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Award-winning speaker to be honoured at public lecture at University of Leicester

Posted on 12/06/09
University of Leicester

A prize-winning researcher is to be honoured when she delivers her inaugural doctoral lecture at the University of Leicester.

Dr Zoi Pipirou was recently presented with the Royal Society of Chemistrys 2008 Laurie Vergnano Award, in recognition of her research.

Now the talented researcher is to be presented with School of Science Medal for best PhD after she delivers her lecture on Wednesday 17 June.

Dr Pipirou said: Research at the chemistry-biology interface has been a major strength at the University of Leicester for many years. Scientists at the Henry Wellcome Building for Biomedical Research have been bringing together equipment, staff and ideas in an attempt to establish a multidisciplinary approach to better study the structure, kinetics and function of biological systems.

My lecture will present the key findings of Ph.D. research into the function and mechanism of formation of covalent links inside heme proteins. Carried out in Professor Emma Ravens lab, the research involved using techniques at the interface between the traditional chemistry and biology disciplines to engineer covalent links, physiologically seen in mammalian proteins, into members of their plant counterparts.

Dr Pipirous doctoral research has given valuable insight into the similarities and differences between plant and mammalian heme proteins and has shown that plant proteins can be used as model systems to study the characteristics and function of complex mammalian systems.

Dr Pipirou commented: Heme, is an iron-containing molecule that is an integral component of many proteins, so-called hemoproteins, in bacteria, plants and animals. It is the component of hemoglobin that gives blood its red colour. Heme proteins display a wide range of biological functions; for example, hemoglobin and myoglobin are able to maintain a balanced supply of oxygen by functioning as oxygen transport and binding proteins.

In my lecture, I will discuss what Nature has to gain by supporting formation of heme-protein links or even by switching them off.

Dr Pipirous research will be presented at the Doctoral Inaugural Lectures being held in the Ken Edwards Lecture Theatre 3, University of Leicester. Lecture time: 5.30pm-6.30pm on Wednesday June 17.

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