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.
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
Abigail Thom (PhD student)
Abigail is working on the development of multiphoton fluorescence microscopy for the study of fluorescent biomolecular building blocks.
Former PhD students and Postdoctoral Researchers:
Dr. Henry Sansom (PhD student)Dr. Gill Cadden (PhD student and postdoctoral researcher)
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 )