Summary
Matthew is an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow working with Dr. Yuval Elani and Prof. Oscar Ces. His research focuses on developing hydrogel based biomimetic artificial cells and tissues.
Previously, in his PhD he developed a range of hydrogel artificial cell platforms. Before his postgraduate studies, Matthew completed a Msci at Imperial College London where he worked with a variety of model lipid membrane platforms throughout his master’s project and through a research internship at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Publications
Journals
Allen ME, Hindley J, O'Toole N, et al., 2023, Biomimetic Behaviours in Hydrogel Artificial Cells through Embedded Organelles, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Usa, Vol:120, ISSN:0027-8424
Allen ME, Hindley JW, Baxani DK, et al., 2022, Hydrogels as functional components in artificial cell systems, Nature Reviews Chemistry, Vol:6, ISSN:2397-3358, Pages:562-578
Abdel Aty H, Strutt R, Mcintyre N, et al., 2022, Machine learning platform for determining experimental lipid phase behaviour from small angle X-ray scattering patterns by pre-training on synthetic data, Digital Discovery, Vol:1, Pages:98-107
Allen ME, Albon J, Elani Y, 2021, Layer-by-layer assembly of multi-layered droplet interface bilayers (multi-DIBs), Chemical Communications, Vol:58, ISSN:1359-7345, Pages:60-63
Allen ME, Elani Y, Brooks NJ, et al., 2021, The effect of headgroup methylation on polymorphic phase behaviour in hydrated N-methylated phosphoethanolamine: palmitic acid membranes, Soft Matter, Vol:17, ISSN:1744-683X, Pages:5763-5771