We are delighted to announce that Dr Weston Struwe has recently joined the Kavli INsD Team as a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Dr Struwe is one of eight Oxford University researchers to receive the award and the first in the Department of Chemistry.
The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) scheme helps universities and businesses in the UK recruit, develop and retain the world’s best researchers and innovators. The scheme also aims to develop the next wave of world-class research and innovation leaders in academia and business.
Dr Struwe’s team at the Kavli INsD will explore how complex oligosaccharides, or glycans, shape the structural dynamics of viral glycoproteins and modulate macromolecular interactions within the host. To achieve this, his team will develop and combine new methods in glycoprotein engineering and chemical crosslinking, as well as advanced methods in mass spectrometry and mass photometry, to uncover how specific glycans shape biological processes involved in host-pathogen interactions.
