RICHARD NAPIER (19 – 22 June 2017)

University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

Molecular recognition is at the heart of Professor Napier´s group activities, in particular the binding and selectivity of hormones by their receptors. The team deals with two principal projects at present, the development of a new generation of biosensors for quantitating hormone concentrations in vivo, and the kinetic characterisation of the auxin receptor TIR1.  Biosensors combine a biological recognition domain with a physicochemical output unit. Like receptor proteins, recognition domains need to recognise analytes with appropriate sensitivity and selectivity and the team is collecting suitable hormone sensor elements.

More information at:  https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/lifesci/people/rnapier/