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September 2018 |
The Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) approved our request for funding of the 2019 Advanced Lecture Course Biological Surfaces and Interfaces: the Mechanistic View, organized by Marta Bally, Delphine Gourdon, Chris Lorenz, and myself.
Link to the conference website.
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October 2017 |
Congratulations to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson on being awarded the 2017 Chemistry Nobel Prize!
It's about time, and it is a great day for everyone in the EM community. La viva cryo. :)
(I have my own fond memories of studying Henderson's papers in upper undergrad and grad school, and doing cryoEM on an old JEOL 1200 at McMaster in late 90s. On diacetylenic lipids of all things...)
Link to the announcement.
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September 2017 |
Thanks to all the participants and the sponsors for the excellent Bloodsurf2017 meeting in Clemson, SC!
Links:
conference website and group photos.
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August 2017 |
Thanks to all the participants and the sponsors for the excellent 2017 FEBS Biological Surfaces and Interfaces workshop in interface dynamics that took place (as usual) in Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain, in July.
Links:
conference website, conference photos, 2019 meeting
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December 16, 2016 |
Congratulations to Dr. Alessia Donati on obtaining her Dr. rer. nat. with the predicat magna cum laude!
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December 11, 2016 |
Tomorrow, 12.12.2016, Alessia Donati will defend her Doctoral Thesis A multilevel study of platelet activation at biomaterial surface: from evaluating to controlling hemocompatibility.
Good luck!
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December 1, 2016 |
Hot off the press, our J. Chem. Phys paper Lipid Phase Behavior Studied with a Quartz Crystal Microbalance: A Technique for Biophysical Studies with Applications in Screening.
J. Chem. Phys. 145, 204904 (2016).
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August 12, 2016 |
Alessia Donati is going to present a poster on her work at the Platelets 2016 International Symposium in Wellesley, MA, USA in September 2016.
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July 23, 2016 |
Our reivew, Stirred, shaken, or stagnant: What goes on at the blood–biomaterial interface, appears in Blood Reviews.
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July 20, 2016 |
Congratulations to Eva Uhl on the publication in Langmuir of the paper
Platelet immobilization on supported phospholipid bilayers for single platelet studies
that was based on her M.Sc. thesis work!
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June 22, 2016 |
Congratulations to Alessia Donati on the publication of her first paper!
Observation of subpopulations in purified platelets adsorbed on glass, published in Biointerphases in June 2016.
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May 3, 2016 |
Congratulations to Eva Uhl on completing her Master with an excellent mark! We are sad to see you go, but wish you luck in your future pursuits!
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February 16, 2016 |
The paper Hearing What You Cannot See and Visualizing What You Hear: Interpreting Quartz Crystal Microbalance Data from Solvated Interfaces by Reviakine, Johannsmann, Richter "...received enough citations to place it in the top 1% of its academic field based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year (as of September/October 2015)." Data from Essential Science Indicators.
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November 29, 2015 |
Alessia Donati is awarded the second prize for her presentation Towards Studying Platelet Activation at the Single Cell Level at the 34th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Clinical Microcirculation and Hemorheology, Regensburg, November 2015.
Congratulations!
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October 17, 2015 |
Alessia Donati gives an invited talk at the Technology meets Biology meeting of the Nordic Network for Biomembrane Dynamics in Tallinn, Estonia.
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October 1, 2015 |
We welcome back Concepcion Molina, who chose to come back to our group for a longer stay to investigate the mysteries of platelet life at surfaces.
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August 1, 2015 |
We welcome Eva Uhl, who will perform her Master thesis work with us.
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July 1, 2015 |
We welcome Gennaro Ruggiero, the recipient of the KHYS Aspirant Grant, who will stay with us for one month to study the effect of various lipids on platelet activation.
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June 10, 2015 |
An Octopus in the Microscope! |
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A platelet adhering on a substrate in this image looks like a mythical sea creature... Image size: 16x16 um2
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June 2, 2015 |
We welcome a new PhD student, Tanu Srivastava!
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June 1, 2015 |
We welcome Concepcion Molina, the recipient of the KHYS Aspirant Grant. Concepcion will work with us on platelet-biomaterial interactions.
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February 25, 2015 |
The groups of Dr. Ilya Reviakine (IFG/KIT) and Prof. Friedrich Jung (Institut für Biomaterialforschung, Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, Teltow, Berlin) are awarded a Twinning project by the Biointerfaces Program of the Helmholtz Association. The project will combine biological expertise and the surface science capabilities of the two groups to investigate platelet interactions with biomaterials.
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January 15, 2015 |
Dr. Claudia Spierling, from the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research in Dresden, visits our group and gives a seminar Hemocompatibility of Functionalized Surfaces.
