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Derek Marsh is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has contributed to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Materials Science. Their research spans several subfields including Biophysics, Biomedical Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Bioengineering, and Molecular Biology.

Their work focuses on topics such as Electron Spin Resonance Studies, Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials, Conducting Polymers and Applications, Analytical Chemistry and Sensors, Ion Transport and Channel Regulation, Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies, and Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes.

Publications featuring their research include:

  • "Piezoresistive Elastomer Composites Used for Pressure Sensing" (2023) in IEEE Sensors Journal
  • "Geometry and water accessibility of the inhibitor binding site of Na+-pump: Pulse- and CW-EPR study" (2021) in Biophysical Journal
  • "Rate constants for saturation-recovery EPR and ELDOR of 14N-Spin labels" (2023) in Journal of Magnetic Resonance

The venues where their research has been published showcase a range of interdisciplinary journals:

  • IEEE Sensors Journal
  • Biophysical Journal
  • Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Frequent collaborators in their research include Sara Naderizadeh, Giovanni Santagiuliana, Wei Tu, Emiliano Bilotti, and James J. C. Busfield.

Best Publications

  • Lateral pressure in membranes

    Derek Marsh

  • Handbook of Lipid Bilayers, Second Edition

    Derek Marsh

  • Phospholipid Bilayers: Physical Principles and Models

    Gregor Cevc;Derek Marsh

  • Structural characterization of copper(II) binding to α-synuclein: Insights into the bioinorganic chemistry of Parkinson's disease

    Rodolfo M. Rasia;Carlos W. Bertoncini;Derek Marsh;Wolfgang Hoyer

  • Lateral Pressure Profile, Spontaneous Curvature Frustration, and the Incorporation and Conformation of Proteins in Membranes

    Derek Marsh

  • Elastic curvature constants of lipid monolayers and bilayers.

    Derek Marsh

  • Cholesterol-induced fluid membrane domains: A compendium of lipid-raft ternary phase diagrams.

    Derek Marsh

  • Protein modulation of lipids, and vice-versa, in membranes.

    Derek Marsh

  • Calorimetric studies of the gel-fluid (L beta-L alpha) and lamellar-inverted hexagonal (L alpha-HII) phase transitions in dialkyl- and diacylphosphatidylethanolamines.

    John M. Seddon;Gregor Cevc;Derek Marsh

  • Different Membrane Anchoring Positions of Tryptophan and Lysine in Synthetic Transmembrane α-Helical Peptides

    Maurits R.R. de Planque;John A.W. Kruijtzer;Rob M.J. Liskamp;Derek Marsh

  • Electron Spin Resonance: Spin Labels

    D. Marsh

  • X-ray diffraction study of the polymorphism of hydrated diacyl- and dialkylphosphatidylethanolamines.

    John M. Seddon;Gregor Cevc;R. D. Kaye;Derek Marsh

  • Influence of lipid/peptide hydrophobic mismatch on the thickness of diacylphosphatidylcholine bilayers. A 2H NMR and ESR study using designed transmembrane alpha-helical peptides and gramicidin A.

    M. R. R. De Planque;D. V. Greathouse;R. E. Koeppe;H. Schafer

  • Lipid membranes with grafted polymers: physicochemical aspects

    Derek Marsh;Rosa Bartucci;Luigi Sportelli

  • Liquid-ordered phases induced by cholesterol: A compendium of binary phase diagrams

    Derek Marsh

  • Titration of the phase transition of phosphatidylserine bilayer membranes. Effects of pH, surface electrostatics, ion binding, and head-group hydration.

    Gregor Cevc;Anthony Watts;Derek Marsh

  • Structure, dynamics and composition of the lipid-protein interface. Perspectives from spin-labelling.

    Derek Marsh;László I Horváth

  • Evidence for phase boundary lipid. Permeability of Tempo-choline into dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles at the phase transition.

    Derek Marsh;Anthony Watts;Peter F. Knowles

  • Polarity and permeation profiles in lipid membranes

    Derek Marsh

  • Phase diagrams of lipid mixtures relevant to the study of membrane rafts

    Félix M. Goñi;Alicia Alonso;Luis A. Bagatolli;Rhoderick E. Brown

  • Control of the structure and fluidity of phosphatidylglycerol bilayers by pH titration.

    Anthony Watts;Karl Harlos;Wilfried Maschke;Derek Marsh

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Heimburg
Thomas Heimburg University of Copenhagen
Anthony Watts
Anthony Watts University of Oxford
Peter F. Knowles
Peter F. Knowles University of Leeds
Anthony Watts
Anthony Watts University of Oxford
John M. Seddon
John M. Seddon Imperial College London
Thomas E. Thompson
Thomas E. Thompson University of Virginia
Konrad Sandhoff
Konrad Sandhoff University of Bonn
Claudio Toniolo
Claudio Toniolo University of Padua
B. de Kruijff
B. de Kruijff Utrecht University
Francisco J. Barrantes
Francisco J. Barrantes National Scientific and Technical Research Council

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