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