Current Interests

• Protein chemistry, design and physics
• Molecular and membrane biophysics, low- (chiroptical) and high- (NMR) resolution spectroscopy, mass-spectrometry and microscopy
• Biomolecular emphasis on the origin of disease

Biography

Max Ryadnov is NPL's Science Area Leader for Biotechnology.

Max obtained his PhD from Lomonosov Moscow State University and Russian Academy of Sciences in 2000. After a postdoctorate in Sussex, he pursued his independent research in Bristol prior to moving to Leicester as a university lecturer. In 2010, he was appointed at NPL as a Principal Research Scientist to lead a technical research area focused on the analytical and engineering aspects of biomolecular metrology, and from 2011 he has held a joint lectureship in Chemical Physics with the University of Edinburgh.

Max has authored and co-authored in excess of 50 high-impact publications, with his research aiming at revealing the first design principles of polypeptide structure and recognition to enable prescriptive molecular diagnostics and therapy.

Recent Publications

• Amino acids, peptides and proteins
  E. Farkas and M. G. Ryadnov
  Specialist Periodical Reports, RSC Publishing, vol. 37 (2012)
• Membrane mediated regulation in free peptides of HIV-1 gp41: minimal modulation of the hemifusion phase
  E. Cerasoli, J. Ravi, C. R. Gregor, R. Hussain, G. Siligardi, G. J. Martyna, J. Crain and M. G. Ryadnov
  Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 14, pages 1277-1285 (2012)
• Natively unfolded state for engineering nanoscale fibrillar arrays
  M. G. Ryadnov and D. I. Cherny
  Macromol. Biosci. 12, pages 195-201 (2012)
• Arbitrary self-assembly of peptide extracellular microscopic matrices
  A. Bella, S. Ray, M. Shaw and M. G. Ryadnov
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 51, pages 428-431 (2012)

Contact details

E-mail: max.ryadnov@npl.co.uk
Tel: 020 8943 6078