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Dr Quentin Kaas

Peptide and Protein Design and Data Lead

Syngenta

Quentin is an expert in molecular modelling and structural bioinformatics of disulfide-rich peptides, which he uses to design ultra-stable molecules for biotechnological applications. He has a particular interest on conotoxins (30 publications), which are neuroactive peptides expressed by marine carnivorous cone snails and have applications as probes in neuroscience and as drug leads. He has created the ConoServer, a specialised and highly accessed database on conotoxins, which also provides specialised bioinformatics tools to help in their discovery from transcriptomics and proteomics data. Quentin is now a Peptide and Protein Design and Data Lead at Syngenta.