Dr Annela Seddon

Summary

My areas of expertise include the fabrication of materials on the nanoscale, in particular, materials influenced by biology and nature.

I am interested in the interplay between the scientific disciplines and work incorporating techniques and ideas from physics and chemistry to understand biological problems.

In particular, I use techniques such as x-ray scattering to look at small scale structures and am developing new techniques for fluid handling which can again be applied to biological systems.

Keywords

• nanoscience
• nanotechnology
• biophysics
• interdisciplinary research

Memberships

Organisations

School of Physics

Physics staff

• Physics academic staff

Research groups

• Nanophysics and Soft Matter

Recent publications

• Furse, S, Brooks, NJ, Seddon, AM, Woscholski, R, Templer, RH, Tate, EW, Gaffney, PRJ & Ces, O 2012, ‘Lipid membrane curvature induced by distearoyl phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate’. Soft Matter, vol 8., pp. 3090-3093
• Seddon, A, Lotze, G, Plivelic, T & Squires, A 2011, ‘A Highly Oriented Cubic Phase Formed by Lipids under Shear’. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol 133., pp. 13860 - 13863
• Kulkarni, C, Tang, T, Seddon, A, Seddon, J, Ces, O & Templer, R 2010, ‘Engineering bicontinuous cubic structures at the nanoscale-the role of chain splay’. Soft Matter, vol 6., pp. 3191 - 3194
• Kulkarni, C, Seddon, A, Ces, O & Templer, R 2010, ‘Evidence that membrane curvature distorts the tertiary structure of bacteriorhodopsin’. Soft Matter, vol 6., pp. 4339 - 4341
• Peiro-Salvador, T, Ces, O, Templer, R & Seddon, A 2009, ‘Buffers May Adversely Affect Model Lipid Membranes: A Cautionary Tale’. Biochemistry, vol 48., pp. 11149 - 11151
• Seddon, A, Casey, D, Law, R, Gee, A, Templer, R & Ces, O 2009, ‘Drug interactions with lipid membranes’. Chemical Society Reviews, vol 38., pp. 2509 - 2519
• Liang, L, Sigrid, N, Seddon, A, Valentina, T, Nina, P & Rustem, I 2008, ‘Simple Host-Guest Chemistry To Modulate the Process of Concentration and Crystallization of Membrane Proteins by Detergent Capture in a Microfluidic Device’. Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol 130., pp. 14324 - 14328
• Seddon, A, Lorch, M, Ces, O, Templer, R, Macrae, F & Booth, P 2008, ‘Phosphatidylglycerol lipids enhance folding of an α helical membrane protein’. Journal of Molecular Biology, vol 380 (3)., pp. 548 - 556
• Bromley, K, Patil, A, Seddon, A, Booth, P & Mann, S 2007, ‘Bio-functional mesolamellar nanocomposites based on inorganic/polymer intercalation in purple membrane (bacteriorhodopsin) films’. Advanced Materials, vol 19 (18)., pp. 2433 - 2438
• Seddon, A, Curnow, P & Booth, P 2004, ‘Membrane proteins, lipids and detergents: not just a soap opera’. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, vol 1666., pp. 105 - 117

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