the challenge of designing extensive non
 -covalent interfaces for controlling protein self-assembly\, we have endea
 voured to use chemical bonding strategies based on fundamental principles 
 of inorganic and supramolecular chemistry. These strategies have resulted 
 in discrete or infinite\, 1-\, 2- and 3D protein architectures that displa
 y high structural order over large length scales (yet are dynamic/adaptive
  and stimuli-responsive) and possess new emergent chemical\, physical and 
 functional properties. In this talk\, I will present some of the recent pr
 otein-based materials and architectures constructed in our laboratory.
LOCATION:BCH 3118 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BCH%203118
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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