DR. Chiththaka Chaturanga Devapriya Bandara Imihami Mudiyanselage
ProVIS - Centre for Chemical Microscopy
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ
I am an early career researcher with a strong interest in microscopy at the nanoscale and materials science with a background in Chemistry and Molecular biology. I am particularly interested in bactericidal surfaces, and understanding the bactericidal mechanism shown by nanopillared structures found on the wing surface of dragonflies and cicadas. I have experience in bacteria culture, working with cell lines, resin embedding, fluorescence microscopy, electron and ion beam imaging, TEM, and AFM. In my current projects at UFZ, I am working on the identification of bacteria in the rhizosphere, and using deep learning methods for image segmentation, and method development to identify corona virus in aerosols.
Publications
Microbial Identification, High-Resolution Microscopy and Spectrometry of the Rhizosphere in Its Native Spatial Context
Bandara C, Schmidt M, Davoudpour Y, Stryhanyuk H, Richnow H, Musat N - Frontiers in Plant Science - 2021
Resolving Bio–Nano Interactions of E. coli Bacteria–Dragonfly Wing Interface with Helium Ion and 3D-Structured Illumination Microscopy to Understand Bacterial Death on Nanotopography
Bandara C, Ballerin G, Leppänen M, Tesfamichael T, Ostrikov K, Whitchurch C - ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering - 2020
Bactericidal Effects of Natural Nanotopography of Dragonfly Wing on Escherichia coli
Bandara C, Singh S, Afara I, Wolff A, Tesfamichael T, Ostrikov K, Oloyede A - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces - 2017
