Media
Our media archive provides a leading insights on membrane science in an accessible way.
Below you can find our series of Aston Originals Podcasts, media pack for press and other media we have participated in. Our academics are passionate about all things membrane and love to engage with the media. For media enquiries please reach out to Paul Knobbs or the University Press Office.
Genetically engineering bacteria into self-regulating ‘rice cookers’ for cell membrane proteins
In the latest episode of the Aston Originals podcast What is a membrane?, Dr Doug Browning explains to host Dr Matt Derry how he is genetically engineering bacteria to enhance membrane protein production.
Harmless strains of Escherichia coli bacteria can be engineered to produce all kinds of membrane proteins, human and animal.
If scientists can find a way to produce more of these proteins, they will be able to better design and test new drugs for diseases that affect membrane proteins, such as cystic fibrosis, and develop new vaccines.
Making safer, greener device batteries
Dr Matt Derry, a polymer chemist and founding member of Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME), has spoken to AIME co-director Professor Roslyn Bill about his groundbreaking battery research in the latest episode of What is a membrane?
His research aims to make batteries safer, greener and more recyclable, with the potential to impact portable electronics like mobile phones, electric vehicles and energy storage systems worldwide.
SPARKing up... EVolution Therapeutics
Professor Andrew Devitt and Dr James Gavin from Aston University spin-out EVolution Therapeutics (EVo) are the special guests on the new episode of Aston Originals podcast SPARKing up the Midlands.
EVo is developing unique treatments for non-healing wounds, caused by chronic inflammation, including diabetic foot ulcers. The treatments are based on extracellular vesicles (EVs), which are small, membrane-enclosed fragments which are released by dying cells to trigger the body’s natural repair systems.
AIME: Membrane separation and chocolate boxes
In the latest Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME) podcast, three researchers discuss the international BIOmimetic selective extraction MEMbranes (BIOMEM) project and how it will feed into AIME’s work.
New research institute for Aston University
The founding members of Aston University’s newest research institute have recorded a new podcast to introduce themselves, their research and the plans for Aston Institute of Membrane Excellence (AIME).
In this episode of Aston Originals, Professor Roslyn Bill and Professor Paul Topham, AIME’s co-directors, joined Dr Matt Derry and Dr Alan Goddard to explain how the interdisciplinary team formed and how they will work together.
AIME: Brains, dishwashers and dementia
In this latest episode of Aston Originals, Professor Roslyn Bill, co-founder of Aston Institute for Membrane Excellence (AIME), joins Dr Matt Derry to discuss her research into brain cell membranes and more.
Secrets of Science
Professor Roslyn Bill explains how the research her and her colleagues at Aston are doing can be used to help save lives after brain injury.