Prof. Rosalind Allen

- Position:
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Personal Chair of Biological Physics
- Research Theme:
- Condensed Matter and Photonics
- Research Group:
- Soft Matter, Statistical Physics and Biophysics
- Institution:
- Edinburgh
- Email address:
- rosalind.allen@ed.ac.uk
- Website:
- http://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/~rallen2/
- Telephone number:
- +44 (0)131 651 7197
- Address:
- School of Physics and Astronomy, James Clerk Maxwell Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, United Kingdom
Research interests
Dr. Allen's research focuses on biological and soft condensed matter physics, using simulations, theory and experiments. She is particularly interested in applying ideas and methods from physics to the important emerging biological question of how microbial populations develop, interact and function as ecosystems. Dr. Allen also contributes to the development of advanced computer simulation methods, to our understanding of the kinetics of protein aggregation, and to understanding the behaviour of non-equilibrium active matter.
Teaching
I jointly teach the level 11 course Biological Physics.
Research outputs
- Trajectory reweighting for non-equilibrium steady states DOI, Molecular Physics, 116, 21-22 , p. 3104-3113 (2018)
- Bacterial growth: a statistical physicist's guide DOI, Reports on Progress in Physics, 82, 1 (2018)
- Predicting the dynamics of bacterial growth inhibition by ribosome-targeting antibiotics DOI, Physical Biology, 14, 6 (2017)
- Oxic-anoxic regime shifts mediated by feedbacks between biogeochemical processes and microbial community dynamics DOI, Nature Communications, 8 (2017)
- The Pseudomonas aeruginosa PSL Polysaccharide Is a Social but Noncheatable Trait in Biofilms, mBio (2017)
- Assembly of Microbial Communities in Replicate Nutrient-Cycling Model Ecosystems Follows Divergent Trajectories, Leading to Alternate Stable States DOI, Environmental Microbiology, 19, p. 3374-3386 (2017)
- Antibiotic resistance: a physicist’s view DOI, Physical Biology, 13, 4 , p. 045001 (2016)
- Role of Multicellular Aggregates in Biofilm Formation DOI, mBio, 7, 2 (2016)
- Shaping the growth behaviour of biofilms initiated from bacterial aggregates DOI, PLoS One, 11, 3 (2016)
- Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding of community function and dynamics DOI, The ISME Journal, 10, p. 2557-2568 (2016)
Last updated: 19 Feb 2018 at 21:11