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Delighted to announce that 2026 applications to the Centre for Doctoral Training in Engineering Biology for Biomedicine are now open. (https://eb4bm.org) We're now part of the UKRI TechExpert scheme - providing a £10k tax free boost the regular UKRI stipend to home students. Please spread the word and encourage your students to apply.

Mark Wallace Nov 19

Triply Responsive Control of Ion Transport with an Artificial Channel
Creates a Switchable AND to OR Logic Gate.

First paper from our collaboration with the McTernan group now published in Angewandte Chemie. Props to Kharina Fenton.
https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202517444

Mark Wallace Oct 21

Hearty congratulations to Kharina Fenton for her prize-winning PhD talk at Functional Materials 2025 in Prague. Preprint to follow.

Mark Wallace Sep 25

Why can't we get molecular structures of pores formed by antimicrobial peptides? Using optical single-channel recording and single-molecule imaging, our data suggests the pores are stable but individual peptides constantly diffuse in and out. This "dynamic exchange" may explain the structural challenges and points toward new approaches for antimicrobial design. Preprint up at https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.09.18.677094

Mark Wallace Sep 18, 2025

Getting artificial cells to divide and self-replicate is hard. Let's cheat! If a water droplet is enough to be an artificial compartment we can control that process directly using digital microfluidics.

https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.05.23.655734

Mark Wallace Apr 20, 2023

RT @GentlemanLab
Please RT. Join us! 👩‍🔬🧪We're hiring a Research Assistant with a background in Chemistry to join our interdisciplinary team. Fantastic location in central London 🌆working with brilliant, lovely people in a supportive environment. Apply by 15 May. 👇

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/066006-research-assistant

Research Assistant

King's College London

Mark Wallace Mar 30, 2023

Great #POL2023 meeting, time to head home. Fantastic to see all UK biophysics under one roof. Kudos to @PhysicsofLifeUK, @BritBiophysSoc, IoP @BioPhysicsUK, Physics of Living Matter, & Physics Meets Biology.

Mark Wallace Mar 29, 2023

RT @Joannewon6
Wallace lab attendees at the #physicsoflife conference. Jam packed with lots of interesting talks and cool science @markianwallace @kclchemistry @PhysicsNews

Mark Wallace Mar 20, 2023

RT @ChrisToseland
I don’t usually post personal news but Clinicians have told us to pull every lever.

Our daughter has with #dipg Brain cancer. There is no cure and typically 9m life expectancy.

If anyone knows of trials then please get in contact! #braincancer #childrenscancer @CR_UK

Mark Wallace Mar 9, 2023

Discovered this in my 9yr old’s schoolbag this morning. I have no idea. Do I open? Or nuke from orbit?

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