Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes

by Ales Iglic?

Overview

Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes volumes cover a broad range of topics, including main arrangements of the reconstituted system, namely planar lipid bilayers as well as spherical liposomes. The invited authors present the latest results of their own research groups in this exciting multidisciplinary field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780123877215
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	05/25/2011
Series:	Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes , #13
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Aleš Iglic received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics and M.Sc. degree in biophysics from the Department of Physics, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, all from the University of Ljubljana. He is a Full Professor and the Head of Laboratory of Biophysics of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at University of Ljubljana. His main research interests are in electrostatics, mechanics and statistical physics of lipid nanostructures and biological membranes. He is devoted to higher education, basic research in biophysics and close contacts to clinical practice. Prof. Iglic was visiting scientist and professor at Åbo Academy University in Turku (Finland), Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (Germany) and Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic). He established collaborations with researchers from different universities across the Europe, USA and India and was supervisor of many M.Sc., Ph.D. and postdoctoral students from Slovenia, Czech Republic, Poland, Iran, Bulgaria, Germany, India and Israel. Since 2009 is the editor of Elsevier book series »Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes« (APLBL).

Michael Rappolt has been appointed as Professor of Lipid Biophysics (School of Food Science and Nutrition) in April 2013. He received his MSc and PhD in physics from the University of Hamburg and achieved his habilitation at the University of Ljubljana in the Faculty of Health Sciences. He was Senior Researcher at the Synchrotron Trieste Outstation (Italy), Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research (Austrian Academy of Sciences), before becoming Assistant Professor at Graz University of Technology. Professor Michael Rappolt is a leading authority on investigating the structure and dynamics of lipid membranes using small-angle X-ray scattering. His recent research activities have concentrated on the study of drug/membrane interactions with potential applications to drug delivery and food. Further research topics concentrate on characterising crystallization processes in food, the investigation of colloid interfaces and the determination of particle structures on the nanoscale. He also seeks to transfer standard measurement techniques applied in food research – such as mechanic (sound and shear) and thermodynamic sample manipulations to synchrotron sites – to understand food on a smaller (nanometre) and faster (microsecond) scale.

Chandrashekhar V. Kulkarni received his PhD in Chemical Biology from University of London for which he was in receipt of a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher Fellowship at Imperial College London (2005-2008). Earlier he completed his BSc (1999) and MSc (2001) in Chemistry from Shivaji University Kolhapur, India and started his research career at the National Chemical Laboratory Pune, India. He had a few postdoc stints at University of Graz-Austria, University of Bayreuth-Germany and University of Cambridge-UK during which he worked on a wide range of projects. In March 2013 Dr Kulkarni started ‘Lipid Nanostructures Group’ focussing on highly interdisciplinary and cutting-edge projects. Some of his research interests include complex biomembranes and biomolecule interactions, nanostructured lipid particles as carrier systems, and novel nano-bio-applications of lipid nanostructures. Dr Kulkarni joined the editorial board of APLBL in early 2013 and later as an editor of this book series.

Table of Contents

1. Charged Particles can Mediate Attraction Between Equally Charged Membranes - Theoretical Study

Sarka Perutkova

2. Cationic Liposomes as Model Non-Viral Vectors for Pulmonary Delivery of DNA

Abdelbary Elhissi, Israr Ul Hassan, Antigoni Papapanou, Nimrah Zeb and Kevin M.G. Taylor

3. Giant Unilamellar Vesicles and Suspended Nanobilayers as Model Systems for Biophysical Research

Oliver J. Pambos and Ulrich F. Keyser

4. Hydrophobically Modified Chitosan: Solution Properties by Rheology and Light Scattering

Aarti S. Shedge and Manohar V. Badiger

5. Structural Transitions in Lipid Membranes: Mechanism for Cell-Penetrating Peptides

Abhijit Mishra

6. Biomimetic Liposome Model Systems to Study Cell Shape Control by the Cytoskeleton

Feng-Ching Tsai, Sophie Roth, Marileen Dogterom and Gijsje Hendrika Koenderink

7. Role of Blood Sampling in Assessment of Concentration of Extracellular Nanovesicles in Isolates from Peripheral BloodRoman Stukelj, Ines Hribar Ignascenko, Sonja Peternelj, Magda Perusko, Tatjana Blazic, Manca Pajnic, Spela Bracun-Vnuk, Vid Sustar, Apolonija Bedina-Zavec, Karin Schara, Rado Jansa and Veronika Kralj-Iglic

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Invited authors present the latest results in this exciting multidisciplinary field