The supervisors and research projects that are on offer for students interested in the field of Biological Physics are listed below.
Dr. Chris Barnes
- Understanding and engineering bistability in bacterial two component systems using a combined experimental and Bayesian approach
- An agent based reaction-diffusion model of communicating bacterial communities
Dr. James Briscoe
- Development-on-chips: designing and employing novel microfluidic systems to investigate embryonic development of the vertebrate nervous system
Prof. Andrew Copp
- Biomechanics of neural tube formation
Dr. Nathan Goehring
- Advective transport of membrane-associated proteins
- An energetics perspective on cell polarity and spatial memory in C. elegans
- Feedback and threshold behaviours in the PAR polarity network
Prof. Bart Hoogenboom
- Interplay between protein binding and DNA topology
- Self-assembly mechanisms of pore formation in immune defence
Dr. Emad Moeendarbary
- True traction forces of cellular origins
- The role of flow-induced shear stress on tumour cell extravasation
Dr. Isabel Llorente- Garcia
- Manipulation of diamagnetic micro-particles in solution for novel magnetic force/torque sensing in biological systems
- Fluorescence-force microscopy to measure the physical properties of HIV receptors in the context of virus entry
Prof. Thanh Nguyen
- Functionalisation of nanoparticles for biomedical application
Prof. Franck Pichaud
- Toward an integrated view of the biochemical and mechanical regulations controlling cell shape during development: the fly retina as a case study
- Force integration and transmission during organogenesis: integrated properties of the acto-myosinII meshwork during multicellular patterning
Dr. Andela Saric
- Membrane-catalysed formation of amyloid-beta plaques
- Evolution of membrane-remodelling filaments
- Self-assembly of collagen architectures
Find out about research projects which have taken place in the IPLS community here.