Paula Mendes: Nanotechnology - expanding the function and utility of artificial biological interfaces

Invited talk at the Glasgow Biomaterials Seminar Series 
June 2nd 2015

Prof. Paula Mendes
University of Birmingham, School of Chemical Engineering

Paula gave an excellent talk about her activity in the area of artificial biological interfaces for analysis, testing interactions, and directing cellular and molecular processes. This ranged from interfaces designed to assess the intracellular state of the cell, to switchable surfaces that enabled/disabled bacterial or cellular adhesion, and extended to molecular imprinting of protein glycosylation states.


More about Paula Mendes: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/chemical-engineering/mendes-paula.aspx

Papers authored/co-authored by Paula relevant to the talk:
P1 (middle/right 3pm) Background overview/review: P. M. Mendes, Cellular nanotechnology: making biological interfaces smarter, Chem. Soc. Rev. 2013, 42: 9207

P1 (bottom): Rawson et al. Tailoring 3D-Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Anchored to Indium Tin Oxide for Natural Cellular Uptake and Intracellular Sensing, Nano Lett. 2013, 13: 1

P1 (top left & middle): Pranzetti et al. An Electrically Reversible Switchable Surface to Control and Study Early Bacterial Adhesion Dynamics in Real-Time, Adv. Mater. 2013, 25: 2181

P1 (top right): Yeung et al. Modulation of Biointeractions by Electrically Switchable Oligopeptide Surfaces: Structural Requirements and Mechanism, Adv. Mat. Interfaces 2014, 1: 1300085

P2 top: Lashkor et al. Switching specific biomolecular interactions on surfaces under complex biological conditions, Analyst, 2014,139: 5400.

P2 (middle): Wang et al. An electrochemical method for the sensitive and selective determination of glucose concentration using a bis-boronic acid modified electrode, Analyst, 2013, 138, 7146

P2 (bottom right): discussion with Matthew Dalby, Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez, Gabriel Pemberton & Monica Tsimbouri.