Research impact and publications

Members of the Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering publish in high impact peer-reviewed journals collaborating widely with a range of international researchers across disciplines and participate enthusiastically in public engagement activities.

Further details of our publications from 2008 to date are available on the IB3 website.

Selected Publications

2011

Barbour, R. J., Dalgarno, P. a., Curran, A., Nowak, K. M., Baker, H. J., Hall, D. R., Stoltz, N. G., Petroff, P. M., and Warburton, R. J. (2011). A tunable microcavity. Journal of Applied Physics 110, 053107. Available at: Link

Brown, E. R., and Piscopo, S. (2011). Ion channels in key marine invertebrates; their diversity and potential for applications in biotechnology. Biotechnology advances 29, 457–467. Available at: Link

Choudhury, D., Ramsay, W. T., Brown, G., Psaila, N. D., Beecher, S., Thomson, R. R., Kiss, R., Pells, S., Willoughby, N. a., Paterson, L., et al. (2011). A femtosecond laser inscribed biochip for stem cell therapeutic applications. SPIE Proceedings 7929, 79290P-79290P-6. Available at: Link

Dalgarno, H. I. C., Dalgarno, P. a, Dada, A. C., Towers, C. E., Gibson, G. J., Parton, R. M., Davis, I., Warburton, R. J., and Greenaway, A. H. (2011). Nanometric depth resolution from multi-focal images in microscopy. Journal of the Royal Society, Interface / the Royal Society 8, 942–951. Available at: Link

Ferenc, G., Pádár, P., Szolomájer, J., Howarth, N. M., and Kovács, L. (2011). Transition metal ion complexes of N-alkylguanines. Current Organic Chemistry 15, 2871–2892.

Gerardot, B. D., Barbour, R. J., Brunner, D., Dalgarno, P. a., Badolato, a., Stoltz, N., Petroff, P. M., Houel, J., and Warburton, R. J. (2011). Laser spectroscopy of individual quantum dots charged with a single hole. Applied Physics Letters 99, 243112. Available at: Link

Howarth, N. M., and Ricci (née Goujon), J. (2011). Synthesis of N-propynyl analogues of peptide nucleic acid (PNA) monomers and their use in the click reaction to prepare N-functionalized PNAs. Tetrahedron 67, 9588–9594. Available at: Link

Kiss, R., Bock, H., Pells, S., Canetta, E., Adya, A. K., Moore, A. J., De Sousa, P., and Willoughby, N. a (2011). Elasticity of human embryonic stem cells as determined by atomic force microscopy. Journal of biomechanical engineering 133, 101009. Available at: Link

Kloeffel, C., Dalgarno, P., Urbaszek, B., Gerardot, B., Brunner, D., Petroff, P., Loss, D., and Warburton, R. (2011). Controlling the Interaction of Electron and Nuclear Spins in a Tunnel-Coupled Quantum Dot. Physical Review Letters 106, 1–4. Available at: Link

Liu, D., and Shu, W. (2011). Microcantilever Biosensors: Probing Biomolecular Interactions at the Nanoscale. Current Organic Chemistry 15, 477–485. Available at: Link

Ramsay, W. T., Bechu, M., Bolanos Quinones, V. a., Mei, Y., Schmidt, O. G., and Paterson, L. (2011). Triple beam optical trap for microsyringe construction. SPIE Proceedings 8097, 809708–809708-9. Available at: Link

Simon, C.-M., Belhadj, T., Chatel, B., Amand, T., Renucci, P., Lemaitre, a., Krebs, O., Dalgarno, P., Warburton, R., Marie, X., et al. (2011). Robust Quantum Dot Exciton Generation via Adiabatic Passage with Frequency-Swept Optical Pulses. Physical Review Letters 106, 1–4. Available at: Link

