Through our interdisciplinary approach we offer new insights into fundamental systems. Examples include our new approaches to studying the behaviour and movement of membranes [Staykova, M. et al. (2018), Nanoscale DOI: 10.1039/C8NR03399D; Sanderson, J.M. et al. (2020) Science Advances DOI:10.1126/sciadv.aaz8598, and the unravelling of the structure and function of key proteins involved in tuberculosis [Blower, T.R. et al. (2020) Science Advances DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abb6651].