Dr Eva Papadopoulou

Dr Eva Papadopoulou

Post-doctoral researcher (2012-2015)

Eva obtained her undergraduate degree in pharmacy from the National University of Athens. She then moved to the University of Strathclyde, where she obtained an MSc. in Pharmaceutical Analysis, and then Queen’s University Belfast for her PhD. Her PhD thesis, completed in 2011, was entitled “Detection of DNA components and DNA sequences by Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS)”. Following her PhD, Eva continued in Belfast for a short post doc, during which she worked on the sub-picomole detection of diagnostic markers for airway infections using Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). Eva joined the chemistry department of the University of Southampton in 2012 to work on a joint project between Prof. Phil Bartlett and Prof. Tom Brown’s research groups, funded by Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL). The project is on DNA detection and discrimination using SERS via measurement of electrochemically driven dsDNA denaturation.

4 Papers

Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy and Electrochemically Driven Melting to Discriminate Yersinia pestis from Y. pseudotuberculosis Based on Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms within Unpurified Polymerase Chain Reaction Amplicons

E. Papadopoulou, S. A. Goodchild, D. W. Cleary, S. A. Weller, N. Gale, M. R. Stubberfield, T. Brown and P. N. Bartlett. Anal. Chem. 87 (3), 1605-1612, 2015.

Strain discrimination of Yersinia pestis using a SERS-based electrochemically driven melting curve analysis of variable number tandem repeat sequences

E. Papadopoulou, N. Gale, S. A. Goodchild, D. W. Cleary, S. A. Weller, T. Brown and P. N. Bartlett. Chem. Sci. 2015.

The effect of temperature on electrochemically driven denaturation monitored by SERS.

E. Papadopoulou, M. Meneghello, P. Marafini, R. P. Johnson, T. Brown and P. N. Bartlett. Bioelectrochemistry 106, 353-358, 2015.

Specifically horizontally tethered DNA probes on Au surfaces allow labelled and label-free DNA detection using SERS and electrochemically driven melting

E. Papadopoulou, N. Gale, J. F. Thompson, T. A. Fleming, T. Brown and P. N. Bartlett. Chem. Sci. 7 (1), 386-393, 2016.