PARTNER UNIVERSITY
Queen’s University Belfast
Research Areas & Focuses
- Biofilm Control
- Mechanisms of Biofilm Formation
- Medicinal Chemistry – Novel Protease targets in biofilm formation (discovery/inhibition)
- Non thermal plasmas for biofilm control in health and agriculture
- Medical Device Associated Biofilms (urinary tract, VAP)
- Antimicrobial Drug Discovery from Extreme Halophiles
- Biofilm Bioinformatics – Metagenomic discovery of antimicrobial/antibiofilm agents
- Respiartory biofilms (CF) (Including in vivo models)
- Archaeal biofilm formation, quorum sensing and QSI
- Biofilm models (in vitro, ex vivo, insect models and in vivo)
- Biotransformations – Biofilms and Biocatalysis (Pharma), Anaerobic Digestion
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST
For enquiries, please contact Brendan Gilmore.
Facilities
- Centre for Plasmas in Agriulture (AgriPlas) (Innovate UK) – plasma jet sources (kINPen), dielectric barrier discharge, plasma-liquid systems, plasma diagnostic suite
- Advanced Genomics and Informatics CTU
- Bioimaging (ESEM, TEM,SEM, EVOS, Leica TIRF, SP8-Multi-Photon)
- Thermal Analysis Suite (DSC, TGA, ITC)
- Advanced Mass Spectroscopy (TQMS, TQ-S, QToF, QDa(SQ), GC-MS, ambient MS (ASAP, REIMS, DART)