Peter Swain

Address
- Street
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School of Biological Sciences
- City
- Mayfield Road
- Post code
- EH9 3BF
Background
After his PhD, Peter Swain worked at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, the Center for Studies in Physics and Biology at the Rockefeller University, and the Department of Physiology at McGill University before returning to the UK.
Qualifications
PhD Mathematics, Imperial College London
Research summary
The Swain laboratory studies the systems biology of cellular decision-making, particularly nutrient- and stress-sensing in budding yeast.
Affiliated research centres
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Analysing and meta-analysing time-series data of microbial growth and gene expression from plate readers
(12 pages)
In:
PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010138
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Multiple nutrient transporters enable cells to mitigate a rate-affinity tradeoff
(15 pages)
In:
PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 18
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010060
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Roadmap on biology in time varying environments
(33 pages)
In:
IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, vol. 18, pp. 1-33
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1478-3975/abde8d
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Resolving fluorescent species by their brightness and diffusion using correlated photon-counting histograms
In:
PLoS ONE, vol. 14
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226063
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Estimating numbers of intracellular molecules through analysing fluctuations in photobleaching
In:
Scientific Reports, vol. 9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50921-7
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)