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Alexandros Gkounta

Alexandros Gkounta

PhD Student

Research interests

  • Chemistry

Biography

Alex is currently undertaking his PhD under the supervision of Dr Antoni Borysik in the Department of Chemistry at King’s College London. Prior to this, he graduated with a first-class BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Kent in 2021. He then completed his MSc at the University of Nottingham, where he worked on the ABG2 transporter, contributing to the development of a transport assay using FRET.

Research Interests

  • Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Protein Folding
  • Membrane Proteins

Thesis Title 

Investigating the Impact of Liposomes on the Structural Stability of Membrane-Active Peptides via Hydrogen/Deuterium Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Dynamics Simulations.

Supervisors

Primary Supervisor: Dr Antoni Borysik

Secondary: Professor Martin Ulmschneider