Supramolecular Assemblies: Tools to Understand Biological Interfacial Interactions
Event details
| Date | 07.04.2011 |
| Hour | 17:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Francesco Stellacci |
| Location |
Polydôme
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| Category | Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture |
Most surfaces of folded proteins and hence of any proteic complex present a fine coexistence of hydrophobic and hydrophilic domains at a length scale that is commensurate with the size of a few small molecules. In this talk I will illustrate my personal endeavor in producing materials whose surface presents a coexistence of hydrophobic and hydrophilic groups at the same length scale and in using these materials to understand what fundamental properties this coexistence provides the assembly. In particular I will present nanoparticles that behave as cell penetring peptides and have a driving force towards the spontaneous fusion with lipid bilayers in general and cell membrane specifically.
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
Contact
- Véronique Bridel