Personal statement
My research interests lie in exploiting properties of diamond that allow it to sense electric and magnetic fields. By optically imaging sub-100nm particles of diamond, I hope to use them as sensors for detecting the fields generated by living cells, particularly neurons.
In order to take advantage of the small size of the nanodiamond, I also use superresolution techniques to increase the precision with which we can determine the location of the nanodiamond. As the particles are embedded in living tissue, it will also be necessary to use adaptive optics methods to correct for the optical aberrations introduced by the tissue and which, uncorrected, would degrade the quality of the imaging.
Professional activities
- Biophotonics and Biomedical Microscopy
- Organiser
- 10/10/2018
- RMS Frontiers in Bioimaging 2018
- Member of programme committee
- 27/6/2018
- Annual meeting for the SHIELD Consortium
- Invited speaker
- 14/6/2018
- Institute of Physics (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 1/10/2017
- Royal Society - My Experiences as a University Research Fellow
- Speaker
- 13/9/2017
- Brexit research and Innovation Futures Workshop
- Participant
- 24/8/2017
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Projects
- Multiscale neural imaging - from synapse to whole-organism
- Patton, Brian (Principal Investigator)
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- Period 01-Dec-2017 - 31-Mar-2021
- Low-cost, open-access imaging for identifying and quantifying water quality (GCRF)
- Patton, Brian (Principal Investigator)
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- Period 04-Dec-2017 - 03-Dec-2018
- Nanodiamond as an optically robust fluorophore for targeted imaging of neural structures
- Patton, Brian (Principal Investigator)
- This is a studentship awarded under the Diamond Sciences and Technologies Centre for Doctoral Training, headed by the University of Warwick.
- Period 01-Sep-2017 - 01-Sep-2021
- Super-resolution microscopy for clinical research: Detecting mitochondrial interactions with intracellular bacteria after bacterial challenge.
- Patton, Brian (Principal Investigator)
- This is an Optima Centre for Doctoral Training-funded PhD studentship.
- Period 01-Sep-2017 - 01-Sep-2021
- Direct Wavefront Sensing for Efficient Measurement of Electronic Spin in Nanodiamond
- Patton, Brian (Principal Investigator)
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- Period 15-Mar-2018 - 14-Mar-2019
- EPSRC-Royal Society fellowship engagement (2013):Visualising thoughts: ESR measurement of nanodiamonds targetted to neural structures
- Patton, Brian (Principal Investigator)
- Please refer to attached Royal Society application.
- Period 21-Oct-2016 - 30-Nov-2018
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Address
Physics
John Anderson Building
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