{"id":14,"date":"2014-05-12T18:26:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T18:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbc.manchester.ac.uk\/barrangroup\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2018-10-15T12:45:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T12:45:55","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mbc.manchester.ac.uk\/barrangroup\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Perdita Barran&#8217;s Research Group<\/h1>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-519\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mbc.manchester.ac.uk\/barrangroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/barran_2017_group.jpeg?resize=750%2C361&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mbc.manchester.ac.uk\/barrangroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/barran_2017_group.jpeg?resize=1024%2C493&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mbc.manchester.ac.uk\/barrangroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/barran_2017_group.jpeg?resize=399%2C192&amp;ssl=1 399w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mbc.manchester.ac.uk\/barrangroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/barran_2017_group.jpeg?resize=300%2C144&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mbc.manchester.ac.uk\/barrangroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/barran_2017_group.jpeg?resize=768%2C370&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mbc.manchester.ac.uk\/barrangroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/barran_2017_group.jpeg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mbc.manchester.ac.uk\/barrangroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/barran_2017_group.jpeg?w=2250&amp;ssl=1 2250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<p>We develop mass spectrometry based methods and instruments to allow us to look at conformation, conformational change and aggregation. Methods that allow us to preserve non-colvalent protein complexes are also applied to inorganic supramolecular biomimetic systems. We also generate IM-MS data from standard small molecules and proteins that can be used to calibrate TW IM-MS instrumentation.<\/p>\n<p>Our principal areas of research interest are in understanding pre-fibrillar aggregation, intrinsically disordered proteins and how to tame disorder, probing the stability of protein complexes and of model peptide systems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See our <a title=\"Contact us\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbc.manchester.ac.uk\/barrangroup\/about-us\/contact\/\">contacts page<\/a> to get in touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perdita Barran&#8217;s Research Group We develop mass spectrometry based methods and instruments to allow us to look at conformation, conformational change and aggregation. Methods that allow us to preserve non-colvalent protein complexes are also applied to inorganic supramolecular biomimetic systems. We also generate IM-MS data from standard small molecules and proteins that can be used &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mbc.manchester.ac.uk\/barrangroup\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","nodate","item-wrap"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4Adwh-e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbc.manchester.ac.uk\/barrangroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbc.manchester.ac.uk\/barrangroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbc.manchester.ac.uk\/barrangroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbc.manchester.ac.uk\/barrangroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbc.manchester.ac.uk\/barrangroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbc.manchester.ac.uk\/barrangroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbc.manchester.ac.uk\/barrangroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbc.manchester.ac.uk\/barrangroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}