PARTNER UNIVERSITY
University of Hertfordshire
Research Areas & Focuses
- Biofilm formation by Clostridioides difficile
- Genetics and cell biology research
- Drug delivery to the airways
- Cell models and biotechnology
- Physiochemical analysis of biofilm, microbial and nanoparticle suspensions
- Antimicrobial nanoparticle surface modification and coating for Biomedical and healthcare applications
- Robust antimicrobial material screening
- Bioimaging research for Biofilm, cell and antimicrobial nanomaterials
- Microreactors for synthetic biology
- Portable Integrated Battlespace Biological Detection Technology – (PIBBDT)
University of Hertfordshire
For enquiries, please contact Yuen-Ki Cheong.
Facilities
- State-of-art New Science Building
- UH cell and microbial culture collection
- Microbiology laboratory
- Antimicrobial nanomaterial laboratory
- Microscopy and spectroscopy suite (TEM, SEM, Confocal and Fluorescence microscopes)
- Microfluidics laboratory and Aerosol testing facilities
- 35m2 class 1000 (ISO 6) clean room
- Flow Cytometer – Partec PAS
- MALDI-Tof-MS and qPCR
- 2D protein gel analysis systems
- Nanoparticles tracking analyser with three variable lasers
- Zetasizer (Malvern Panalytical)
- A full list of the MAST facilities is available here
- A full list of the MMRG facilities is available here
Researchers
Simon Baines, School of Life and Medical Sciences, Microbiology and Biotechnology
Yuen-Ki Cheong, Material and structure, BioEngineering
Nikolay Dimov, Microfluidics and Microengineering, Extracellular Vesicle Research Unit
Shan Goh, Bioscience Research Group, Extracellular Vesicle Research Unit
Jameel Inal, Biosciences Research Group
Laxmi Kerai-Varsani, Centre for Research into Topical Drug Delivery and Toxicology
Guogang Ren, Centre of Engineering, BioEngineering
UH Biotechnology and Bio-detection Research laboratory
UH State-of-art the New Science Building
UH Biosciences Research Group Microbiology laboratory
