Dr. Khizar Sheikh

Senior Research Fellow

Khizar graduated from Bath University, UK, in 1987 and worked in the semiconductor industry for 10 years. He completed a degree in Biochemistry in 2000 at Sheffield University, UK, and subsequently a PhD studying self-assembled monolayers and lipid bilayers using primarily AFM at Leeds University, UK, in 2005. His subsequent postdoctoral fellowships focused on the study of patterned solid supported lipid bilayers, interactions between supported bilayers and actin networks, and the structure and mechanical properties of ceramide-based bilayers.

 

 

 

 

Current Research Interests

The study of the structure and hydration of lipid bilayers, membranes and rafts using high resolution, low noise AFM in aqueous buffers.

 

 

Publications

Manipulation and charge determination of proteins in photopatterned solid supported bilayers, Han, X., Cheetham, M.R., Sheikh, K., Olmsted, P.D. Bushby, R.J., and Evans, S.D., Integr. Biol., 1, 205-211, (2009).

Minimal F-Actin Cytoskeletal System for Planar Supported Phospholipid Bilayers, Barfoot, R., Sheikh, K.H., Johnson, B., and Evans, S., Langmuir, 24, 13, 6827-6836 (2008).

A Model System to Study the Insertion of Cholesterol into a Phospholipid Monolayer, Sheikh, K. H., Christenson, H. K., Bushby, R. J., and Evans, S. D., J. Phys. Chem. B, 111, 2, 379-386, (2007).

Titration of Ionizable Monolayers by Measurement of the Electric Double-Layer Force, Sheikh, K.H., Evans, S.D. and Christenson, H.K., Langmuir, 23, 13, 6893-6895, (2007).

Phase separation in mixed self-assembled monolayers and its effect on biomimetic membranes, Jeuken, L.J.C., Daskalakis, N.N., Han, X., Sheikh, K., Erbe, A., Bushby, R.J. and Evans, S.D., Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 124, 2, 501, (2007).

Supported Bilayer Lipid Membrane Arrays on Photopatterned Self-Assembled Monolayers, Han, X., Pradeep, S.N.D., Critchley, K., Sheikh, K., Bushby, R.J., and Evans, S.D., Chemistry - A European Journal, 13, 28, 7957, (2007).

 

Contact Details

Phone: +353-1-716-6762

Fax: +353-1-716-6777

Email: khizar.sheikh-at-ucd.ie