Our DNA research is featured in Forbes Magazine
Untangling DNA - one molecule at a time at BIRS: The Topology of Nucleic Acids
Alice is visiting the Banff International Research Station (BIRS) in Banff, Alberta to present our work on DNA topology at The Topology of Nucleic Acids: Research at the Interface of Low-Dimensional Topology, Polymer Physics and Molecular Biology.
If you’d like to see the talk, you can watch it here.
ACS Synthetic Biology Cover highlight
The cover of the newly released (March 2018) ACS Synthetic Biology highlights our exciting collaborative research with UCL Chemistry and The National Physical Laboratory
New paper published in EMBO: Deciphering the mechanism of action of the membrane attack complex (MAC)
'Targeting Twist' at the Physics of Life PolNET2 2018 Symposium
On the 10th December 2018, Kavit attended the ‘Physics of Life PoLNET2 2018 Symposium: Molecules, Mechanics, Medicine and More!’ at the University of York. The interdisciplinary symposium aimed to showcase collaborative projects across Biology and Physics with discussions ranging from evolution to epigenetics.
Paper published: creating new antibiotics from our own immune system
New antibiotics are desperately needed: without them antimicrobial resistance is predicted to kill more people than cancer. An international collaboration between scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN), University of Oxford, IBM, STFC Daresbury Laboratory and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has shown that our own bodies may provide an answer.
New paper published: Creating new antibiotics from our own immune system
New antibiotics are desperately needed: without them antimicrobial resistance is predicted to kill more people than cancer. An international collaboration between scientists at the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN), University of Oxford, IBM, STFC Daresbury Laboratory and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has shown that our own bodies may provide an answer.
Kavit Main has joined the group to carry out his MSc research project
Kavit Main has joined the group to carry out a research project for his MSc in Cancer at the UCL Cancer Institute. His project aims to use Atomic Force Microscopy to gain single-molecule insights into supercoiled DNA-topoisomerase interactions.
Aside from academia, Kavit practises Nasta’liq and Devanagari calligraphy, Mughal miniature painting and enjoys Urdu poetry and hiking.
Mimicking viruses from inside out using DNA origami
The cover of the current issue of ACS Synthetic Biology highlights the our collaborative research project with UCL Chemistry and the National Physical Laboratory to engineer a programmable inside-out “virus”. This everted “virus” is designed to deliver functional proteins into live cells.
New paper published in ACS Synthetic Biology (February 2018)
DNA Origami Inside-Out Virus
Alice has been awarded a prestigious MRC/UKRI Innovation Fellowship (Jan 2018)
This exciting new fellowship aims to create the future for international leaders in research.
Alice is featured in UCL's recent spotlight (Dec 2017)
Isabel was on Sky News discussing the importance of new antibiotics (October 2017)
Alice featured in a high-profile webinar (Nov 2016)
Alice has featured in a high-profile webinar celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Nobel Prize in Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (STM) and the 30th anniversary since the first paper in Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)
New paper published in Chemical Communications (Sept 2016)
Studies of G- Quadruplexes formed within self assembled DNA mini-circles.