Polymer Chemistry, Say Hello to the Ribosome
Professor Alanna Schepartz will describe efforts at UC Berkeley to build sequence-defined chemical polymers, a new form of chemical matter that combines the encoded precision of bio-polymers with the imagination-inspired diversity of synthetic materials. Missed it? View the recording.
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Professor Alanna Schepartz’s research has contributed to and shaped thinking in multiple areas, including the mechanisms of protein-DNA recognition and transcriptional activation; protein design and engineering and their application to synthetic biology; and the complex process by which chemical information is communicated across biological membranes. Schepartz is widely recognized for the pioneering design of miniature proteins and b-peptide bundles, the first and only example of a protein-like architecture that lacks even a single a-amino acid.