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9 - Physics
University of Sheffield
The polymer physics and chemistry of microbial cell attachment and adhesion
The paper represented the physical sciences part of the cell-mineral interface team supported by EPSRC GR/S72467 "Nanometre scale observation of biodegradation in soil and groundwater"
Geoghegan's contribution was to supervise the force spectroscopy aspects contained within, but mainly to present the concept that bacterial adhesion is best considered over many length scales; i.e. the single molecule level is necessary but not sufficient to understand bacterial adhesion. This "manifesto" was ultimately down to Geoghegan (first author) and the PI on the above grant, Steven Banwart (last author). Geoghegan presented this approach at the FD139 meeting, held in York in 2008.
