Jenny Collins

Jennifer Collins is originally from a small village in the Somerset countryside. She has been studying at the University of Warwick since 2008.

In 2012 she completed her 4 year undergraduate studies for a Masters in Chemistry at the University of Warwick graduating with 1^st Class Honours. Her masters project was carried out under the supervision of Professor David Haddleton and was entitled 'Synthesis of Short Block Glycopolymers by Single Electron Transfer (SET) Living Radical Polymerisation'. This involved synthesis and characterization of different sugar containing glycomonomers and subsequent polymer synthesis by copper mediated polymerization.

Jenny started her PhD in 2012 under the supervision of Professor David Haddleton.  She is funded by an EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council) doctoral training award. Jenny is working on a collaborative project with Monsah Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS) in Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. As part of this collaboration in early 2015 Jenny spent 10 weeks in Australia carrying out tissue contractility studies of therapeutic hormone-polymer conjugates.

Jennifer's current research priorities are:

• Using living radical polymerization techniques for the synthesis of end functional polymers.
• Modification and end functionalisation of linear PEG for PEGylation.
• Peptide-polymer conjugation strategies in a site selective manner.
• PEGylation of therapeutics for reducing degradation.
• Glycopolymer synthesis and peptide conjugation.
• HPLC as an analysis method for monitoring peptide  conjugation degradation.
•  Investigating biological properties of peptide-polymer conjugates.

Conferences / Presentations Attended:

5th - 6th April 2016: MacroGroup UK Young Researchers Meeting YRM, Liverpool University (Presentation)

19^th November 2015: RSC Roadshow, University of Warwick (Presentation)

6^th - 7^th August 2015: British Society for Nanomedicine 1st Young Researchers Meeting (Poster)

13^th November 2014: RSC Roadshow, University of Warwick (Presentation)

10^th - 14^th August 2014: 248^th ACS National Meeting, San Fransico, CA (Poster)

28^th May 2014: Postgraduate Symposium, University of Warwick (Poster *1st place poster prize)

22^nd May 2014: Polymer Club - Chemistry Insite Day: Health Care to Solar Cells (Poster)

24^th- 25^th July 2014: MacroGroup UK Young Researchers Meeting YRM, Durham University (Poster)

18^th- 22^nd August: IUPAC 10th International Conference on Advanced Polymers via Macromolecular Engineering (APME), Durham University (​Poster​)

8^th- 11^th July 2013: 11th International Conference on Materials Chemistry (MC11), University of Warwick (Poster)

24^th- 25^th June 2013: MacroGroup UK Young Researchers Meeting YRM, University of Nottingham (Poster)

9^th - 12^th July 2012: Warwick 2012: Macro Group UK International Conference on Polymer Synthesis & UKPCF International Conference on Polymer Colloids, University of Warwick