August 2010

Rein and Dek Woolfson are the co-editors of a new themed issue of Chemical Society Reviews: Peptide and protein based materials in 2010: from design and structure to function and application. This issue is packed with contributions from the leading laboratories in this exciting field.

August 2010

Rein Ulijn has been awarded a 1.5M Euro starting grant from the European Research Council. The grant will fund three postdoctoral researchers and will investigate "biocatalytic self-assembly" and its applications in biomedical and energy technologies.

July 2010

Lynsey's poster presentation was picked out as a highlight of the Challenges in Physical Chemistry and Nanoscience conference in Hungary by RSC blogger Philip Broadwith. He was impressed with her colorimetric elastase assay. Read more here.

March 2010

A new paper by Jan and Rein shows an enzyme-driven dynamic supramolecular peptide system which displays multiple reversible pathways. This system gives rise to emergent properties that are dictated by environmental conditions and that can be locked in a gel-state. Read more here.