Gavin Melaugh
Dr. G Melaugh
- Position
- Chancellors Fellow
- Category
- Academic staff
- Location
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James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)
Room 1508
- Email: g.melaugh [at] ed.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)131 651 3456
- Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Gavin is a member of the following School research institute and research areas:
Research institute
Research areas
Biography
Gavin is a National Biofilms Innovation Centre fellow working with Prof. Cait MacPhee and Prof. Rosalind Allen. Gavin studied Chemistry at Queen's University Belfast (QUB), moving to the Physics department to do his PhD in molecular modelling and computer simulations of porous liquids. This work led to the design, synthesis, and characterisation of the first ever liquids of this kind. At Edinburgh, Gavin uses a combination of experiments and computational simulations to investigate aggregation and collective phenomena in biofilm-forming bacteria such as the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa and the wastewater treatment bacteria Comamonas denitrificans.
Gavin currently offers the following PhD project opportunities:
- Controlling the microbial generation of nitrous oxide in wastewater treatment; a pathway to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Developing tractable model systems for filamentous bacteria in wastewater treatment
- Moving and growing among entanglements: the role of DNA in the physics of bacterial swimming and aggregation
Recent publications
- , Chemistry - A European Journal, 27, 52, p. 13268-13274
- , mBio, 7, 2