Ana Gomez Betancur

Ana is a PhD student working jointly with Dr. Cafiero, FNS colleagues Stella Lignou, Julia Rodriguez Garcia and Physics Colleague Gareth Tribello. Overall Ana is studying how inclusion of rare sugars affects the characteristics of biscuits. In the Cafiero group, Ana is using DFT methods to study the Maillard reaction pathway for rare sugars, with a goal of being able to predict flavour compounds that result from the baking of biscuits containing rare sugars.

Sophia Davey

Sophia is a work experience student who worked in the Cafiero group in Fall 2024. Sophia developed several types of machine learning models to predict docking scores for molecules in the MAOB active site.

Marie Surbeck

Marie worked in the Cafiero group as part of the DAAD Rise program during the summer of 2024. Charlotte worked on developing a generative-pre-trained model to create virtual screening libraries of molecules to inhibit the MAOB enzyme.

Josh Harle, MSc.

Josh earned his MSc in the Cafiero group in the 2023/2024 academic year, though he and Dr. Cafiero began working together in 2022 when Josh won a Royal Society of Chemistry summer research bursary. Josh's Masters thesis covered basis sets, active site size and amino acid residue capping for protein-ligand analysis, as well as three and four-body interactions in protein-ligand binding.

1. Josh's published work from our group.

Charlotte Schulze

Charlotte worked in the Cafiero group as part of the DAAD Rise program during the summer of 2023. Charlotte worked on three-body interactions in protein-ligand binding, as well as drug molecule strain and desolvation.

1. Charlotte's published work from our group.