Author Archives: Richard Sear

Ian Williams (IBEC/UCL) Diffusioosmosis & Convection in Nonelectrolyte Gradients, 12th June 2020 Alex Routh (Cambridge) Making rubber gloves, 24th June 2020 Dermot Brougham (UCD) Implications for biomedical applications of magnetic nanoparticle suspensions, 22nd July 2020 Nick Ballard from the University of the Basque Country, X, 29th July 2020.  Giuseppe Portale – Groningen, NL 2nd September 2020 CristinaContinue reading “Soft Matter Zoom external seminars”

Liquid droplets phase separation inside cells The complex viscous energy-consuming fluid inside cells is very far from uniform, as this schematic attempts to show. The P granules (purple) and TRIM5alpha (orange) are both examples of liquid-droplet-like structures inside cells. In other words it looks like (functional) liquid/liquid phase separation occurs inside cells. I was co-chair of theContinue reading “Biological physics”

My biological physics is mainly on the two linked topics of phase separation in cells, and the dynamics of proteins, RNA, etc, inside cells. Liquid droplets phase separation inside cells The complex viscous energy-consuming fluid inside cells is very far from uniform, as this schematic attempts to show. The P granules (purple) and TRIM5alpha (orange) areContinue reading “Biological physics”

The course will involve a little bit of python (I will assume no prior knowledge). A beginners course on python, courtesy of my Surrey colleague James Adams, is here. That webpage has its own set of notes and examples, and has links to a number of standard introductory references. Lecture notes: Crystals & Crystallisation pdf notesContinue reading “Homepage for Sear part of May 2018 Maynooth RAMP course”