Speaker    Nicolas Winssinger (Organic chemistry department, University of Geneva)
 

Title          PNA-programmed Self Assemblies in Chemical Biology
 

Time         Nov. 2nd, 14:00-15:30
 

Venue       E-104
 

Host          Wenlu Zheng, Prof. Xiaoyu Li  

Web of the speaker：http://www.unige.ch/sciences/chiorg/winssinger/
 

Abstract
 

The programmable nature of nucleic acid hybridization has inspired a number of applications beyond their natural function in heredity.  Peptide Nucleic Acids (PNA) are endowed with attractive properties for this endeavor as they are more robust and form more stable duplex than their natural counter parts. Several applications from our laboratory to program self-assemblies of small molecules, template chemical reactions or display multimeric ligands will be presented.