Dr. Gillian Cadden (postdoctoral researcher)
Gill completed her undergraduate degree in Chemistry at the University of Glasgow in 2017. During her final year project, she studied the mechanism and kinetics of rotational DNA strand exchange by the Serine recombinase enzyme Tn3 resolvase using single-molecule FRET methods. Her PhD project continued this work and was jointly supervised with Prof. Marshall Stark (MVLS). She now works on the single-molecule detection of oligosaccharides, in collaboration with Dr. John Gardiner (Univ. Manchester).
Dr. Steven Magennis (group leader)
Steven is a Reader in the School of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow. He studied for a BSc and PhD in the School of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. He worked as a postdoc in the School of Physics at the University of St. Andrews (with Prof. Ifor Samuel), then at the Collaborative Optical Spectroscopy, Micromanipulation and Imaging Centre (COSMIC) at the University of Edinburgh. Following the award of an EPSRC advanced research fellowship, Steven moved to the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf working with Prof. Claus Seidel on single-molecule multi-parameter fluorescence detection (MFD). He joined the University of Manchester in 2007, where he set up the single-molecule labs in the Photon Science Institute. He moved to the University of Glasgow in 2013. Email: steven.magennis@glasgow.ac.uk
Henry Sansom (PhD student)
Henry completed his undergraduate degree in Chemistry at the University of Glasgow in 2020. His PhD project concerns the develpment and application of multiphoton fluorescence microscopy for the study of fluorescent biomolecular building blocks.
Ipsita Mahapatra (PhD student)
Ipsita is based in the lab of Prof. Marshall Stark and works on site-specific recombination.
Katie Johnstone (PhD student)
Katie completed her undergraduate degree in Chemistry at the University of Glasgow in 2023. Her PhD project concerns the structure, dynamics and interactions of repeat-containing secondary DNA structures.
Former PhD students and Postdoctoral Researchers:
Dr. Grant McKenzie (postdoctoral researcher)Dr. Tianyu Hu (PhD student and postdoctoral researcher)
Dr. Raul Berrocal-Martin (PhD student and postdoctoral researcher)
Dr. David Nobis (PhD student)
Dr. Sergio Lopez (postdoctoral researcher)
Dr. Rachel Fisher (PhD student: joint with Prof. Anita Jones, University of Edinburgh)
Dr. Mike Morten (postdoctoral researcher)
Dr. Laura Baltierra-Jasso (PhD student and postdoctoral researcher)
Dr. Steve Quinn (postdoctoral researcher)
Dr. Tara Sabir (postdoctoral researcher)
Dr. Anita Toulmin (PhD student )
Dr. Richard Lane (PhD student )