Science Articles and Documents

Welcome!

My updated 2010 PhD Thesis is available for viewing and can be found embedded at the bottom of this page.

The thesis can be viewed directly via Google's PDF document viewer or you can use the pop-out window to view and download it.

For publications etc, I've provided some links to the articles in their respective journals. Direct links to the PDFs are provided where available, others may require access rights / logins.

Research Interests Include:

Novel antimicrobial therapies (incl. potential phage derived treatments, PDT, enzybiotics, modified antibiotics and conjugates).

Antimicrobial resistance mechanisms, their evolution and dissemination and potential methods of overcoming the "resistance problem".

Photodynamic therapy, porphyrins, cytochromes.

Reporter systems for measuring antimicrobial efficacy.

Nanotechnology.

Evolutionary genetics, human developmental genetics, hereditary diseases.

Publications and Patents:

Crystal structure of the antimicrobial peptidase lysostaphin from Staphylococcus simulans

FEBS Sep 2014 281

direct link to PDF

The Biocompatibility of Apoferritin-Encapsulated PbS Quantum Dots

Small 3;5 (15) (Aug 2009) 1738-1741

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Co-inventor of patent EP1492798

direct link to European Patent Office

Expression of lux Genes in a Clinical Isolate of Streptococcus pneumoniae: Using Bioluminescence To Monitor Gemifloxacin Activity

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 46 (Feb 2002) 538-542

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Use of green fluorescent protein in visualisation of pneumococcal invasion of broncho-epithelial cells in vivo

FEMS Microbiology Letters 194 (Jan 2001) 105-110

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