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January 12, 2015 |
Alessia Donati and Ilya Reviakine give a seminar on their work on blood biocompatibility of materials at the Biointerfaces (BIF) Graduate School seminar series at KIT. First seminar of 2015, welcome back everyone and happy new year!
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December 2014 |
Alessia Donati wins a KHYS (Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists) travel scholarship to spend three month at Chalmers Institute of Technology, Sweden, in spring of 2015, where she will perform single platelet experiments.
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November 2014 |
We welcome Tamara Spies, joining our lab as an undergraduate research assistant, to preform neutron reflectometry experients on asymmetric membrane mimmetic supported lipid bilayers.
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September 30, 2014 |
Meeting of the journal club, where Alessia Donati will talk about a COST Training School Soft Interactions in biological and biomimetic self assemblies and and Özguel Bulut will takl about SIMS-Europe 2014 that they attended during the summer will take palce on 30.09.2014.
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September 15, 2014 |
We welcome a new Master's student, RAMA KRISHNA Bontu, who joins us from the University of Siegen (Germany) to study blood plasma proteins adsorbed on biomaterial surfaces.
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May 19, 2014 |
Ilya Reviakine recieves support from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for a study of aminophospholipid asymmetry in solid-supported bilayers by neutron reflectometry.
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May 19, 2014 |
Journal club meeting where Özguel Demir presents a paper
by Keselowsky et a.Surface chemistry modulates fibronectin conformation
and directs integrin binding and specificity to
control cell adhesion. J. Biomed. Mater. Res. 66A: 247–259, (2003).
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May 14, 2014 |
Publications:Feature
Article Hearing what you can’t see and visualizing what you hear: interpreting quartz crystal microbalance data from solvated interfaces by Reviakine, Johannsmann, and Richter, becomes the most cited article published by the faculty of CIC biomaGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain) since the inception of the Institute in the fall of 2006 - including reviews published by other faculty. Click on the image to download a pdf with a magnified view.
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April 22, 2014 |
Journal club meeting where Christine Dietrich presents a paper
Revealing geometry dependence in collective cell behavior
by Rolli et al., Biomaterials 33, 2409 (2012).
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April 15, 2014 |
Ilya Reviakine is invited to become a member of Subcommittee 8 'Biology' at the Institute Laue Langevin (ILL), Grenoble.
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March 25, 2014 |
Ilya Reviakine is invited to join the Editorial Board of Scientific Reports, the Nature Publishing Group open access journal.
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March 21, 2014 |
Congratulations to Swati Gupta on becoming a Doctor!
Swati defended her Ph.D. thesis Selective Activation of Platelets by Surfaces and Soluble Agonists on March 21, 2014, with distinction Cum Laude. |
February 13, 2014 |
First meeting of the Journal club: on March, 3, Alessia Donati will present a paper In
vitro hemocompatibility and vascular endothelial cell functionality on
titania nanostructures under static and dynamic conditions for improved
coronary stenting applications by Mohan, Chennazhi and Menon, Acta Biomaterialia 9 (2013) 9568–9577.
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February 2014 |
Swati Gupta will defend her PhD thesis Selective Activation of Platelets by Surfaces and Soluble Agonists on March 21, 2014, at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, the University of the Basque Country.
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December 31, 2013 |
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The branches of this X-mas tree, and the decorations, are made of flow cytometry data.
Courtesy of Elodie Trouche.
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December, 2013 |
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Article in Press: Zhu et
al. Langmuir 29, 15283, 2013.
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In this work, we were able to capture a pathway for lipids
leaving the surface during the formation of a supported lipid
bilayer (SLB). SLBs form from layers of adsorbed vesicles (SVLs, left
image and diagram above). During the formation of SLBs on TiO2,
extended flower-like structures were observed (right image).
Interestingly, if the fluorescence of the SVL was bleached before SLB
formation began, the structures were not fluorescent, either, while the
co-existing bilayer was (middle and right images). In other words, the
structures originated from the surface-adsorbed lipids. Lipid exces sand
its removal during SLB formation has been postulated on
theoretical grounds and inferred from spectroscopic measurements, but
this process had not been captured "in the act" - till now.
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November 25, 2013 |
Heinrich Rohrer died on May 16th of this year. Today I came accross his obituary in Physics Today, written by Paul Hansma.
Heinrich Rohrer shared a Nobel Prize in 1986 for the invention of the scanning tunneling microscope.
He did and he was much more than that single event of course. I bring
this up because, as a teenager, in 1985 or 1986, I read
in the Russian eddition of Scientific American an article entitled
"Scanning Tunneling Microscope" by Binnig and Rohrer, and thought to
myself, wouldn't it be cool to work with it. In 1996, I started a PhD
working with an AFM.
You can read the obituary yourself, but I would like to quote one
sentence from it - because I think it is important: "The rapid and
friendly spread of the technology [scanning probe microscopy] is due in
large part to the spirit of the field established by [Heinrich Rohrer]:
collaboration, cooperation, and mutual respect."