2010

Dalgarno, P. a, Dalgarno, H. I. C., Putoud, A., Lambert, R., Paterson, L., Logan, D. C., Towers, D. P., Warburton, R. J., and Greenaway, A. H. (2010). Multiplane imaging and three dimensional nanoscale particle tracking in biological microscopy. Optics express 18, 877–884. Available at: Link

Dun, A. R., Rickman, C., and Duncan, R. R. (2010). The t-SNARE complex: a close up. Cellular and molecular neurobiology 30, 1321–1326. Available at: Link

Fu, Y. Q., Luo, J. K., Du, X. Y., Flewitt, a. J., Li, Y., Markx, G. H., Walton, a. J., and Milne, W. I. (2010). Recent developments on ZnO films for acoustic wave based bio-sensing and microfluidic applications: a review. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 143, 606–619. Available at: Link

Mattiello, T., Fiore, G., Brown, E. R., d’ Ischia, M., and Palumbo, A. (2010). Nitric oxide mediates the glutamate-dependent pathway for neurotransmission in Sepia officinalis chromatophore organs. The Journal of biological chemistry 285, 24154–24163. Available at: Link

Nishino, A., Okamura, Y., Piscopo, S., and Brown, E. R. (2010). A glycine receptor is involved in the organization of swimming movements in an invertebrate chordate. BMC neuroscience 11, 6. Available at: Link

Rickman, C., Medine, C. N., Dun, A. R., Moulton, D. J., Mandula, O., Halemani, N. D., Rizzoli, S. O., Chamberlain, L. H., and Duncan, R. R. (2010). t-SNARE protein conformations patterned by the lipid micro-environment. J Biol Chem 285, 13535–13541. Available at: Link

Rickman, C., and Duncan, R. R. (2010). Munc18/Syntaxin interaction kinetics control secretory vesicle dynamics. J Biol Chem 285, 3965–3972. Available at: Link

Smyth, A. M., Duncan, R. R., and Rickman, C. (2010a). Munc18-1 and syntaxin1: unraveling the interactions between the dynamic duo. Cellular and molecular neurobiology 30, 1309–1313. Available at: Link

Smyth, A. M., Rickman, C., and Duncan, R. R. (2010b). Vesicle fusion probability is determined by the specific interactions of munc18. The Journal of biological chemistry 285, 38141–38148. Available at: Link

Yang, L., Parton, R., Ball, G., Qiu, Z., Greenaway, A. H., Davis, I., and Lu, W. (2010). An adaptive non-local means filter for denoising live-cell images and improving particle detection. Journal of structural biology 172, 233–243. Available at: Link

2008-2009

Brunner, D., Gerardot, B. D., Dalgarno, P. a, Wüst, G., Karrai, K., Stoltz, N. G., Petroff, P. M., and Warburton, R. J. (2009). A coherent single-hole spin in a semiconductor. Science (New York, N.Y.) 325, 70–72. Available at: Link

Dalgarno, P. a., McFarlane, J., Brunner, D., Lambert, R. W., Gerardot, B. D., Warburton, R. J., Karrai, K., Badolato, a., and Petroff, P. M. (2008a). Hole recapture limited single photon generation from a single n-type charge-tunable quantum dot. Applied Physics Letters 92, 193103. Available at: Link

Dalgarno, P., Ediger, M., Gerardot, B., Smith, J., Seidl, S., Kroner, M., Karrai, K., Petroff, P., Govorov, a., and Warburton, R. (2008b). Optically Induced Hybridization of a Quantum Dot State with a Filled Continuum. Physical Review Letters 100, 1–4. Available at: Link

Dalgarno, P., Smith, J., McFarlane, J., Gerardot, B., Karrai, K., Badolato, A., Petroff, P., and Warburton, R. (2008c). Coulomb interactions in single charged self-assembled quantum dots: Radiative lifetime and recombination energy. Physical Review B 77, 1–8. Available at: Link

