On 18 December, Philip Ferguson, who was co-supervised by James Mason (KCL, Institute of Pharmaceutical Science), was examined by Jason Crain (IBM Research, UK) and Jake Bundy (Imperial College London) during his PhD viva. Phil’s viva lasted most of the afternoon, and in the end the examiners were left impressed by …
On 29 November, Mateusz Bieniek conducted his PhD viva, which was examined by Dr. Paul Mulheran (University of Strathclyde) and Dr. Giorgia Brancolini (CNR NANO, Modena, Italy). First, Mat gave an exit seminar to an audience including members of the Lorenz Lab, the two examiners and Dr. Willie Taylor, Mat’s superviser …
Congratulations to Demi Pink for being awarded the inaugural Jacky Pallas Memorial Award. This award is memory of Jacky Pallas, who passed away suddenly and unexpectedly earlier this year. Jacky was someone that I had the pleasure to interact with on several occasions in her role as head of e-Research …
Our recent manuscript — “Minor chemistry changes alter surface hydration to control fibronectin adsorption and assembly into nanofibrils” — reports the results of a multi-disciplinary investigation of mechanisms that govern material-driven fibrillogenesis. Previously, our collaborators in Prof. Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez‘s group at the University of Glasgow showed that fibronectin formed fibril …
During the summer of 2019, prior to my final year of Mathematics (BSc), I was fortunate enough to be awarded an undergraduate fellowship at Kings College London, in the Department of Physics to work on molecular dynamics simulation. Firstly, I would like to express gratitude to my supervisors, Dr Chris …
In our recent manuscript entitled “On the structure of solid lipid nanoparticles“, we have combined large-scale all-atom molecular dynamics simulations and small angle neutron scattering (SANS) experiments to provide the first detailed description of the internal structure and atomistic interactions which govern this structure of liquid and solid lipid aggregates, …
(From 5 August until 16 August, we had the pleasure to have two young women, Sarah and Mariam, who are entering year 13, join our group for a summer placement sponsored by In2Science UK. During their placement, Sarah and Mariam worked with Demi Pink on an aspect of her PhD …
Our latest manuscript entitled “Molecular insights into the behaviour of bile salts at interfaces: a key to their role in lipid digestion” features work that we have done in collaboration with the groups of Cécile Dreiss (Institute of Pharmaceutical Science, KCL), Richard Harvey (Institut für Pharmazie, Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg), …
Raquel Lopez-Rios De Castro, who has just completed her BSc in Physics at King’s College London, has been awarded one of the eleven summer bursaries that have been awarded for the Summer of 2019 by the EPSRC/BBSRC funded Physics of Life network 2 (details of call here). Raquel will be …
Leyang Ji, who has just finished the 2nd year of her BSc in Mathematics at King’s College London, has been awarded a King’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship (KURF) to work with our group over the summer of 2019. During her summer project she will be working with Rob Ziolek in order to …