| Staff |
Group website |
Project info |
| Prof Geoff Pilkington |
Cellular and Molecular Neuro-Oncology Group |
Live cell imaging of cancer cells to study motility, invasion and effects of chemotherapeutic agents. |
| Prof Darek Gorecki |
Molecular Medicine |
Confocal imaging for investigating pathogenesis of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, role of dystrophin complex in brain, gene therapy using non-viral vectors. |
| Prof Arthur Butt |
Cellular Neurophysiology |
Fluorescence imaging of glial cells; study of myelination. |
| Dr Keith Firman |
Bionanotechnology |
DNA manipulating enzymes that constitute a single molecule nanoactuator, studies of which involve AFM imaging of single molecules (DNA and DNA-binding enzymes) and measurement of forces of interaction within the system. |
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Dr John Tsibouklis
Dr Eugen Barbu
Dr Dimitrios Fatouros
Dr Marta Roldo
Dr James Smith
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Bioadhesion and Drug Delivery Group |
Use of AFM to determine surface energy, an important parameter in the study of bioadhesion. AFM has also been used to image single walled carbon nanotubes for drug delivery in nanomedicine. |
| Dr Jan Shute |
Cystic Fibrosis Asthma |
Various microscopy techniques used to investigate tissue damage and repair and for characterising novel mucolytics. |
| Dr Sassan Hafizi |
Cellular Signalling |
Wound-healing assays using live cell imaging. |
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Dr James Smith
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STM and AFM imaging of proteins: Immobilisation and tunnelling mechanisms in proteins such as reverse transcriptase is a collaborative venture with Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin. |