Biophysical Chemistry
Biophysical chemistry group
| Biological systems are complex assemblies of molecules. Our research is motivated by the conviction that we will only really understand how biological systems work when we know the structures of the molecules and how those change as a function of time. The focus of our work is on developing techniques to enable us to determine structural and kinetic molecular parameters of inhomogeneous dynamic populations of biomacromolecules. We are particularly interested in understanding how bacterial cell division works and how potential drugs interact with biomolecular assemblies such as membranes, cytoskeletal protein fibres, and nucleic acid structures. Our particular expertise is in spectroscopy. We use circular dichroism spectroscopy, absorbance and fluorescence spectroscopies. A lot of our effort goes into developing and applying new linear dichroism techniques and we are currently working on development of Raman & SERS for biological and analytical applications. |
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We are always open to new ideas and collaborations to develop the techniques and instruments we work with. Contact us via:Nikola Paul Chmel: n dot chmel at warwick dot ac dot uk, +44 (0)24 76523234 |
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PhD funding is available for UK students on the AS CDT programme.
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