Dmitry Malyshev

Spores, lasers and microwaves

I am a biophysics researcher from the UK, now working in Umeå University, department of Physics. I study the properties of bacteria spores and other pathogens, using biophysical tools. These pathogens cause great financial loss in developed countries, in cleaning up hospitals, and making food safe to eat. In developing countries, infection outbreaks cost lives and remain a cause of child mortality.

Understanding how to clean up, decontaminate and is very important. Using lasers, I can select, grab and hold a single bacterium, move and manipulate it, as if holding it in a tiny tweezer. This technique is called optical tweezers.

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Umeå

Umeå universitet

Fysik

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