This is the Way
DeShPet lab members Daniela and Goran participated at the 60th Japanese Peptide Symposium held in Otsu (Japan) with two oral presentations on the topic of catalytic peptides and challenges of applying ML to the prediction of active peptides. It was a great experience and opportunity to network with Japanese and international scientists.
DeShPet team members had a lot of fun organizing, presenting their results and networking at the Peptide Chemistry Day held in Zagreb at the beautiful SEECEL building. It was a great day and we hope to have more of this opportunities in the future. It was nice to have our friend and collaborator Antonella Bandiera from the University of Trieste as invited speaker.
Huge congrats to @Jankovic_Pat for defending her PhD topic on the design of short catalytic peptides. Great discussion with the committee members Christian Gruber (Medical University of Vienna) @peptide_drugs, Toni Todorovski (UNIRI) and Ruža Frkanec (PMF Zagreb).
Patrizia, keep being curious, the Deshpet lab is proud of your achievements!
Read our latest paper published in Molecular Systems Design & Engineering (MSDE), studying the factors influencing catalytic activity of metal-dependent histidine-rich peptides, selected as HOT article. Congrats Patrizia and the team for this great article for which Marko Babić designed the inside front cover.
Marko Babić attended AFFINITY2023 – The 25th meeting of the International Society for Molecular Recognition conference, where he presented a flash talk entitled 
“Modeling the aggregation of self-assembling histidine rich peptides in the presence of zinc(II) ions” and had a nice opportunity to network with colleagues and friends. It was a nice opportunity to visit Portugal.
Patrizia participated at the SupraChemDays 2023 held in Cagliari with the presentation “Elucidating the role of amino acid disposition, cyclization and chirality on self-assembly propensity and catalytic activity of histidine-rich peptides” where she presented her latest results on short catalytic peptides. 
Congratulations to our master student Lucija Žužić, awarded by the Rector as student of the generation, at the University of Rijeka 2023.
We are proud of you,
The DeShPet team
Proud to share that Daniela, our team leader, won the Invited Lecturer Presentation Award at the MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco. It has been a great experience and opportunity for sharing our results and interacting with leaders in the field of peptide materials! For someone starting their path as PI this is a great recognition. Thanks to the whole #deshpet team for working hard to make it possible. #MRSspring #SB06 #peptides #ML #team
Our master student Ena together with Matea, Valentina and Alberta that attended out elective course Nanochemistry, participated at the #RSCPoster conference on twitter where they presented their work on the topic on Lactose intolerance and the possibility to design short peptides able to catalyse lactose hydrolysis. The projects were designed and supervised by PhD students Patrizia and Marko, well done!
Lactase – inspired design of short peptides #RSCPoster #RSCChemBio #RSCCat pic.twitter.com/TaifeOH5gQ
— Ena Dražić (@DrazicEna) February 28, 2023
Lactase supplement analysis and future endeavors #RSCPoster #RSCChemBio #RSCCat pic.twitter.com/y4AmXL6Kvp
— Matea Krsanac (@krsanac_matea) February 28, 2023
DeShPet lab members participated at the Austrian Peptide Symposium held in Vienna in December 2022. Congratulations to Patrizia for winning the poster prize and to Marko, Erik and Marko on excellent poster presentations and discussions.
