Nicola Everitt is Associate Professor of Materials Engineering at the University of Nottingham and Director of the Engineering Domain of the CPIB virtual root project.
Her fields of expertise lie in structure/property relationships for high performance materials. Her main focus is on mechanical property evaluation of small samples, from biological tissue such a plant roots and germinating seeds, to biomedical materials such as degradable polymer scaffolds and bone, to thin hard films and stiff fibres. She has a broad knowledge of materials analysis techniques including optical and electron microscopy and many types of mechanical testing. She has particular interest and expertise in nano-indentation testing, and dynamic materials analysis i.e. the behaviour of materials at different rates of loading or strain at different temperatures.
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Published Work
- MR Nelson, LR Band, RJ Dyson, T Lessinnes, D. M. Wells, C Yang, NM Everitt, OE Jensen, ZA Wilson (2012) A biomechanical model of anther opening reveals the roles of dehydration and secondary thickening. New Phytologist 196: 1030–1037
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- Anwesha N Fernandes, Xinyong Chen, Colin A Scotchford , James Walker , Darren M Wells, Clive J Roberts, Nicola M Everitt (2012) Mechanical properties of epidermal cells of whole living roots of Arabidopsis thaliana: An atomic force microscopy study. Physical Review E 85, 021916
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- Wright EF, Wells DM, French AP, Howells C, Everitt NM (2009) A low-cost automated focusing system for time-lapse microscopy. Measurement Science & Technology 20
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Presented Work
- Using engineering techniques to investigate plant biology questions. At: Annual Plant Biology Symposium at the University of Massachusetts Amherst 2011 Nicola Everitt, Darren Wells, Andy French
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- The mechanics of cell expansion in the root elongation zone. At: Modelling at multiple scales in biology, Oxford 2010 RJ Dyson, T Holman, DM Wells, M Wilson, MJ Bennett, NM Everitt, OE Jensen
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- Characterising the mechanical properties of elongating root cells. At: 20th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research - Edinburgh, UK 2009 Wells DM, Dyson RJ, Qian M, Bennett MJ, Hodgman TC, Jensen OE, Everitt NM
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- High throughput quantification of root growth. At: 20th International Conference for Arabidopsis Research. Edinburgh 2009 Andrew French, Darren M. Wells, Susana Ubeda-Tomás, Tara J. Holman, Nicola M. Everitt, Malcolm J. Bennett, Tony Pridmore
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- A fibre-reinforced fluid model of anisotropic plant cell growth. At: BBSRC Systems Biology Grantholder Workshop - University of Nottingham, UK 2008 Dyson RJ, Wells DM, Qian M, Becker A, Everitt NM, Jensen OE, King JR, Jones A, Tansley G
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- A fibre-reinforced fluid model of anisotropic plant cell growth. At: MMBNOTT/MRM Summer Workshop in Mathematical Medicine and Biology - University of Nottingham, UK 2008 Dyson RJ, Wells DM, Qian M, Becker A, Everitt NM, Jensen OE, King JR, Jones A, Tansley G
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- Systems biology approaches to root growth: visualisation and mathematical modelling. At: Third Conference on the Biosynthesis of Plant Cell Walls - Asilomar, CA 2008 Wells DM, Dyson RJ, Qian M, Wilson MH, Bennett MJ, Everitt NM, Jensen OE, Jones A, Tansley GD
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