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Prof. Alison Rodger

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Prof. Alison Rodger
Professor of Biophysical Chemistry

BSc(Hons), PhD (Sydney), MA (Oxon), DSc (Sydney), FRSC, FRACI

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Director of the MOAC Doctoral Training Centre

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Research Summary
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Biomacromolecule structure and function including DNA, membrane proteins and fibrous proteins including application to bacterial cell division. Intermolecular interactions. Developing new polarised spectroscopy techniques for biomacromolecules. Particular expertise in circular and linear dichroism, fluorescence. Analytical chemistry, especially as related to biological applications.

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Linear dichroism and circular dichroism: A textbook on polarized spectroscopy
B. Nordén, A. Rodger, T. Dafforn, Royal Society of Chemistry, 2010, pp293. DOI: 10.1039/9781847559524

The pH dependence of polymerization and bundling by the essential bacterial cytoskeltal protein FtsZ
R. Pacheco-Gomez, D.I. Roper, T.R. Dafforn, A. Rodger, PLoS One 2011, 6(6), e19369

Linear dichroism of some prototypical proteins
B.M. Bulheller, A. Rodger, M.R. Hicks, T.R. Dafforn, L.C Serpell, K. Marshall, E.H.C. Bromley, P.J.S. King, K.J. Channon, D.N. Woolfson, J.D. Hirst, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131, 13305–14

Folding and membrane insertion of the pore-forming peptide gramicidin occurs as a concerted process
M.R. Hicks, A. Damianoglou, A. Rodger, T.R. Dafforn, Journal of Molecular Biology, 2008, 383, 358-366

A new reference material for UV-visible circular dichroism spectroscopy
A. Damianoglou, E.J. Crust, M.J. Hicks, S.E. Howson, A.E. Knight, J. Ravi, P. Scott, A. Rodger, Chirality, 2008, 20 1029-38

Peptide Adsorption to Lipid Bilayers: Slow Processes Revealed by Linear Dichroism Spectroscopy
S.M. Ennaceur, M.R. Hicks, C.J. Pridmore, T.R. Dafforn, A. Rodger, J.M. Sanderson, Biophysical Journal, 2009, 96, 1399–1407


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