Current Research Programmes

• Development and application of new image analysis and processing technologies
• Application and development of advanced photonics and optical technologies, especially non-linear imaging, deep optical sectioning microscopy and adaptive optics for image correction
• Imaging of beating Zebra fish hearts using Single Plane Illumination Microscopy (SPIM)
• The imagining of structural protein ensembles and their modifications (Project with Proctor and Gamble)
• Development of circularly polarised luminescence microscopy and Responsive CPL Probes
• Water soluble, non-toxic stains and responsive ratiometric probes
• Establishing fast spectral imaging methods for cellular analysis using portable CCD technology
• The contribution of the notch pathway, a key developmental regulator, to scarring alopecias
• Endocytic invagination and vesicle Scission
• Determination of the mechanism of cytoskeletal reorganisation in response to pathogen infection
• Sensitivity of the lens epithelium to ionising radiation
• Modelling the vertebrate eye lens
• Harnessing lens regeneration to control
• Microbes metabolism and aging
• The role of diet and gastrointestinal microbes in animal aging and metabolism
• How cell division varies with cell identity
• Novel high temporal and spacial imaging tools and methodologies for melanosome trafficking and collagen deposition
• Development of Bioimaging approaches to Biomechanics