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Dr. Paulo Almeida

  • Mechanism and kinetics of action of amphipathic defense peptides: how antimicrobial peptides and bacterial toxins attack their target cells.

  • Understanding biological membrane function: domain formation in fluid phospholipid membranes. 

  • Cooperative magnification of small protein-lipid interactions and their functional consequences.

Dr. Antje Almeida

  • oFunction and specificity of antimicrobial and cytotoxic peptides.

  • oMovement of charged peptides across hydrophobic barriers.

  • oStructure of bacterial membranes

 

 Dr. Chris Halkides

  • Chemical modification of signal transduction proteins

  • Crystallization of proteins

  • Synthesis of inhibitors against enzymes involved in amino acid biosynthesis

  • Testing of biodiesel