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School of the Biological Sciences

 

 

Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry

Claudia Bonfio is tackling the research question of how life emerged from non-living matter through the design and development of primitive cells, exploring how prebiotically-relevant chemical networks can influence the assembly, dynamics and replication of membrane-bound compartments. 

 

Research Areas


Prebiotic chemistry
Membrane biophysics
Primitive cells
Artificial cell design
 

Techniques


Spectroscopy
Light microscopy
Chromatography
NMR
 

Areas for Collaboration


Synthetic biology
Soft matter
Biophysics
Evolutionary biology
 

 

Research Theme