Prof Julien Gautrot
PhD
Research Group Members
Research Assistants
 BOSCH FORTEA, Minerva |  MEGONE, William |  NADAL, Clémence |
Current PhD Projects
| Thesis Title |
|---|
| A Dynamic Model of Soft Tissue Integration to Dental Hard Tissue |
| Biophysics of Self-Assembled Protein Nanosheets for Stem Cell-Based Biotechnologies |
| Cardiomyocytes, Mechanobiology, Rigidity sensing, Micropatterning, Traction Force Measurement |
| CSC/Visiting student |
| Design of an organ-on-a-chip model of soft-hard tissue interfaces |
| Design of polymer brush vectors for controlled RNA delivery. |
| Design of synthetic nanostructured hydrogel to regulate microvascularisation |
| Development of a new High Throughput CRISPR platform for detection of microRNA |
| Development of a novel hybrid membrane-crystallisation based liquid phase synthesis of Tides |
| Engineered Recombinant Strategies to Organo-Hydrogel Design with Applications from Plant-Based Foods to Tissue Engineering |
| Engineering retinal vascularization on a chip to model pathological events in eye diseases and study the effect of modulator drugs |
| Extraction of lipids from algae suspensions for biofuel applications |
| Membrane Enhanced Peptide Synthesis |
| Membrane Separation in API Manufacture ? Scoping and Performance Prediction |
| Microdroplet-based microfluidics for direct reprogramming of human pluripotent stem cells |
| Organo-Hydrogel Design with Applications |
| Polymer brushes as a delivery tool to DNA vaccine |
| Protein nanosheet engineering, bioemulsion design and application in stem cell technologies |
| Self-assembled peptide droplet interfaces for simple screening of stem cell microenvironments and micromanipulation of colonies |
| Study of ion responsive polymer brushes as smart coatings and physical gels models |
| Study of Liquid-liquid interfaces |
| Targeted RNA delivery with polymer nanomaterials for GBM |
Past PhD Projects
| Thesis Title | Year |
|---|---|
| Design of polymer brush vectors for RNA delivery | 2023 |
| Models of Matrix Remodelling at Soft-Hard Tissue Interfaces | 2023 |
| Design of a microfluidics integrated microvascularised human skin-on-a-chip tissue model | 2022 |
| Design of nanosheets and microdroplet technologies | 2022 |
| Development of blood interactive co-assembling systems for regenerative medicine applications. | 2022 |
| Development of Self-healing and Recyclable Elastomers | 2022 |
| Novel Silicone Elastomers for extrusion based 3D printing for organ-on-a-chip applications | 2022 |
| Culture of Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Nanosheets Assembled at the Surface of Liquid Microcarriers | 2021 |
| A Novel Role for microRNA-214 in Inflammatory Smooth Muscle Cell Differentiation from Adventitia Stem/progenitor Cells and Arterial Remodelling | 2020 |
| Design of Biomaterials for Soft Tissue Adhesion | 2020 |
| Hyaluronic acid-based peptide-functionalised engineered soft matrices via thiol-ene coupling | 2020 |
| Novel Glycopolymer Architectures for Biological Applications: A Supramolecular Approach | 2020 |
| Biomaterials Design for Epicardial Placement of Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Cardiac Repair | 2019 |
| Design and Characterisation of Soft Biomaterials and Interfaces for Bio-Adhesives and Cell Culture | 2019 |
| Developing a novel organ-on-a-chip model to study ovarian cancer | 2019 |
| Mircrofluidic-based Model of the Microvasculature to Study the Impact of Glycocalyx on Angiogenesis | 2019 |
| Nanofabrication and Engineering of Gene Delivery Vectors | 2019 |
| Cationic polymer brush coated nanoparticles for gene delivery | 2018 |
| Generating modular synthetic proteins | 2018 |
| Mechanoregulation of nucleus architecture and genome function in pluripotent stem cells | 2018 |
| Silicone Cross-linking Chemistries: From Kinetics to Dynamics of Mechanical Properties for Biomedical Applications | 2018 |
| Micro-patterning of peptide-based biomaterials | 2017 |
| Nano-scale regulation of mechano-transduction and stem cell fate decision | 2017 |
| Nanoengineered electrospun fibre for drug release and cell culture | 2017 |
| Nanoscale engineering of interfaces to control stem cell behaviour and mechano-transduction | 2017 |
| Developing Cationic Nanoparticles for Gene Delivery | 2016 |