Date/Time
Date(s) - 22/03/2017
11.00 - 12.00
Location
Sala Segimon Serrallonga
Category(ies)
THEORETICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY
Adrià Gil
Centro de Química e Bioquímica, DQB, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Campo Grande 1749-016 Lisboa, Portugal, agmestres@fc.ul.pt
Nanobiotechnology is a very recent emerging multidisciplinary field involving biological research with various fields of nanotechnology. It enhances concepts as nanodevices, nanostructures and nanoscale phenomena that we find in nanotechnology and the most important objectives involve applying nanotools to relevant medical/biological problems and refining this application developing new tools for medical and biological purposes. This technical approach to biology allows scientists to imagine and create systems that can be used for biological research. Thus, computational studies on this very recent emerging and innovative field will help to complement experimental techniques and will result necessary and essential for a better understanding of several processes within this field. We applied some of the above mentioned innovative concepts in several fields: 1) to design improved drugs based on phenanthroline (phen) derivatives, 2) to understand the behavior of transition metal functionalized graphene and 3) to characterize uranyl polyoxometalates nanocapsules. Next step is to try to put together all these nanosystems in order to fight against antibiotic resistance.
