Gibson Group News

Sarah-Jane is joining us for 2 Months as part of her MOAC DTC course. She will be investigated the interactions between bacterial toxins and biomimetic surfaces.

Collaborative work with the Indian Institute of Technology (Karaghpur) and EPFL, Switzerland on a new, sequential post-polymerization modificaiton method to generate polymer-peptide hybrid materials is accepted for publication.

Yussif Saaka and Ajit Raghuwanshi join us for the next 5 months as part of their AS:MIG (analytical science) master's degree. They will be working on (i) new, ultra-sensitive methods for quantitive evaluation of protein-ligand interactions to measure the efficacy of anti-infectives; (ii) interaction of stimuli responsive polymers with biological membranes to develop more effective and safer drug delivery systems.

A recent collaborative project grant between Gibson and Notman is highlighted on the Leverhulme Trust's webpage.

Dan Phillips, who has been working with us for the past 7 months as part of his MChem will be joining us as a Ph.D student later this year.

Mat Jones joins us as a PDRA, working on a collaborative project with Coventry NHS trust. He previously completed his Ph.D at Warwick with Dave Haddleton

We have 2 vacancies for talented students who with to pursue at Ph.D at the frontiers of polymer/protein chemistry and the life sciences.

In particular, this project will investigate the function of novel antifreeze-protein mimetic materials which may find use as novel cryoprotectants for e.g. organ storage.

Advert can be found here:

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACM209/phd-studentship/

Congratulations to Caroline Moore, who has received a Life Science Interface scholarship to join us as Ph.D student from October. These are highly competitive and only awarded to excellent students.