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Soft Interfaces Simulation Group

Welcome to the Soft Interfaces Simulation group, based in the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of Galway.

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5/9/23	Viswanath attended the 33rd ESB meeting in Davos, where he presented his work on adsorption of fibronectin fragments onto synthetic surfaces
4/9/23	Welcome to Martin and Grainne, who started their final year projects in the group
18/8/23	New paper on the aggregation of an amyloidogenic peptide on gold surfaces published in Biomolecules
26/7/23	David gave invited talk on 'Effect of Surface Chemistry on Peptide Conformation and Aggregation' at the Peptide Self-Assembly 2023 conference at the University of Manchester
23/6/23	Viswanath's paper on adsorption of heperin-binding domains of fibronectin onto hydrophobic surfaces published in Biophysica
19/6/23	Welcome to Martin who joined the group on a School of Biological and Chemical Sciences summer internship
13/9/22	David attended the EMLG/JMLG joint meeting at the University of Barcelona, giving a talk on 'Protein Conformation on Solid-Liquid Interfaces'
23/6/22	Paper on conformation of pilus-derived peptides on surfaces, in collaboration with the group of Adrian Keller (Paderborn) accepted into Langmuir
31/5/22	Kieran and David's paper on conformation of Amyloid Beta(16-22) on metal surfaces published in Biophysica
11/4/22	David visited the group of Prof. Wuge Briscoe in the School of Chemistry, University of Bristol and gave a seminar on 'Proteins on Material Surfaces'
1/10/21	Welcome to Viswanath who started his PhD in the group
6/9/21	Welcome to Casey, Edel, and Emer who join the group for their final year projects
2/11/20	New paper on the conformation of amyloid beta at the air-water interface accepted into Biointerphases
29/9/20	Welcome to Matthew, Sean, and Lara who (virtually) join the group for their final year projects and work placements
24/8/20	Paper on peptide adsorption onto stripy surfaces accepted into Chemical Physics Letters
11/8/20	Paper on the conformation of Islet Amyloid Polypeptide on surfaces accepted into Biointerphases and selected as Featured Article
29/7/20	David gave a talk on 'Proteins at Interfaces - Perspectives from Molecular Simuation' to the online ECIS Supramolecular and Colloidal Chemistry and Physics for the Life Sciences summer school
20/7/20	Welcome to Matthew who (virtually) joined the group for the summer
10/3/20	Paper on Self-assembly of Porphyrin Nanostructures at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces (joint work with the Scanlan group at University of Limerick) accepted into Journal of Physical Chemistry
10/3/20	Kieran attended the PRACE E-CAM Tutorial in Simulation and Machine Learning in Dublin