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Overview

Alison Rodger is affiliated with Macquarie University in Australia and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and materials science. Their scholarly work spans a variety of subfields including molecular biology, spectroscopy, materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and biomaterials.

The primary topics of their research focus on gold and silver nanoparticles synthesis and applications, molecular spectroscopy and chirality, protein structure and dynamics, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, lipid membrane structure and behavior, and spectroscopy techniques in biomedical and chemical research.

Rodger's recent publications illustrate a diverse range of interests within these fields. Notable papers include:

  • Sensitive and Direct DNA Mutation Detection by Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Using Rational Designed and Tunable Plasmonic Nanostructures, 2020, Analytical Chemistry
  • Hyper-truncated Asn355- and Asn391-glycans modulate the activity of neutrophil granule myeloperoxidase, 2020, Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • Shape dependent protein-induced stabilization of gold nanoparticles: From a protein corona perspective, 2023, Aggregate
  • Gold Nanostars with Reduced Fouling Facilitate Small Molecule Detection in the Presence of Protein, 2021, Nanomaterials
  • Bayesian inference assessment of protein secondary structure analysis using circular dichroism data - how much structural information is contained in protein circular dichroism spectra?, 2020, Analytical Methods

Their work often appears in prominent scientific venues, with frequent publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Analytical Methods
  • Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry
  • Nanomaterials

Rodger collaborates regularly with a number of coauthors, including:

  • Yuling Wang
  • Anastasiia Tukova
  • Koushik Venkatesan
  • N.P. Chmel
  • Nana Lyu

Best Publications

  • Circular Dichroism and Linear Dichroism

    Bengt Nordén;Alison Rodger

  • Biophysical and biological properties of quadruplex oligodeoxyribonucleotides.

    Virna Đapić;Vedra Abdomerović;Rachel Marrington;Jemma Peberdy

  • DNA interactions of monofunctional organometallic ruthenium(II) antitumor complexes in cell-free media.

    Olga Novakova;Haimei Chen;Oldrich Vrana;Alison Rodger

  • Chemical Composition and Antibacterial Activity of the Essential Oil and the Gum of Pistacia lentiscus Var. chia

    Christina Koutsoudaki;Martin Krsek;Alison Rodger

  • Molecular recognition of a three-way DNA junction by a metallosupramolecular helicate.

    Aneta Oleksy;Alexandre G. Blanco;Roeland Boer;Isabel Usón

  • Linear Dichroism and Circular Dichroism: A Textbook on Polarized-Light Spectroscopy

    Bengt Nordén;Alison Rodger;Tim Dafforn

  • Synthetic metallomolecules as agents for the control of DNA structure

    Adair D. Richards;Alison Rodger

  • Intramolecular DNA Coiling Mediated by a Metallo‐Supramolecular Cylinder

    Michael J. Hannon;Virtudes Moreno;Maria J. Prieto;Erlend Moldrheim

  • ENANTIOPREFERENTIAL DNA-BINDING OF RU-II(1,10-PHENANTHROLINE)3 2+ STUDIED WITH LINEAR AND CIRCULAR-DICHROISM

    Catharina Hiort;Bengt Nordén;Alison Rodger

  • Self-assembly mechanism for a naphthalene-dipeptide leading to hydrogelation.

    Lin Chen;Kyle Morris;Andrea Laybourn;David Elias

  • Circular and linear dichroism of proteins

    Benjamin M. Bulheller;Alison Rodger;Jonathan D. Hirst

  • Optically pure, water-stable metallo-helical ‘flexicate’ assemblies with antibiotic activity

    Suzanne E. Howson;Albert Bolhuis;Viktor Brabec;Guy J. Clarkson

  • Intramolecular DNA coiling mediated by metallo-supramolecular cylinders: differential binding of P and M helical enantiomers

    Isabelle Meistermann;Virtudes Moreno;Maria J. Prieto;Erlend Moldrheim

  • Hairpin-shaped heterometallic luminescent lanthanide complexes for DNA intercalative recognition.

    Peter B Glover;Peter R Ashton;Laura J Childs;Alison Rodger

  • Antiproliferative activity of G-quartet-forming oligonucleotides with backbone and sugar modifications.

    Virna Dapic;Paula J. Bates;John O. Trent;Alison Rodger

  • The CD of ligand-DNA systems. 2. Poly(dA-dT) B-DNA.

    Reidar Lyng;Alison Rodger;Bengt Nordén

  • Improved curve fitting procedures to determine equilibrium binding constants

    Frank H. Stootman;Dianne M. Fisher;Alison Rodger;Janice R. Aldrich-Wright

  • Antimicrobial activity of ruthenium-based intercalators.

    Albert Bolhuis;Lorna Hand;Julia E. Marshall;Adair D. Richards

  • DNA Binding of Ruthenium Tris(1,10-phenanthroline): Evidence for the Dependence of Binding Mode on Metal Complex Concentration.

    Delia Z. M. Coggan;Ian S. Haworth;Paula J. Bates;and Alan Robinson

  • 4‐Picoline‐2,2′:6′,2″‐terpyridine‐platinum(II) — A potent intercalator of DNA

    Angela McCoubrey;Harriet C. Latham;Peter R. Cook;Alison Rodger

  • Sequence selective binding to the DNA major groove: tris(1,10-phenanthroline) metal complexes binding to poly(dG-dC) and poly(dA-dT).

    Ian S. Haworth;Adrian H. Elcock;John Freeman;Alison Rodger

  • Linear Dichroism and Circular Dichroism

    Bengt Nordén;Alison Rodger;Tim Dafforn

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Hannon
Michael J. Hannon University of Birmingham
Timothy R. Dafforn
Timothy R. Dafforn University of Birmingham
Brian F. G. Johnson
Brian F. G. Johnson University of Cambridge
Bengt Nordén
Bengt Nordén Chalmers University of Technology
Louise C. Serpell
Louise C. Serpell University of Sussex
Guy J. Clarkson
Guy J. Clarkson University of Warwick
Graham Hart
Graham Hart University College London
Andrew N. Phillips
Andrew N. Phillips University College London
Richard Gilson
Richard Gilson University College London
Colin Robinson
Colin Robinson University of Kent

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