- 7 fully-funded PhD studentships in Biophysics (BiPAS CDT)
- PhD Study of the mechanism/s of biological effects of low-power radiofrequency emissions
- PhD Study of marine microbiology and underwater diversity
- Postdoc position: Shape, shear, search mathematical models of bacteria
- 2 PhD projects in Soft Matter Physics: theory and experiment of self-assembling patchy virus rods (Paris & Bordeaux, France)
- Ph.D and postdoc positions in theoretical-computational membrane biophysics
- PhD Scholarship in microhydrodynamics at IPPT PAS, Warsaw, Poland
Surface structures of biological systems using surface sensitive methods, particularly neutron and X-ray scattering.
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Duncan McGillivray is expert in neutron scattering. The School of Chemical Sciences at the University of Auckland is equipped with X-ray and complementary characterisation methods (including ATR-IR, Electrical impedance spectroscopy, ellipsometry) for model biological membranes, and has routine access to the Australian OPAL reactor neutron source and the Australian Synchrotron, which are world class neutron and X-ray sources.
Selection of relevant publications
2010. "Neutron reflectometry of supported hybrid bilayers with inserted peptide." Soft Matter, 6 (5): 862.
. 2008. "Soluble Amyloid beta-Oligomers Affect Dielectric Membrane Properties by Bilayer Insertion and Domain Formation: Implications for Cell Toxicity." Biophysical Journal, 95 (10): 4845-4861.
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