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The Smith Group at Bucknell University

The relationship between peptide sequence, structure, and function drives the work in the Smith group. Inspired by metals in biology, the Smith group designs metallopeptides to interact with natural macromolecular binding partners for therapeutic and diagnostic platforms. We also work to understand the role of individual amino acids in driving the antibacterial properties of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs).

Chem. Sci., 2013, 4, 3740.
ACS Omega, 2025