FoldNetUK is excited to announce the first instalment of its Themed Online Seminar series. These will take place twice a year, with one established speaker from two themes, and two early career speakers from the third. The focus of these will rotate.
About
Date: Wednesday 19 November 2025
Time: 14:00 – 15:40 (GMT)
Location / Format: Teams Invite: Please register for the network to receive a Teams invite. If you are a registered member and have not received an invite, please email foldnetuk@kcl.ac.uk
Chair: Professor Scott Cockroft, FoldNetUK Theme Three (Materials) Lead, University of Edinburgh
IT Support: Eva Wyles, FoldNetUK Network Coordinator
Speakers
Theme one (Biological)
- Dr. K. H. Aaron Lau, Senior Lecturer, University of Strathclyde, abstract title to come
Theme two (Catalysis)
- Professor Luca Gabrielli, Associate Professor, University of Padova, “Folding at the Nanoscale: Responsive Gold Nanoparticles for Spatially Resolved ATP Detection”
Theme three (Materials)
Early Career Researcher focus
- Dr Meagan Beatty, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Toulouse Biotechnology Institute, “Self-synthesizing foldamers catalyze the formation of coacervates that promote their catalytic efficiency”
- Dr Yunxuan Li, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, “Nanopore detection of single-nucleotide RNA mutations and modifications with programmable nanolatches”