Research
Recombinant Spider Silk Fibre Spinning
This video by Anupama Ghimire demonstrates our current silk fibre wet-spinning process (detailed in Simmons et. al. (2019) ACS Biomater Sci Eng).
Our Instruments:
Thermo Nicolet iN10 FTIR spectromicroscope and iZ90 FTIR spectrometer
Brookhaven BI-200 Dynamic & Static Scattering (DLS & SLS ) Instrument
Olis DSM20 CD Spectropolarimeter
PTI QuantaMaster-4 Spectrofluorometer
Varian Cary Eclipse Spectrofluorometer
Olis Upcycled HP 8452A Diode Array UV/Vis Spectrophotometer
Varian Cary 50 UV/Vis Spectrophotometer
Bruker Neo 600 MHz NMR (solution- & solid-state) in our BioNMR CORE
Daedalus High Pressure NMR apparatus
Bruker EFree 3.2 mm MAS probe (13C, 15N, 1H)
RheoSense microVisc Viscometer & Temperature-Controlled Enclosure
Home-built Tensile Tester (introduced in Xu et al. (2019) Small)
JPK NanoWizard II Ultra Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) - Standalone mode
JPK NanoWizard II Ultra AFM on Zeiss Axio Observer A1 Inverted Optical Microscope
Infors Minifors 2 Bioreactor
Optika B510-POL Polarized Light Microscope
Aapptec Sharp Freeze -110 Lyophilizer
French Press (old, but useful!)
Big thanks to the following for current & recent funding:
