Miss Aimee Horsfall

PhD Student The Braggs, Level 1, Pod 1, WS50 The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia mailing address c/o Physical Sciences The University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA, Australia Research Group: ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale BioPhotonics   Webpage: https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/aimee.horsfall Email: link

Current Research Activities

The main research focus of my PhD encompasses synthesising peptides to probe protein-protein interaction sites. This information allows us to design and then synthesise constrained peptides, with restricted secondary structure, to act as competitive inhibitors of disease-related protein-protein interactions. I also look at how we can better detect these compounds within a biological system by using fluorescent peptide constraints as part of my work with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale Biophotonics (CNBP) and the Institute for Photonics & Advanced Sensing (IPAS).