Cranfield University

Professor Jeremy Ramsden

Chair of Nanotechnology
Location: Building 70, Cranfield University
E: j.ramsden@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 754100
Materials

Current activities

• Self-assembly of giant glycoproteins, which are extremely promising candidates for thin-film lubricants.
• The biological response of living cells to nanotextured surfaces, including issues related to biocompatibility.
• Novel medical and environmental sensors, based on fibre-optic nanointerferometers. 
• The capture, analysis and representation of knowledge, especially in relation to the design of nanomaterials, nanostructures and nanodevices.

Clients

Background

Professor Jeremy Ramsden graduated (natural sciences) from Cambridge University and obtained his doctorate from the Ecole polytechnique fédérale in Lausanne (chemical physics) with a thesis on the electronic properties of semiconductor nanoparticles. After postdoctoral work at Princeton University and the Biocentre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Szeged, he moved to the Biocentre of Basel University in 1988, becoming a member of the faculty in 1994. He was appointed to the Chair of Nanotechnology at Cranfield University in 2002, becoming additionally Director of Research for Bionanotechnology at Cranfield University’s Kitakyushu campus in 2003.

A key theme of Jeremy Ramsden’s work during the past two decades has been macromolecular interactions at solid/liquid interfaces. These underpin his current activities. He has also developed novel experimental methods based on integrated optics for investigating these interactions at the nanoscale. Significant advances in these areas and their applications have been made possible by multidisciplinary qualifications and experience spanning physics, chemistry, biology and informatics. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining in London.

Selected publications

• McColl, J., Yakubov, G.E. and Ramsden, J.J. Complex desorption of mucin from silica. Langmuir 23 (2007) 7096–7100
• Dér, A.,  Kelemen, L.,  Fábián, L., Taneva, S.G.,  Fodor, E., Páli, T., Cupane, A., Cacace, M.G. and Ramsden, J. J. Interfacial water structure controls protein conformation. J. Phys. Chem. B, 111 (2007) 5344–5350
• Dér, A., Valkai, S., Fábián, L., Ormos, P., Ramsden, J.J. and Wolff, E. Integrated optical switching based on the protein bacteriorhodopsin. Photochem. Photobiol. 83 (2007) 393–396
• Brintrup, A.M., Takagi, H., Tiwari, A. and Ramsden, J.J. Evaluation of sequential, multi-objective, and parallel interactive genetic algorithms for  multi-objective  optimization  problems. J. Biol. Phys. Chem. 6 (2006) 137–146
• Banzhaf, W., Beslon, G., Christensen, S., Foster, J.A., Képès, F., Lefort, V., Miller, J.F., Radman, M and Ramsden, J.J. From artificial evolution to computational evolution: a research agenda. Nature Reviews Genetics 7 (2006) 729–735
• Sharkany, J.P., Korposh, S.O., Batori-Tarci, Z.I., Trikur, I.I. and Ramsden, J.J. Bacteriorhodopsin-based biochromic films for chemical sensors. Sensors Actuators B 107 (2005) 77–81
• Wakamoto, Y., Ramsden, J.J. and Yasuda, K. Single-cell growth and division dynamics showing epigenetic correlations. Analyst (2005) 311–317
• Ramsden, J.J. What is nanotechnology? Nanotechnology Perceptions 1 (2005) 3–17
• Vohradský, J. and  Ramsden, J.J. Genome resource utilization during procaryotic development. FASEB J. 15 (2001) 2054–2056
• Calonder, C., Talbot, J. and  Ramsden, J.J. Mapping the electron donor/acceptor potentials on protein surfaces. J. Phys. Chem. B 105 (2001) 725–729
• Guemouri, L., Ogier, J., Zekhnini, Z. and Ramsden, J.J. The architecture of fibronectin at surfaces. J. Chem. Phys. 113 (2000) 8183–8186
• Lavalle, Ph., DeVries, A.L., Cheng, C-H.C., Scheuring, S. and Ramsden, J.J. Direct observation of postadsorption aggregration of antifreeze glycoproteins on silicates. Langmuir 16 (2000) 5785–5789
• Ramsden, J.J. The specificity of biomolecular particle adhesion. Colloids Surf. A 173 (2000) 237–249
• Cacace, M.G., Landau, E.M. and Ramsden, J.J. The Hofmeister series: salt and solvent effects on interfacial phenomena.Q. Rev. Biophys. 30 (1997) 241–278.

Further publications