Woodward Group

19/09/2022

Tomorrow, I will give a Keynote lecture on quantum biology at the Daesung Haiganag Microbes Forum in Seoul, Korea. The event will be streamed live on YouTube in both English and Korean. See more details in the advert. This will be targetted at quite a general audience and my title will be 'Revealing the potential of quantum mechanics hiding in biology'

2022 대성해강미생물포럼

19/09/2022

Tomorrow, Jonny will give a Keynote lecture on quantum biology at the Daesung Haiganag Microbes Forum in Seoul, Korea. The event will be streamed live on YouTube in both English and Korean. See more details in the advert. This will be targetted at quite a general audience and my title will be 'Revealing the potential of quantum mechanics hiding in biology'

2022 대성해강미생물포럼

30/03/2022

Tomorrow, Jonny will give a talk as part of the Big Quantum Bio series, entitled, “Through a glass brightly: radical pairs under the microscope.” This will be a research level talk targeted to a mixed audience from biologists to quantum physicists. Looking forward to some stimulating discussion.

26/11/2021

Thursday, November 25 at 10:00pm EST with Catarina Cunha, Cecile Tamura, Sierra, Jonathan Woodward. Magnets dim natural glow of human cells, may shed light on how animals migrate First direct observation of magnetic field affecting autofluorescence of flavins in living cells Date: January 5, 2021 So...

26/05/2021

Our January PNAS paper has been highlighted in the latest issue of Microscopy Today.

Do Bird Migration and Childhood Leukemia Have Something in Common? - Volume 29 Issue 3

11/03/2021

Prof. Woodward talks about the group's recent work on the 'Finding Genius' podcast.

For the first time, chemistry can be observed in real-time. Turn a magnetic field off, watch cellular fluorescence dim; turn the magnetic field back on, and watch the cellular fluorescence get brighter. Tune in to learn more from the lead researcher, including: A likely explanation for how some anim...

20/01/2021

最近の研究は東京大学の研究ページに掲載されています。

東京大学大学院総合文化研究科の池谷皐大学院生とジョナサン・ウッドワード教授（Jonathan Woodward）らの研究グループは、細胞内に天然に存在するフラビン分子の磁気感受性を、生きた細胞内でリアルタイムの観測に成功し....

12/01/2021

KASC 2020
This year, the Woodward group were the hosts and organisers of the 6th Kanto Area Spin Chemistry meeting (KASC2020). We had a wonderful lecture from Clarice D’Aiello (https://samueli.ucla.edu/people/clarice-d-aiello/) and a full schedule of excellent presentations from students and staff from across Japan. Special thanks go to Motoko Asano for helping arrange the afterparty on Remo. Xu gave a great lecture on his recent work entitled, ‘Fluorescent, magnetosensitive polymers formed by photoexcitation of indole and derivatives.’

12/01/2021

SEST 2020
This year saw SEST (http://sest2020.imr.tohoku.ac.jp/index.html) taking place online between the 13th and 15th November. Xu delivered a poster (although due to the online nature, it was far more like a lecture) entitled, ‘Investigation of magnetic field effects on photopolymerisation reactions of flavins and tryptophan by fluorescence microscopy.’ Jonny gave a lecture entitled, ‘Radical Pair Based Magnetic Field Sensitivity Of Native Cell Autofluorescence.’ The after party was held using a piece of software called Remo, which was quite fascinating and allowed partcipants to visit virtual tables and chat with one another – very enjoyable.

12/01/2021

Welcoming new members (carefully)!
At the beginning of the current semester, two new member joined the group. Tito Akindele, who is an ALESS professor at UTokyo and will now start collaborating with the group regularly. Onkar Gulati is a PEAK environmental sciences student with a flair for theoretical and experimental science along with mathematics. Due to the covid-19 situation, it has been impossible to welcome them in any formal way, but due to a coincidence of all members needing to be on campus, we got together for a very careful curry! Welcome indeed Tito and Onkar – it is great to have you in the group!

12/01/2021

S3IC 2020
The Single-molecule Sensors and nanoSystems International Conference (https://premc.org/conferences/s3ic-single-molecule-sensors-nanosystems/)took place online from November 9th to 11th. This was the first time Jonny had attended this conference and spoke in a session chaired by Martin Plenio. His lecture was entitled, ‘Single molecule spectroscopy of spin correlated radical pairs.’ It was an interesting and very varied meeting and he received some excellent questions about the group’s recent work.

S3IC 2020 will bring together researchers in the rapidly advancing field of Single Molecule Sensors and nanoSystems on November 9-11, 2020 in Barcelona.

06/01/2021

Some of our recent work has just been published and is featured on the University's research page!

Statistical analysis of the light intensity in videos data revealed that the cell’s fluorescence dimmed by about 3.5% each time the magnetic field swept over the cells. © Ikeya and Woodward, CC BY, originally published in PNAS DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2018043118