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SUMMARY:Bioengineering Department Seminar with Professor Silvia Marchesan
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE: \n\nThis seminar is IN PERSON ONLY in room RSM 
 2.28\, Second Floor\, Royal School of Mines at Imperial’s South Kensingt
 on campus. Click here for the South Kensington campus map.\nRefreshments a
 nd networking will follow this seminar in RSM 3.24.\n\n\nGUEST SPEAKER: \
 nProfessor Silvia Marchesan\, PI of the Superstructures Lab\, University o
 f Trieste\nTALK TITLE: \nChirality shapes matter: the landscape of nanoma
 terials for minimalistic peptides\nABSTRACT:\nMinimalistic peptides compos
 ed of 2-3 amino acids are attractive building blocks for (nano)materials\,
  by virtue of their low-cost\, ease of preparation also on a large scale\,
  great physico-chemical diversity\, possibility to interact with enzymes a
 nd cells\, and biodegradability. They can self-organize under a variety of
  conditions\, including green solvents\, to give rise to various macroscop
 ic materials\, spanning from gels to crystals\,1 and even biomolecular gla
 ss.2\,3 \nOur research group specializes in the design\, characterization 
 and application of these simple molecules\, whereby amino acid chirality t
 ailors peptide conformation\, thus\, the ability to self-organize into div
 erse nanomorphologies\, spanning from nanoparticles\,4 to nanorods\,4 nano
 fibrils\,1 and single- or multi-walled nanotubes of varying diameter.5-6 A
 pplications span widely\, from catalysis1\,7 (photo-\, organo-\, and bio-)
 \, to extracellular matrix mimicry to guide cell behavior\,8 molecular or 
 ion separation\,9 or formulation stabilizers for biotherapeutics.10\nRefer
 ences\n[1]   S. Adorinni\, et al. ACS Nano 2024\, 18\, 3011.\n[2]   G.
  Finkelstein-Zuta\, et al. Nature 2024\, 630\, 368.\n[3]   S. Marchesan\
 , Nature 2024\, 630\, 308.\n[4]   A. M. Garcia\, et al. ACS Nano 2021\, 
 15\, 3015.\n[5]   O. Bellotto\, et al. Biomacromolecules 2024\, 25\, 247
 6.\n[6]   A. Blanco-Gómez\, et al. Nanoscale 2026\, doi:10.1039/D5NR040
 76K.\n[7]   P. Alletto\, et al. Faraday Discuss. 2025\, 260\, 389.\n[8]
    M. C. Cringoli\, et al. Chem. Commun. 2020\, 56\, 3015.\n[9]   M. L
 i\, et al. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024\, 63\, e202406909.\n[10] B. Rosetti\
 , et al. Nanoscale 2024\, 16\, 11081.\n\nBIOGRAPHY:\nProfessor Silvia Marc
 hesan holds a PhD in Chemistry from The University of Edinburgh (2008\, UK
 )\, and professional qualifications as Pharmaceutical Chemist (2007\, UK) 
 & Pharmacist (2006\, Italy). She was an honorary researcher at UCL (London
 \, 2005-2007)\, Academy of Finland Fellow at the University of Helsinki (2
 008-2010)\, and a CRSS Fellow jointly at Monash University and the Commonw
 ealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation\, CSIRO (Melbourne\, 201
 0-2012). In 2013\, she returned to the University of Trieste\, where her s
 cientific adventure had started with the M.Sc. degree (honours). In 2018\,
  she became an Associate Professor and in 2025\, a Full Professor. In 2021
 -2022 (6 mo.)\, she was a Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridg
 e (UK). Member of the Advisory Board of Chem\, J. Mater. Chem. B\, Chem. E
 ur. J.\, ACS Appl. Bio Mater.\, Mater. Adv. Associate Editor of ChemComm (
 2026-). \nRecent awards: Silver Seal by the Italian Chemical Society Young
  Section (2024)\, Career Award by the Proteomass Scientific Society (Portu
 gal\, 2024)\, RSC Soft Matter Lectureship (UK\, 2021)\, Howard Lecture (UK
 \, 2020)\, Aulin-Erdtman Lecture (Sweden\, 2019)\, Top-11 Rising Star in t
 he natural sciences worldwide (Nature Index\, 2018)\, Vittorio Erspamer Aw
 ard (Italian Peptide Society\, 2017).
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/208863/bioengineering-department-semi
 nar-with-professor-silvia-marchesan/
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LOCATION:RSM 2.28\, Second Floor\, Royal School Of Mines\, South Kensington
  Campus\, Imperial College London\, London\, SW7 2AZ\, United Kingdom
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