Welcome to the Research Group of Professor Mike Hannon

Lucia Cardo

Contact

Room         IBR 129/ Ha308

Phone        + 44 121 414 58678 / 8862

Email         l.cardo@bham.ac.uk
Status Postdoctoral fellow (British Heart Foundation, New Horizons grant)
Research interests New strategies for probe delivery. Imaging of platelets, megakaryocytes and neuthrophils.
Joined group April 2012

Education and previous positions

2010-2012
Postdoc fellow
Inorganic Chemistry Institute
University of Zurich (Switzerland)
2005-2009
PhD
Chemistry
University of Birmingham (UK)
2003-2005
Research assistant
Chemistry
Universitá di Napoli Federico II (Italy)
2003
Masters
Chemistry
Universitá di Napoli Federico II (Italy)

Publications and conferences

  1. L. Cardo, K.S. Karunatilaka, D. Rueda and R.K.O. Sigel. Single Molecule FRET Characterization of Large Ribozymes Folding. Methods in Molecular Biology: Ribozymes (Chapter 15). Springer, 2012.
  2. L. Cardo, V. Sadovnikova, S. Phongtongpasuk, N.J. Hodges and M.J. Hannon. Arginine conjugates of metallo-supramolecular cylinders prescribe helicity and enhance DNA junction binding and cellular activity. Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 6575-6577.
  3. L. Cardo and M.J. Hannon. Design and DNA-binding of metallo-supramolecular cylinders conjugated to peptides. Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2009, 362, 784-792