Federation Fellowships - Grant ID: FF0455865

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/FF0455865

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Self organization in (bio)molecular systems: Simulating the folding and aggregation of peptides, proteins and lipids. Molecular self-assembly is a basic property of living systems. Most proteins fold spontaneously and then further self-organize into functional complexes, effectively biological machines. Understanding how this occurs is a fundamental theoretical challenge with widespread application. Work will focus on developing methodology to simulate, computationally, the folding and aggregation of peptides, proteins, and lipids. The aim is to accurately predict the structures of small peptides in solution and to refine crude models of larger molecules (complexes). This will facilitate the development of peptide based therapeutics and is essential in exploiting the growing volume of genetic information in biology and medicine.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-02-2005

End Date: 31-01-2010

Funding Scheme: Federation Fellowships

Funding Amount: $1,519,710.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Other Physical Sciences | Theoretical And Computational Chemistry Not Elsewhere Classified | Characterisation Of Macromolecules | Biophysics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Treatments (e.g. chemicals, antibiotics) | Biological sciences | Chemical sciences |

Other Keywords

Biological sciences | Biophysics | Characterisation Of Macromolecules | Chemical sciences | Other Physical Sciences | Theoretical And Computational Chemistry Not Elsewhere Classified | Treatments (e.g. chemicals, antibiotics)

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