PARTNER UNIVERSITY

University of St Andrews

Research Areas & Focuses

  1. Biofilm disruption and detection
  2. Discovery of novel anti-biofilm compounds
  3. Natural biofilm development
  4. Role of biofilm in disease
  5. Biofilm imaging
  6. Biofilm mechanics
  7. Biofilm response to mechanical stress
  8. Development of biofilms in catalysis
  9. Population Genomics

Department Link

Biomedical Sciences Research Complex and School of Biology

UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS

For enquiries, please contact David Paterson.
Email David

Facilities

  • Structural biology and crystallography facility
  • Soft matter and photonics lab
  • Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility
  • Biophysics suite to investigate molecular interactions by a variety of techniques
  • Next Generation Sequencing and bioinformatics facility
  • Electron microscopes (high resolution TEM and SEM)

Researchers

Clarissa Czekster, School of Biology
Kishan Dholakia, School of Physics and Astronomy
Malte Gather, School of Physics and Astronomy
Stephen Gillespie, School of Medicine
Rebecca Goss, School of Chemistry
Matthew Holden, School of Medicine
David Paterson, School of Biology