Research Interests

• Self-assembly and self-organisation in biological matter (`patchy particles’).
• Kinetics of bio-fiber polymerization (actin, microtubules, hemoglobin).
• Semiflexible bio-polymer networks and their structural, elastic and rheological properties (actin cytoskeletons, fibrin blood clots).
• Bio-adhesion, ligands and receptors (cancer).
• Cell motility.

Figures

	A fluorescence image of a cytoskeletal network of actin filaments (shown in green) within an eukaryotic cell
	An image of an enclosed hemoglobin fiber deforming a red blood cell into a typical spicule formation.
	The formation of spicules, or filopodia, in neuronal growth cones.

Publications

Journal papers (Refereed)

• D.R. Daniels, M.S. Turner, Diffusion on Membrane Tubes - a highly discriminatory test of the Saffman-Delbruck theory, Accepted for publication in Langmuir, (2007).
• D.R. Daniels, D. Marenduzzo, M.S. Turner, Stall, Spiculate, or Run Away: The Fate of Fibers Growing towards Fluctuating Membranes, Physical Review Letters 97 (2006) 098101.
• D.R. Daniels, J.C. Wang, R.W. Briehl, M.S. Turner, Deforming Biological Membranes : How the Cytoskeleton Affects  A Polymerising Fiber, Journal of Chemical Physics 124 (2006) 024903.
• D.R. Daniels, M.S. Turner, Spicules and the effect of rigid rods on enclosing membrane tubes, Physical Review Letters 95 (2005) 238101.
• D.R. Daniels, Statistical Mechanics of Self-Avoiding Tethered Membranes in the Dense  Phase Using  Collective Coordinates, Physica A 352 (2005) p 436 - 446.
• D.R. Daniels, M.S. Turner, Semiflexible Rod in a Nematic Environment with Applications to Biological Polymers, Macromolecules 38 (2005) p 182 - 187.
• D.R. Daniels, M.S. Turner, The Force Generated by Biological Membranes on a Polymer Rod and its Response : Statics and Dynamics, The Journal of Chemical Physics 121 (2004) p 7401 - 7407.
• D.R. Daniels, A.M. Donald, Soft Material Characterisation of the Lamellar Properties of Starch, Smectic Side-Chain Liquid-Crystalline Polymeric Approach, Macromolecules  37 (2004) p 1312 - 1318.
• D.R. Daniels, A.M. Donald, An Improved Model for Analysing the SAXS of Starch Granules, Biopolymers 69 (2003) p 165 - 175.
• D.M. Hatters, C.A. MacRaild, D.R. Daniels, W. Gosal, J.A.Jones, J.J. Davis, C.E. MacPhee, G.J. Howlett, C.M. Dobson, The Circularization of Amyloid Fibrils Formed by Apolipoprotein C-II, Biophysical Journal 85 (2003) p 3979 - 3990.
• M. Toth, D.R. Daniels, B.L. Thiel, A.M.Donald, Quantification of Electron-Ion Recombination in an Electron-Beam-Irradiated Gas Capacitor, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 35 (2002) p 1796 - 1804.
• B.J. Crosby, M. Magnus, W. de Groot, D.R. Daniels, T.C.B. Mcleish, Characterisation of Long Chain Branching : Dilution Rheology of Industrial Polyethylenes, Journal of Rheology 46 (2002) p 401 - 426.
• D.R. Daniels, T.C.B. Mcleish, B.J.Crosby, R.N. Young, C.M. Fernyhough, Molecular Rheology of Comb Polymer Melts. 1. Linear Viscoelastic Response, Macromolecules 34 (2001) p 7025 - 7033.    
• D.R. Daniels, T.C.B. Mcleish, R. Kant, B.J. Crosby, R.N. Young, A.  Pryke, J. Allgaier, D.J. Groves, R.J. Hawkins, Linear Rheology of Diluted Linear, Star and Model Long Chain Branched  Polymer Melts., Rheologica Acta 40 (2001) p 403 - 415.
• D.R. Daniels, An Alternative Approach to Quantized Fields in Rindler Space, Physics Letters B408 (1997) p 52 - 58.
• D.R. Daniels and G.M. Shore, `Faster than light’ Photons and Rotating Black Holes, Physics Letters B367 (1996) p 75-83.
• D.R. Daniels and G.M. Shore, `Faster than light’ Photons and Charged Black Holes, Nuclear Physics B425 (1994) p 634-650.

Conference Papers (Not Refereed)

• D.R. Daniels, B.J. Crosby, T.C.B. Mcleish, Linear and Non-linear Rheology of Comb Shaped Polymers, Published in conference proceedings `Rheology 2000’, Cambridge.

Other Papers

• D.R. Daniels, M.S. Turner, Force versus Extension Characteristics of a Semifexible Polymer inside a Membrane Tube including the Effects of Fluctuations, in preparation (2007).
• D.R. Daniels, M.S. Turner, The Role of Osmotic Pressure in the Polymerisation Dynamics of Membrane.Enclosed Biological Fibers, in preparation (2007).