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Turberfield
Principal Investigator:
 
    
Name: Professor Andrew Turberfield

University of Oxford
Department of Physics
Email:
Website: http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/cm/people/
turberfield.htm

Research Interests: Photonic crystals and self assembly of DNA nanostructures.
                                                               
  
A DNA Tetrahedron

Post Doctoral Research Associates:
 
 
Name: Dr Jonathan Bath

University of Oxford
Oxford Physics
Email:
Website: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~path0066/

Research Interests: Molecular motors built from DNA.

 
 A chiral nanotube built from DNA

 
   
Name: Dr Russel Goodman

University of Oxford
Department of Physics
Email:
Website: None

Research Interests: DNA self-assembly of three-dimensional nanostructures and their applications.

 
A self-assembled DNA tetrahedron

 
    
Name: Dr Simon Green (left 2006)

University of Oxford
Department of Physics
Email:

Website:  None

Research Interests: Interactions of complementary DNA hairpin loops, autonomous DNA-based devices, nicking enzymes.

Duplex formation between two complementary hairpins is catalysed by substochiometric amounts of opening strand

 
 
Name: Dr Jonathan Malo

University of Oxford
Department of Physics
Email:
Website: None

Research Interests: DNA self-assembly / nanotechnology, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), TEM image processing, structural biology.

TEM average of a DNA lattice:  four DNA strands are designed to self-assemble into a 2D lattice, whose interwoven helices are reminiscent of Kagome basketwork

Research Students:
 
 
Name: Helen Carstairs

University of Oxford
Department of Physics
Email:
Website: None

Research Interests: Self assembly of gold nanoparticles and motor proteins using DNA.
  
An agarose gel used in the purification of monofunctionalised quantum dots for the labelling of motor protein teams

 
 
Name: Christoph Erben

University of Oxford
Department of Physics
Email:
Website: None

Research Interests: 3-dimensional DNA nanostructures, in particular DNA Tetrahedra.



   
Structure of a DNA Tetrahedron

 
   
Name: Anthony Genot

University of Oxford
Department of Physics
Email:
Website: None

Research Interests: Design and characterization of DNA linear motors; Characterisation using Fluorescence microscopy, FRET spetrocopy or Gel experiments.



   
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Name: Pradeep Ramachandran (co-supervised by Jasper van Thor)

University of Oxford
Department of Biochemistry
Email:
Website: None

Research Interests: Photoreceptor proteins; bionanotechnology; spectroscopy.
   
Structure of the dark state of Photoactive Yellow Protein (PYP), PDBid: 2PHY

 
     

Name: Daniele Selmi

University of Oxford
Department of Physics
Email:
Website: None

Research Interests: .



   
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