Molecular Genetics group at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK
Scientist in charge: Prof. Johnjoe McFadden

http://www.surrey.ac.uk/SBMS/ACADEMICS_homepage/mcfadden_johnjoe/

Expertise and experience

The BioNanotechnology Laboratory at Surrey is a joint venture between two RAE2001 5*-rated research departments: the School of Electronics and Physical Sciences (SEPS) and School of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences (SBMS). The laboratory has wide experiences in the characterisation of biomolecules, measuring surface and spectral properties of bionanomaterials. SEPS has a unique range of analytical equipment and world-renown expertise in the field of nanotechnology and its applications. Professor Silva’s group in the Advanced Technology Centre (ATI) has pioneered research into low temperature grown CNT, right down to room temperature which allows us to functionalise CNT with biological materials more easily. SBMS was formed by integrating the Department of Chemistry into the former School of Biomedical and Life Sciences. State-of-the art research facilities include a specialist Microarray Laboratory, a Proteomics Laboratory and a newly-refurbished Bionanotechnology Laboratory equipped with advanced analytical instruments.
The group has strong links with industry and other academic institutes on an international scale with the research being largely experimental in practice and backed by a strong fundamental science base. The group has collaborative projects with Universities of Cambridge and Sussex as part of the EPSRC funded Carbon Based Electronics Project as well as Trinity College Dublin and other overseas universities. SBMS and SEPS have strong industrial involvements with bioscience and electronics companies (Philips, British Aerospace, Matsushita, GPS, MultiArc, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Jannsen, Lundbeck, ReNeuron and Merck, Sharpe & Dohme and Sanofi-Pasteur).

Key equipment

Nanofabrication facilities, AFM, STM, ion beam centre for ion implantation and ion beam analysis, device and circuit fabrication in clean rooms and advanced facilities for optical and electrical characterisation including an ultrafast laser laboratory, several mass spectrometers, NMR and advanced separation technology, a Bioinformatics Suite, imaging facilities including a confocal laser microscope suite and fluorescence microscopes for image analysis and fluorescence dynamics, a cell sorter and flow cytometers, Dual Polarisation Interferometry for measurement of surface absorption, CD spectrophotometer, UV-Vis-NIR-Vis spectrophotometer, Raman spectroscopy and preparative HPLC.

Key scientific staff

Prof. J. McFadden / Molecular Microbiology
Prof. S.R.P. Silva / Functionalized CNT
Dr. H. Coley / Oncology