“Propose good science.”<br/><br/>This was the advice Tim gave me when I was starting to prepare faculty applications. At the time, combining peptide materials into block copolymers was relatively new, but this seemed like an interesting area of research for me to think outside of my ‘experimental box.’ Throughout this journey, I have been privileged to have Tim as a mentor, role model, and colleague. Congratulations for this well-deserved award!<br/><br/>This talk will present some recent work from my group on the synthesis and characterization of peptide block copolymers, including those containing recombinant proteins. These nanostructured materials are able to self-assemble into responsive micelles and vesicles, organogels, and fractals. Assemblies are characterized using light scattering, and the addition of spectroscopic probes into these polymers gives a handle to interrogate local hydrophobicity at the interface of the assembly under different solution conditions. This work will be presented in the context of how Tim has impacted my own scientific and educational philosophy.

Self-assembly of responsive polypeptide block copolymers

255th National Meeting (2018)

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