Dr Amelie Heuer-Jungemann

Dr Amelie Heuer-Jungemann

Post-doctoral researcher (2015-2016)

Amelie obtained her undergraduate degree in Chemistry with Biochemistry (1st class MChem), with the William H Perkin Prize for Organic Chemistry, from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (2011). During her final year, she worked with Nicola Howarth on the development of a novel route towards N(2)-carbamate-guanyl-acetic acid derivatives as HIV-1 non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors. Amelie’s PhD project was jointly supervised by Tom Brown and Antonios Kanaras and involved the programmed assembly of gold nanoparticles-DNA assemblies using click chemistry. Her postdoctoral research was funded by the Leverhulme Trust and focuses on diagnostic and therapeutic applications of nucleic acid-nanoparticle conjugates. She is now a post-doc at Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), Munich.

5 Papers

Copper-free click chemistry as an emerging tool for the programmed ligation of DNA-functionalised gold nanoparticles

A. Heuer-Jungemann, R. Kirkwood, A. H. El-Sagheer, T. Brown and A. G. Kanaras. Nanoscale 2013.

Gold nanoparticles and fluorescently-labelled DNA as a platform for biological sensing

A. Heuer-Jungemann, P. K. Harimech, T. Brown and A. G. Kanaras. Nanoscale 5, 9503-9510, 2013.

Programming the assembly of gold nanoparticles on graphene oxide sheets using DNA

A. Heuer-Jungemann, L. Kiessling, E. Stratakis, E. Kymakis, A. H. El-Sagheer, T. Brown and A. G. Kanaras. J. Mater. Chem. C 3, 9379-9384, 2015.

Selective killing of cells triggered by their mRNA signature in the presence of smart nanoparticles

A. Heuer-Jungemann, A. H. El-Sagheer, P. M. Lackie, T. Brown and A. G. Kanaras. Nanoscale 8, 16857-16861, 2016.

Sensing of Vimentin mRNA in 2D and 3D Models of Wounded Skin Using DNA-Coated Gold Nanoparticles

P. Vilela, A. Heuer-Jungemann, A. H. El-Sagheer, T. Brown, O. L. Muskens, N. R. Smyth and A. G. Kanaras. Small 2018.