FoldNET UK Symposium - foldamers - Edinburgh

Venue: Elm lecture theatre – Nucleus Building, King’s Buildings Campus, University of Edinburgh

Registration is FREE (lunch and refreshments are included but only if you register)

We’re excited to announce that our FoldNetUK Symposium will take place on 2 September 2026 at the University of Edinburgh (exact location details listed above). This year’s theme, Innovating Together, will bring people together with interests in foldamers and their applications: from biological molecules, biomimetics, to entirely synthetic systems; under one roof, for a jam packed day of insights, networking, and inspiration. Mark your calendars and register your attendance as soon as possible, as we have a limited number of spaces!

• Subsidised travel and accommodation. Thanks to the EPSRC, travel and accommodation will be subsidised for the first 50 registrants (from outside Edinburgh) based at UK institutions to a fixed value of £120 per person. Please keep your travel and accommodation receipts. This will be based on a first come, first served basis. For further guidance on how bursaries are allocated, please get in touch.
• Posters and an early career researcher panel/event will form part of the programme, so please let your research group know about this event.

Speakers: Samuel H. Gellman (University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA) Peptidic Foldamers and Foldamer-Inspired Peptides Sijbren Otto (University of Groningen, Netherlands) Folding and Replication: Two Sides of the Same Coin

Jake Greenfield (University of St Andrews, UK) Conformational and Constitutional Changes, Driven by Light

Aisha Bismillah (King’s College London, UK) Exploiting Bistable Architectures to Create Dynamic Networks

Steven Cobb (Durham University, UK) Controlling Peptoid Structure Using Fluorine

Chris Coxon (University of Edinburgh, UK) Fluorinated Tools to Study Protein and Peptide Folding and Aggregation

Marcey L. Waters (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) Mimicking Protein Frustration to Create a Responsive Foldamer

Javid Malla (Francis Crick Institute, UK) Aramide Foldamers as Bioinspired Aquaporin Mimics for Selective Water Transport

Andrew Jamieson (University of Glasgow, UK) Bridging Structure and Function: Next Generation Macrocyclic Peptidomimetics

Andre Cobb (King’s College London, UK) Synthesis of Peptidic Foldamers and Their Application to Catalysis

Event details:

https://www.foldnet.uk/news-and-events/event/save-the-date-foldnetuk-symposium-2-september-2026/

Registration link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/foldnetuk-symposium-tickets-1986990906289