For six weeks this summer, Silas D. Childs Professsor of Chemistry Robin Kinnel and his research group hosted French master's candidate Aurélien Forget, who attends Université Pierre et Marie Curie. Forget explored the solution structure of a cyclic nonapeptide that is active against estrogen-mediated breast cancer as part of a larger study seeking compounds useful against this kind of cancer.
Professor George Shields and his group have been instrumental in predicting structures of active peptides using computational study, but no studies exploring their solution structures experimentally have been done on any of the peptides. This internship arose through the cooperation of the department chair and the Junior Year in France program, which was trying to create opportunities for Hamilton science students to participate in the program. The description of the research opportunity was circulated to universities in France and the responses were forwarded to Kinnel, who made the final selection.
Kinnel says, "The opportunity to work with Aurélien was unusual for me, and it turned out extremely well. Aurélien was able to make a significant contribution to the project."
Professor George Shields and his group have been instrumental in predicting structures of active peptides using computational study, but no studies exploring their solution structures experimentally have been done on any of the peptides. This internship arose through the cooperation of the department chair and the Junior Year in France program, which was trying to create opportunities for Hamilton science students to participate in the program. The description of the research opportunity was circulated to universities in France and the responses were forwarded to Kinnel, who made the final selection.
Kinnel says, "The opportunity to work with Aurélien was unusual for me, and it turned out extremely well. Aurélien was able to make a significant contribution to the project."
