Dr Ben Kent
Phone +61 2 9717 9837
Email benjamin.kent@ansto.gov.au
Ben Kent is a postdoctoral researcher in the Bragg Institute. His PhD, undertaken at RMIT University, investigated the membrane preservation mechanisms of sugars during desiccation and freezing.
His research interests are in applying small angle scattering techniques to model membrane systems in the context of cryo- and anhydro- biology, with particular interest in the effects of external solutes on the lyotropic phase behaviour of lipid membranes.
Selected Recent Publications
Kent, B., Garvey, C.J., Lenné, T., Porcar, L., Garamus, V.M. and G. Bryant, Measurement of glucose exclusion from the fully hydrated DOPE inverse hexagonal phase, Soft Matter, 2010, 6, 1197-1202
Kent, B., Garvey, C.J., Cookson, D. and G. Bryant, The inverse hexagonal - inverse ribbon - lamellar gel phase transition sequence in low hydration DOPC:DOPE phospholipid mixtures, Chem. Phys. Lipids, 2009, 157(1), 56-60
Lenné, T., Kent, B., Koster, K.L., Garvey, C.J. and G. Bryant, Electron density analysis of the effects of sugars on the structure of lipid bilayers at low hydration - a preliminary study. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Condensed Matter And Materials Meeting, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-646-50975-4.