Gerardot, B. D., Brunner, D., Dalgarno, P. a, Karrai, K., Badolato, a, Petroff, P. M., and Warburton, R. J. (2009). Dressed excitonic states and quantum interference in a three-level quantum dot ladder system. New Journal of Physics 11, 013028. Available at: Link

Gerardot, B. D., Brunner, D., Dalgarno, P. a, Ohberg, P., Seidl, S., Kroner, M., Karrai, K., Stoltz, N. G., Petroff, P. M., and Warburton, R. J. (2008). Optical pumping of a single hole spin in a quantum dot. Nature 451, 441–444. Available at: Link

Knowles, T. P. J., Shu, W., Huber, F., Lang, H. P., Gerber, C., Dobson, C. M., and Welland, M. E. (2008). Label-free detection of amyloid growth with microcantilever sensors. Nanotechnology 19, 384007. Available at: Link

Martel, M. A., Soriano, F. X., Baxter, P., Rickman, C., Duncan, R., Wyllie, D. J., and Hardingham, G. E. (2009). Inhibiting pro-death NMDA receptor signaling dependent on the NR2 PDZ ligand may not affect synaptic function or synaptic NMDA receptor signaling to gene expression. Channels (Austin) 3, 12–15. Available at: Link

McFarlane, J., Dalgarno, P. a., Gerardot, B. D., Hadfield, R. H., Warburton, R. J., Karrai, K., Badolato, a., and Petroff, P. M. (2009). Gigahertz bandwidth electrical control over a dark exciton-based memory bit in a single quantum dot. Applied Physics Letters 94, 093113. Available at: Link

Serrels, K. a., Ramsay, E., Dalgarno, P. a., Gerardot, B., O’Connor, J., Hadfield, R. H., Warburton, R., and Reid, D. (2008). Solid immersion lens applications for nanophotonic devices. Journal of Nanophotonics 2, 021854. Available at: Link

Sher, P. H., Smith, J. M., Dalgarno, P. a., Warburton, R. J., Chen, X., Dobson, P. J., Daniels, S. M., Pickett, N. L., and O’Brien, P. (2008). Power law carrier dynamics in semiconductor nanocrystals at nanosecond timescales. Applied Physics Letters 92, 101111. Available at: Link

Shu, W., Laurenson, S., Knowles, T. P. J., Ko Ferrigno, P., and Seshia, A. a (2008). Highly specific label-free protein detection from lysed cells using internally referenced microcantilever sensors. Biosensors & bioelectronics 24, 233–237. Available at: Link

Sordino, P., Andreakis, N., Brown, E. R., Leccia, N. I., Squarzoni, P., Tarallo, R., Alfano, C., Caputi, L., D’Ambrosio, P., Daniele, P., et al. (2008). Natural variation of model mutant phenotypes in Ciona intestinalis. PloS one 3, e2344. Available at: Link

Soriano, F. X., Martel, M. A., Papadia, S., Vaslin, A., Baxter, P., Rickman, C., Forder, J., Tymianski, M., Duncan, R., Aarts, M., et al. (2008). Specific targeting of pro-death NMDA receptor signals with differing reliance on the NR2B PDZ ligand. J Neurosci 28, 10696–10710. Available at: Link

Threlfall, R., Davies, A., Howarth, N. M., Fisher, J., and Cosstick, R. (2008). Peptides derived from nucleoside beta-amino acids form an unusual 8-helix. Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) 44, 585–587. Available at: Link

Uttieri, M., Brown, E. R., Boxshall, G. a., and Mazzocchi, M. G. (2008). Morphology of antennular sensors in Clausocalanus furcatus (Copepoda: Calanoida). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the UK 88, 535–541. Available at: Link

Zhou, F., Biesheuvel, P. M., Choi, E.-Y., Shu, W., Poetes, R., Steiner, U., and Huck, W. T. S. (2008). Polyelectrolyte brush amplified electroactuation of microcantilevers. Nano letters 8, 725–730. Available at: Link

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