School of Chemistry Colloquium: Dr Imogen Riddell  Designing Metal-Organic Materials with Biological Applications in Mind

Metallosupramolecular chemistry has come a long way in the past decade enabling research focus to shift from understanding design rules to developing novel multimetallic structures for targeted applications.

Our research program aims to expand the range of cages that can be systematically constructed, through incorporation of heteroditopic ligands in self-assembly protocols. The reduced symmetry architectures generated present exciting opportunities which are yet to be realised by their more symmetric counterparts. Judicious choice and functionalisation of established architectures also enables us to embed functionality within more traditional structures and presents opportunities for metal-organic cages in peptide binding and cellular imaging.

This presentation will discuss our recent work in the above areas as well as research evaluating protein encapsulation, immobilisation and stabilisation within self-assembling metal-organic frameworks, which presents exciting biotechnological opportunities.

For details regarding the speaker and their research please visit imogenriddell.wixsite.com/riddellgroup