Some people are simply special.
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October 15, 2013 |
First measurement in a new place - SIMS!
(Thanks to Alexander Welle,
actually he did the measurement, I was just sitting next to the
instrument since I still need to learn to "drive" it). But it's a start!
Almost all the equipment is here, a few more items, and my new lab will be outfitted.
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September 20 - 21, 2013 |
Physics Meets Biology at the Cell Membrane meeting took place at CIC
biomaGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain). It was organized by Marisela Velez
(CSIC, Madrid, Spain) and Ilya Reviakine (KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany).
Meeting web-page: The Iberian Membrane Biophysics Colloquium
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CIC biomaGUNE, S. Sebastian, Spain (09.2006 - 08.2013):
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July 2013 |
Article in press: Leitão
et al. Colloids and Surfaces B 2013.
This work by Alexandre Leitão and Swati Gupta resulted from a collaboration between our group and the group
of Miguel Gama in Braga, Portugal and was partially
funded by the COST Action BioInspired Nanotechnology (TD1003).
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June 2013 |
Ling Zhu defends her Ph.D. Congratulations, Doctor.
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April 2013 |
Swati Gupta receives a grant to
attend the ESF-FEBS Conference on Biological Surfaces and Interfaces,
Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain, 30 June - 5 July 2013. Congratulations!
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February 2013 |
The article by Ricardo Tejero appears on the cover of Langmuir! Link |
October 2012 |
Dr. Ilya Reviakine is elected a member of the American Vacuum
Society Biointerphases division Executive Committee. |
October 2012 |
Dr. Ilya Reviakine receives a prestigious Alexander von
Humboldt renewed research stay fellowship to spend one month at TU
Clausthal, in Germany. |
March 2012 |
Our recent article Adsorbed liposome deformation studied with quartz crystal microbalance has been selected for the March
1, 2012 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.
This Virtual Journal is an edited compilation of links to
articles from participating publishers, covering a focused area of
frontier research.
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January 1, 2012 |
Dr. Ilya Reviakine is on leave, staying with the group of Prof. J.
E. Davies at the University of Toronto.
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December 24, 2011 |
Congratulations to Dr. Belén Sánchez on receiving First Prize in the area of Sciences Student Awards for
work that presents the best image of the University of the Basque Country. |
November 13, 2011 |
We welcome Alexandre Felipe Leitão, a PhD student from the Centre for Biological Engineering at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal,
who will spend two weeks in our group studying blood compatibility of bacterial cellulose membranes in collaboration with Swati Gupta. His
visit is paid for by the Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) of the COST Bioinspired
Nanotechnologies Action TD1003.
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October 5, 2011 |
Ling Zhu will give a talk at the Neutrons
in Biology meeting held at ILL, in Grenoble, France, October 19-20 2011. Congratulations!
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August 3, 2011
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Dr. I. Reviakine
receives a travel grant from the Basque Government for visiting the
Institute for Biomedical Engineering, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland to
perform a series of experiments on the platelet-surface interactions.
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August 1, 2011
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Prof. Svetla Stoylova-McPhie (University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA) is visiting
our group. Together with the doctoral student Ling Zhu, she will perform AFM experiments aimed at elucidating the organization of coagulation factor
VIII at the membrane. Happy imaging!
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July 27, 2011
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Congratulations to Elodie Trouche on the birth of her son - and to her son on being born, of course!
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May 6, 2011
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Congratulations to Nicole Hain on receiving her Diploma ( = M.Sc.) in Chemistry from the Clausthal Institute of
Technology!
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March 17, 2011
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Ricardo Tejero, Swati Gupta and Elodie Trouche had their posters accepted at the ESF-EMBO Conference on Biological Surfaces And Interfaces. (Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain, 26
June - 1 July 2011).
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March 7, 2011
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We welcome Dr.Belén Sanchez, who will work with us on titanium implants activated with platelet-rich
plasma (a collaborative project with BTI, S.L).
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February 28, 2011
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Nicole Hain (TU-Clausthal and CIC biomaGUNE) handed in her Diploma Thesis The effect of
liposome dimers on supported
lipid bilayer formation
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December 17, 2010
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Season's greetings everyone! Happy holidays! Looking forward to another great year!
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September 28, 2010 |
Sandra Camarero defended her M.Sc. thesis at the Escuela Técnica Superior de
Ingeniería de Bilbao
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August 14, 2010
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Pilar Martinez joins us for several month while Marta is taking care of her new-born baby.
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August 7, 2010
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Marta Gallego has a son! We welcome the new generation of scientists into the world!
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June 1, 2010
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Nicole Hain (TU Clausthal, Germany) is back with us for her M.Sc. project!
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