Single molecule structural biology
Biology and disease are heterogenous. It is hard to visualise, quantify, and qualify this heterogeneity at the structural and ultra-structural levels, within single proteins and protein assemblies, and in human and cellular samples. We are a research lab at the University of St Andrews developing new instrumentation, assays, and software to push single molecule and super resolution microscopy towards structural imaging one-molecule-at-a-time. Together with collaborators, we aim to democratise these technologies and use them to study the molecular architecture of cellular complexes, from the Kinetochore to pore-forming proteins, and human diseases, from neurodegenerative to immune disorders in living human samples.
PloS Biology
Selective suppression of oligodendrocyte-derived amyloid beta rescues neuronal dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease
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Nature Communications
Co-aggregation with Apolipoprotein E modulates the function of Amyloid-β in Alzheimer’s disease
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Angewandte Chemie
Single-Molecule Characterization and Super-Resolution Imaging of Alzheimer's Disease-Relevant Tau Aggregates in Human Samples
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Nature Protocols
Constructing a cost-efficient, high-throughput and high-quality single-molecule localization microscope for super-resolution imaging
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Molecular Cell
The interplay between BAX and BAK tunes apoptotic pore growth to control mitochondrial-DNA-mediated inflammation
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Nature Methods
Quantitative analysis of super-resolved structures using ASAP
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PNAS
Dynamic label-free imaging of lipid nanodomains
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