Will Trewby
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Will started his academic journey as a physicist exploring new ways to detect neutrinos – the tiniest components of matter, passing through us all at a rate of billions per second. This seemed to be a rather large number of particles to worry about, and so he spent his PhD worrying about imaging single ions of table salt instead. The way they seemed to stick to each other at the interface between water and cell membranes was particularly worrying and kept him busy for some time.
Post-doctorate, he had a brief saunter into the world outside of academia, trading his atomic force microscope (AFM) for machine-learning algorithms and data engineering. He decided, however, that he was far more interested in his biophysics research, and took up a position at Durham. This time he focussed on the dynamics of salt ions, as well as the lipid molecules which make up cell membranes. In Bart's group at the LCN, Will has made another jump up the biophysical length-scale, and is currently using AFM to study the structure and dynamics of the outer layers of living bacteria. He hopes to understand more about how they construct and adapt their membranes in real time and how this helps protect them against antibiotics and other things we choose to throw at them. Will loves running, cooking for friends and family and terrible music. |
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