我们荣幸邀请到香港科技大学的孙飞教授为我们带来主题为“Synthetic Biology Approaches toward Diverse Protein Materials”的精彩报告，欢迎感兴趣的同事踊跃参加并积极交流。

一、讲座相关信息如下：

报告题目： Synthetic Biology Approaches toward Diverse Protein Materials

报告人：Prof. Fei SUN Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

报告时间：10月16日（星期二）13:30-14:30

报告地点：国家基因库203-204会议室

二、讲座主要内容

讲座摘要

A central question facing the bottom-up approach toward material design is how to faithfully transfer the function at the molecular level to the material properties at the macroscopic level. In the past years, there has been a growing trend of designing functional materials with dynamically tunable properties. These 'smart' materials necessitate a new level of control over the structural and functional properties of macromolecules as well as their interactions with external stimuli. Although natural evolution has led to the creation of a vast number of protein molecules with extraordinary structural and functional diversity, such an ecological diversity has yet to be fully utilized to design and create macroscopic ‘smart’ materials. Taking advantage of a new category of protein chemistries—genetically encoded click chemistry, we focus on the development of protein materials through the combined use of cellular synthesis and directed assembly of recombinant protein molecules, which has led to a variety of applications ranging from tissue engineering to environmental remediation.

主讲嘉宾介绍：

Dr. Fei Sun is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Before joining HKUST in 2014, Dr. Fei Sun worked as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Frances H. Arnold at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry at the University of Chicago in 2012 and a B.Sc. degree at Peking University in 2007. His work has been recognized with several awards, including the Chicago Biomedical Consortium Scholar Award and The Everett E. Gilbert Memorial Prize in Organic Chemistry.

孙飞教授目前担任香港科技大学化学及生物工程系的博导和助理教授。他于2007年获得北京大学化学学士学位， 2012年获得芝加哥大学化学系博士学位， 2012-2014年间在加州理工担任博士后研究员，从事蛋白质工程及定向进化方面的研究，2014年入职香港科技大学致力于利用合成生物学发展新型的蛋白质水凝胶材料。