Ben Hardy, a Research Associate in the School of Biochemistry at the University of Bristol, won a prize for his poster at the Synthetic Biology UK conference (7-8 November 2022).
Summarising work from his PhD, Ben’s poster (Computational Design of a de novo Transmembrane Cytochrome) highlights the successful design of an artificial protein capable of electron transport within membranes – such a protein is an essential component for constructing novel bioenergetic complexes within cells.
This was Ben’s second poster success this year – he won first prize at the Advances in Protein Folding, Evolution & Design conference (April 2022) for the poster: ‘Computational design of Bioenergetic Membrane Proteins’ (pictured).
Ben completed his PhD as part of the SynBio CDT cohort, and his work was supported by BBSRC, EPSRC and BrisSynBio.