Steve's Steve Street paper, our first on gene transfection using length-controlled nanofibers, is out in J. Am. Chem. Soc.! Collaborations included the Willerth Group (Dr. Willerth) at UVic Science and Rob Harniman and others at Bristol Chemistry in the UK! doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2…

The DBC is pleased to announce that J. Martin Bollinger of Penn State University has been chosen as the winner of the 2023 Abeles and Jencks Award for the Chemistry of Biological Processes. Congratulations to Prof. Bollinger!

Our paper on using Gln side chain to main chain hydrogen bonds to design customizable single α-helices for different applications is online in Nature Communications at rdcu.be/cZYtl

Peptide-based nanomaterials: Building back better sciencedirect.com/science/articl… This article was finally published...now I can temporarily retire from writing reviews. conticellolab Emory Chemistry

Congrats, truly seminal work! Since our initial discovery of bacterial histones, we too worked on the very same histone protein & now present its crystal structure & DNA-binding properties. Great work by Yimin, Birte & collaborators Marcus Hartmann @MPI_Bio doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…

Here is our reply to Derek Lovley where we challenge the existence of conductive e-pili cell.com/trends/microbi…

Check out our latest paper on ACS Synthetic Bio about designing phosphorylation-responsive coiled coil assemblies. Many congrats to Harry and co! Read it here: scholar.google.com/scholar_url?ur…

Super cool use of #AlphaFold from the world famous Feng Zhang lab to help them develop a novel molecular syringe that could act as a new type of drug delivery system that could potentially target things like cancer cells! genengnews.com/insights/natur…

Extraordinary crystal structure displays abiotic foldamer with unprecedented complexity: chemistryworld.com/news/extraordi…

Here is our paper showing microbial nanowires are ubiquitous and not restricted to Geobacter. cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

Mono-pilus (found in both rich and poor media) conforms to canonical archaeal T4P structures where all subunits are equivalent, whereas in the other filament, the tri-pilus (only found in poor media), its outer domain flips almost 180° and trimerizes on the pilus surface.

Please retweet!📢📢 We are looking to appoint a BBSRC-funded post-doctoral research associate to work in the area of de novo enzyme design with alpha-helical barrels using computational design, protein biochemistry, and directed evolution. More details below

Exciting opportunity to join the University of Bristol as a BBSRC-funded Research Associate (4 years) working between us and Mark Dodding's lab. The post is on designing de novo peptides and proteins using both rational design and computational design and protein biochemistry.