Colorado State UniversityからChristopher D. Snow博士をお迎えして、すずかけ台キャンパスにてセミナーを開催いたします。宜しくご参集のほど、お願い申し上げます。

日  　時	2019年9月2日（月）16:00～17:30
場  　所	すずかけ台キャンパス　B2棟426講義室 https://www.titech.ac.jp/maps/suzukakedai/
講演題目	“Engineered Protein Scaffold Crystals for Sensing, Delivery, Hybrid Materials, and Structure Determination”

Abstract: Engineering protein crystals offers a less explored pathway to create and test the properties of highly precise nanostructured materials. To avoid the technical challenge of forming crystals from diverse proteins, we instead grow scaffold crystals with large nanopores (~13 nm diameter) and stabilize the scaffold using covalent crosslinks. The resulting “molecular pegboard” materials can capture and organize functional guest molecules: enzymes for catalysis, fluorescent proteins for sensing, DNA for barcoding, and inorganic particles for hybrid materials. Unlike other porous materials, a crystalline scaffold may ultimately organize guest molecule with sufficient precision so as to allow structure determination via X-ray diffraction.