Joana Silva and Carlos Redondo, post-doctoral researchers from the MOBILIsE ERA Chair Research team, and Yi Li, a PhD student working with Dr Amin Sadeghpour from the School of Food Science and Nutrition at University of Leeds (UK), held a research visit to the Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron science facility, located at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire. The visit took place from the 15th to the 19th of February 2024 and resulted from a successful application to the annual call for B23 beamtime in 2023.
Specifically, the researchers used the Synchrotron Radiation Circular Dichroism B23 beamline, managed by Prof Giuliano Siligardi (Principal Beamline Scientist of B23 beamline) to investigate the structure of supramolecular peptide-hyaluronan hydrogels via high-throughput analyses. The results will contribute to elucidate the structure of these gels, as well as the mechanism of their assembly, and their structural features will be correlated with cell behaviour to establish structure-function relationships. The team plans to use these supramolecular hydrogels for stem cell culture envisioning their application in regenerative medicine.
