Professor Rod Smallwood (BSc MSc PhD FREng HonFRCP FIEE FInstP FIPEM)

Department of Computer Science
Regent Court
211 Portobello Street
Sheffield
S1 4DP

Telephone: 0114 222 1840
Email: r.smallwood@shef.ac.uk

Current Position

Professor of Computational Systems Biology

Career History

  • 2003 Professor of Computational Systems Biology, University of Sheffield
  • 1995 Professor of Medical Engineering, University of Sheffield
  • 1970-1995 NHS posts

Research

My major current research interest is in computational modelling of the structure and function that is an emergent property of the interaction of cells, with a particular interest in epithelial tissues. Much more on past and present research can be found on my web pages at http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~rod

Principal Funding Sources

  • EPSRC
  • BBSRC

Members of Research Group

  • Professor Mike Holcombe
  • Dr Richard Clayton
  • Dr Nick Monk
  • Dr Dawn Walker
  • Dr Alan Waterworth
  • Dr Jiujiang Zhu
  • Dr Phil McMinn
  • Simon Coakley
  • Mark Pogson

Representative Publications

Smallwood R, Metherall P, Hose D, Delves M, Pollock H, Hammiche A, Hodges C, Mathot V and Willcocks P (2002) Tomographic imaging and scanning thermal microscopy: thermal impedance tomography. Thermochimica Acta 385 19-32

Smallwood R H, Keshtkar A, Wilkinson B A, Lee J A and Hamdy F C (2002) Electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) in the urinary bladder: the effect of inflammation and edema on identification of malignancy. IEEE Trans Medical Imaging 21 708-710

Walker D C, Southgate J S, Hill G, Holcombe M, Hose D R, Wood S M, MacNeil S and Smallwood R H (2004) The Epitheliome: modelling the social behaviour of cells. BioSystems 76 89-100

Walker D C, Hill G, Wood S M, Smallwood R H and Southgate J (2004) Agent-based computational modelling of wounded epithelial cell monolayers. IEEE Trans Nanobioscience 3 153-163

Smallwood R H, Holcombe W M L and Walker D C (2004) Development and validation of computational models of cellular interaction. Journal of Molecular Histology 35:659-665

Ganguli A, Persson L, Palmer I R, Evans I, Yang L, Smallwood R, Black R, Qwarnstrom E E (2005) Distinct NF-B Regulation by Shear Stress Through Ras Dependent IBOscillations - Real time Analysis of Flow Mediated Activation in Live Cells Circ Res 96:626-634

Walker D C, Smallwood R H, Keshtkar A, Wilkinson B A, Hamdy F C and Lee J A (2005) Modelling the electrical properties of bladder tissue – quantifying impedance changes due to inflammation and oedema. Physiological Measurement 26:251-268