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Former members of the group

 

Oksana Travkova

postdoc

(March 2011 - March 2013)

Interaction of antimicrobial peptides with model membranes
Natalya

Natalya Bezlyepkina

PhD student

(June 2005 - 2012)

Domain formation in model membranes induced by electrofusion of giant vesicles

 
Rumy Dimova

Matthew Kheir

visiting DAAD student

(May - August 2012)

Interaction of the protein cytochrome c with multicomponent lipid membranes

 

Paul Salipante

visiting PhD student

(September 2010 - September 2011)

Polymersomes in AC fields

(in collaboration with Petia Vlahovska)

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Pavel

Pavlo Shchelokovskyy

postdoc

(May 2008 - May 2011)

 

Effect of the HIV peptide FP23 on the membrane mechanical properties

Software development for automation and carrying out micropipette vesicle aspiration experiments and corresponding data analysis

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Yonggang

Yonggang Liu

postdoc

(June 2009 - August 2011)

Membrane transformations in vesicles with two-phase aqueous solutions send Email to Antje

Philipp Walch

trainee

(May - June 2011)

Electrodeformation of vesicles in the presence of salts send Email to Antje
Karim

Karim Hamdi

PhD student

(June 2009 - June 2011)

Molecular motor transport and regulation role of nucleotides send Email to Antje

Janina

Janina Beeg

PhD student

(September 2002 - September 2007)

postdoc (October 2007 - May 2011)

Cooperative behavior of motor proteins

link to Janina's PhD thesis

 

after Janina's defense

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Ben

Benjamin Klasczyk

PhD student

(January 2008 - February 2011)

Interactions of ions with membranes

(in collaboration with Volker Knecht)

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Ben

Omar Mertins

postdoc

(December 2009 - December 2010)

Chitosan adsorption on liposomes

 

Current address:

University of Sao Paulo, Brasil

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Margarita

Margarita Staykova

postdoc

(January 2007 - October 2009)

Electric-field induced effects on cells and multicomponent membranes

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Yanhong

Yanhong Li

PhD student, postdoc

(March 2006 - February 2010)

Phase separation in giant vesicles send Email to Antje
Sanat

Sanat Karmakar

postdoc

(August 2008 - November 2009)

Interaction of NK2 peptides with model membranes send Email to Antje
Thomas

Thomas Portet

visiting PhD student

(April - June 2009)

Membrane electroporation and pore lifetimes send Email to Antje
Tetsuya

Tetsuya Yamamoto

postdoc

(May 2008 - May 2009)

Contribution of electrostatic forces to the interactions between domains in membranes

(in collaboration with R. Lipowsky)

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Said

Said Aranda Espinoza

PhD student

(January 2004 - February 2009)

Electrical effects on model lipid membranes: electrodeformation, electroporation and electrofusion send Email to Said
Lei

Lei Xu

visiting student

(July - September 2008)

Implementation of a QPD in an optical trapping system

(from the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Lene Oddershede's group)

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Marie

Marie Domange

visiting student

(June - September 2008)

PhD student from the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen (Lene Oddershede's group) on a student exchange visit, part of Marie Curie funded network on biomimetic systems send Email to Antje
Andrew

Andrew Richardson

visiting student

(June - August 2008)

PhD student from the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen (Lene Oddershede's group) on a student exchange visit, part of Marie Curie funded network on biomimetic systems send Email to Antje
Peng

Peng Yang

postdoc

(October 2006 -September 2007)

Giant vesicles as microreactors

 

Current address:

Shaanxi Normal University
199 Chang An South Road, Xi An
China 710062

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Petia

Petia Vlahovska

visiting scientist

(September 2005 - September 2006)

Adhesion of vesicles to chemically modified surfaces

 

Current address:

Brown University

Providence, RI

US

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Pavel

Pavel Kraikivski

'part time' postdoc in 2005-2006

 

Single versus double beam optical trapping: challenges and solution send Email to Antje

Chris

before the defense

Christopher Haluska

PhD student

(started January 2002

defended Jan. 2005)

 

postdoc

(from February 2005 till September 2005)

Adhesion and fusion of model membranes

financed by DFG (project number DI878/1-1, 1-2)

New: link to Chris' PhD thesis

 

Current address:

Institut Charles Sadron

CNRS - UPR 22
6, rue Boussingault
67083 Strasbourg Cedex
FRANCE

after the defense

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Antje

Antje Reinecke

Technician

(with us between March 2000 and March 2005)

Current address: Biomaterials department of MPI

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Conny

Cornelia Sinn

PhD student

(started March 2002; defended Dec. 2004)

in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Markus Antonietti

Water structure, ion condensation on polymers and membranes

New: link to Conny's PhD thesis

 

Current address:

European patent office

The Hague

The Netherlands

after the defense

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Vesko

before the defense

Vesselin Nikolov

PhD student

(started 2001

defended June 2004)

Membranes grafted with long polymers

New: link to Vesko's PhD thesis

 

Current address:

Dr. Vesselin Nikolov
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

after the defense

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Karin

Karin Riske

Postdoc

(with us between May 2003 and May 2004)

Electro- deformation, poration and fusion of giant vesicles

 

Current address:

Instituto de Física da Universidade de São Paulo

São Paulo CEP 05508-090

Brazil

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Thomas

Thomas Franke

PhD student

(with us between August 2003 and April 2004)

Adhesion of model membranes to structured surfaces

financed by DFG (project number LI431/2-3)

 

Current address:

Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization

Bunsenstraße 10

37073 Göttingen

after the defense: coronation by Dr. Karin

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Jeremy

Jeremy Pencer

Postdoc

Domains on membranes

Effects of membrane curvature and composition on lipid raft formation

 

Current address:

NRC - Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences
Chalk River Labs
Bldg 459, Stn 18
Chalk River, ON
K0J 1J0

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Xinzhao

Xinzhao Zhang

PhD student

Adhesion of model membranes to structured surfaces

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Eva

Eva Codina

Technician

 

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Last update: May 23, 2013