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.
His current research work involves using FM-AFM to study lipid bilayers at high resolution.

Publications

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

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

3. Phase separation in mixed self-assembled monolayers and its effect on biomimetic membranes. Lars J.C. Jeuken, Nikolaos N. Daskalakis, Xiaojun Han, Khizar Sheikh, Andreas Erbe, Richard J. Bushby and Stephen D. Evans. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, Volume 124, Issue 2, 26 June 2007, Pages 501-509

4. Supported Bilayer Lipid Membrane Arrays on Photopatterned Self-Assembled Monolayers, Xiaojun Han, Singh N. D. Pradeep, Kevin Critchley, Khizar Sheikh, Richard J. Bushby, Stephen D. EvansChemistry - A European Journal, 13 (28), 7957-7964, 2007

5. Minimal F-Actin Cytoskeletal System for Planar Supported Phospholipid BilayersRichard Barfoot, Khizar H. Sheikh, Benjamin Johnson, Stephen Evans.Langmuir, 24(13), 6827-6836, 2008

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