Event
Harnessing Inteins in Chemical Biology: From Ligases to Transposases and Logic Gates
The School of Life Sciences Peter Garland Lecture 2025 by Tom Muir, Van Zandt Williams Jr. Class of 1965 Professor of Chemistry. Princeton University
Monday 27 January 2025
University of Dundee
Dow Street
Dundee DD1 5HL
Host: Professor Claire Halpin
Venue: MSI Large Lecture Theatre, SLS
Biography:
Professor Muir is a chemical biologist known for his contributions to the fields of peptide and protein chemistry. Chemistry-driven technologies developed in his group open up the world of proteins to the tools of organic chemistry by allowing the incorporation of non-coded elements including unnatural amino acids, posttranslational modifications and isotopic probes site-specifically into proteins. These approaches are now widely employed in academia and industry. His current research interests lie principally in the area of epigenetics, where he uses chemical biology approaches to illuminate how chemical changes to chromatin are linked to different cellular phenotypes.