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Professor Jamie Hobbs

Imagine co-ordinator and Professor of Physics

Department: Physics & Astronomy

Contact: jamie.hobbs@sheffield.ac.uk

Phone: +44 (0)114 222 4532
My research interests are in three main areas: biological physics, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) instrument development, and soft matter physics.

Research interests 
  • Scanning probe microscopy
  • Biological physics
  • Soft matter physics 
Key publications
  • Wheeler R, Turner RD, Bailey RG, Salamaga B, Mesnage S, Mohamad SA, Hayhurst EJ, Horsburgh M, Hobbs JK, Foster SJ (2015) Bacterial Cell Enlargement Requires Control of Cell Wall Stiffness Mediated by Peptidoglycan Hydrolases.MBio. 6(4):e00660
  • Kasprzewska A, Carter R, Swarup R, Bennett M, Monk N, Hobbs JK, Fleming A. (2015) Auxin influx importers modulate serration along the leaf margin. Plant J. 83(4):705-18.
  • Chapman P, Ducker RE, Hurley CR, Hobbs JK, Leggett GJ (2015) Fabrication of Two-Component, Brush-on-Brush Topographical Microstructures by Combination of Atom-Transfer Radical Polymerization with Polymer End-Functionalization and Photopatterning. Langmuir;31(21):5935-44.
  • Bailey RG, Turner RD, Mullin N, Clarke N, Foster SJ, Hobbs JK (2014) The interplay between cell wall mechanical properties and the cell cycle in Staphylococcus aureus. Biophys J. 107(11):2538-45.
  • Turner RD, Hurd AF, Cadby A, Hobbs JK, Foster SJ (2013) Cell wall elongation mode in Gram-negative bacteria is determined by peptidoglycan architecture. Nat Commun. 4:1496.
  • Mullin N, Hobbs JK (2011) Direct imaging of polyethylene films at single-chain resolution with torsional tapping atomic force microscopy. Phys Rev Lett. 107(19):197801.
  • Kailas L, Terry C, Abbott N, Taylor R, Mullin N, Tzokov SB, Todd SJ, Wallace BA, Hobbs JK, Moir A, Bullough PA (2011) Surface architecture of endospores of the Bacillus cereus/anthracis/thuringiensis family at the subnanometer scale. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108(38):16014-9.
  • ul Haq E, Liu Z, Zhang Y, Ahmad SA, Wong LS, Armes SP, Hobbs JK, Leggett GJ, Micklefield J, Roberts CJ, Weaver JM (2010) Parallel scanning near-field photolithography: the snomipede. Nano Lett. 10(11):4375-80.

Imagine team

Prof Simon Foster
Prof Per Bullough
Dr Ashley Cadby
Dr Ling Chin Hwang
Dr Egbert Hoiczyk
Dr William Durham
Dr Buddhapriya Chakrabarti
Dr Christa Walther
Dr Nic Mullin