Publications

2019

Charlton S, White M, Jana S, Eland L, Jayathilake P, Burgess J, Chen J, Wipat A, Curtis T. Regulating, measuring and modelling the viscoelasticity of bacterial biofilms. Journal of Bacteriology 2019. In Press.

Brown MR, Baptista JC, Lunn M, Swan DL, Smith SJ, Davenport RJ, Allen BD, Sloan WT, Curtis TP. Coupled Virus - Bacteria Interactions and Ecosystem Function in an Engineered Microbial System. Water Research 2019, 152, 264-273.

2018

Regueira A, Gonzalez-Cabaleiro R, Ofiteru ID, Rodriguez J, Lema JM. Electron bifurcation mechanism and homoacetogenesis explain products yields in mixed culture anaerobic fermentations. Water Research 2018, 141, 349 - 356.

Oyebamiji OK, Wilkinson DJ, Pahala-Gedara J, Rushton SP, Li B, Bridgens B, Zuliani P. A Bayesian approach to modelling the impact of hydrodynamic shear stress on biofilm deformation. PLOS ONE 2018, 13(4), e0195484

Kandemir N, Vollmer W, Jakubovics NS, Chen J. Mechanical interactions between bacteria and hydrogels. Scientific Reports2018, 8, 10893.

Xia Y, Duan P, Chen J. Modelling the nanomechanical responses of biofilms grown on the indenter probe. Processes2018, 6(7), 84.

Cao Y, Su B, Chinnaraj S, Jana S, Bowen L, Charlton S, Duan P, Jakubovics NS, Chen J. Nanostructured titanium surfaces exhibit recalcitrance towards Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm formation. Scientific Reports 2018, 8, 1071.

2017

Gonzalez-Cabaleiro R, Mitchell AM, Smith W, Wipat A, Ofiteru ID. Heterogeneity in pure microbial systems: Experimental measurements and modeling. Frontiers in Microbiology 2017, 8.

Oyebamiji OK, Wilkinson DJ, Jayathilake PG, Curtis TP, Rushton SP, Li B, Gupta P. Gaussian process emulation of an individual-based model simulation of microbial communities. Journal of Computational Science 2017, 22, 69–84.

Jayathilake PG, Gupta P, Li B, Madsen C, Oyebamiji O, Gonzalez-Cabaleiro R, Rushton S, Bridgens B, Swailes D, Allen B, McGough AS, Zuliani P, Ofiteru ID, Wilkinson DJ, Chen J, Curtis TP. A mechanistic individual-based model of microbial communities. PLoS One 2017, 12(8), e0181965.

Skelton DJ, Hallinan JS, Park S, Wipat A. (2016) Computational intelligence for metabolic pathway design: Application to the pentose phosphate pathway. Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB), 2016 IEEE Conference

Jayathilake P, Jana S, Rushton S, Swailes D, Bridgens B, Curtis T, Chen J. Extracellular Polymeric Substance Production and Aggregated Bacteria Colonization Influence the Competition of Microbes in Biofilms. Frontiers in Microbiology 2017, 8, 1-14.

2016

Eland LE, Wipat A, Lee S, Park S, Wu LJ. Microfluidics for bacterial imaging. In: Harwood, C, ed. Methods in Microbiology. London, UK: Elsevier, 2016, pp.69-111.

Project Focus: Biological engineering centre set to boost microbe innovation

New research centre to explore low carbon wastewater treatment

Yunyi Cao, Pengfei Duan, Jinju Chen. Modelling the nanomechanical response of micro particle-matrix system for nanoindentation tests, Nanotechnology, 2016 , 27, 195703

Madsen C, McLaughlin JA, Misirli G, Pocock M, Flanagan K, Hallinan J, Wipat A. The SBOL Stack: A Platform for Storing, Publishing, and Sharing Synthetic Biology Designs. ACS Synthetic Biology 2016, 5(6), 487-497.

2015

Brown MR, Camézuli S, Davenport RJ, Petelenz-Kurdziel E, Øvreås L, Curtis TP. Flow cytometric quantification of viruses in activated sludge. Water Research 2015, 68, 414-422.

Ammar Y, Swailes DC, Bridgens BN, Chen J. Influence of surface roughness on the initial formation of biofilm. Surface and Coatings Technology 2015, 284, 410-416.

Madsen C., Shmarov F., Zuliani P. (2015) BioPSy: An SMT-based Tool for Guaranteed Parameter Set Synthesis of Biological Models. In: Roux O., Bourdon J. (eds) Computational Methods in Systems Biology. CMSB 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9308. Springer, Cham

Pengfei Duan, Jinju Chen, Nanomechanical and microstructure analysis of extracellular matrix layer of immortalized cell line Y201 from human mesenchymal stem cells, Surface & Coatings Technology  (2015), pp.417-421

2014

Baptista JDC, Lunn M, Davenport RJ, Swan DL, Read LF, Brown MR, Morais C, Curtis TP. Agreement between amoA Gene-Specific Quantitative PCR and Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization in the Measurement of Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria in Activated Sludge. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 2014, 80(19), 5901-5910.

 

Ofiţeru ID, Bellucci M, Picioreanu C, Lavric V, Curtis TP. Multi-scale modelling of bioreactor - separator system for wastewater treatment with two-dimensional activated sludge floc dynamics. Water Research 2014, 50, 382-395.

Chen J.  Nanobiomechanics of Living Cells: a review (invited), Royal Society Interface Focus, 2014, 4: 20130055.

M.G. Zhang, J. Chen, X.Q, Feng, Y.P. Cao, On the applicability of Sneddon¹s solution for interpreting the indentation of nonlinear elastic biopolymers, Journal of Applied Mechanics, 2014, 81 (9), 091011