PhD studentship available from September 2009. Please click here for project description, here for information about Graduate Teaching Studentships and here for one of my research pages giving further background to the project. The studentship is open to suitably qualified Home or Overseas students. Please contact me if you are interested. The closing date for applications is 2 February 2009.
Research group October 2007. From left to right: Anja Nenninger, Giulia Mastroianni, Conrad Mullineaux, Yueng Tchern Lenn, Tomasz Goral
I moved to QMUL in January 2005. Previously I was in the Department of Biology at UCL. My background is in photosynthesis research, and at QMUL we are part of a large grouping with interests in photosynthesis and bioenergetics, including John Allen, Peter Heathcote, Norbert Krauss, Jon Nield and Alexander Ruban. Much of our current research is based around the use of Fluorescence Recovery after Photobleaching (FRAP) to probe the mobility of molecules within cells. FRAP has been widely used as a tool in eukaryotic cell biology. We have adapted the technique for use in smaller cell compartments (prokaryotic cells and chloroplasts). We combine FRAP with other microscopic techniques, plus spectroscopy, molecular biology and biochemistry. See below for details:
