NCCR Lecture series: Hagan Bayley

20.11.2017 16:15 – 18:00

Hagan Bayley, Professor of Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford (UK) will give a talk on “Protein pores as nanoreactors for single-molecule chemistry” (UNIGE, Nov 20, 2017).

About the talk

Chemistry can be observed at the single-molecule level by using protein pores as “nanoreactors”. Non-covalent interactions observed in this way include the coordination of cations and anions and the binding of organic molecules to macrocyclic hosts. Covalent chemistry includes polymer chain elongation, complex reaction networks and molecular walking. Chemistry within protein nanopores is the basis of stochastic sensing, including the single-molecule sequencing of biopolymers.

About the speaker

Hagan Bayley is Professor of Chemical Biology at the University of Oxford. Major interests of his laboratory are the development of engineered pores for stochastic sensing, the study of covalent chemistry at the single molecule level, ultrarapid DNA sequencing and the fabrication of synthetic tissues. In 2011, Professor Bayley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2012, he was awarded the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Interdisciplinary Prize and in 2017, the Menelaus Medal of the Learned Society of Wales.