Liesegang Prize, June 2021
Rumiana Dimova received the Liesegang Prize of the German Colloid Society in recognition of her work on lipid bilayers and biomembranes
KITP program, May-July 2021
The Physics of Elastic Films: from Biological Membranes to Extreme Mechanics May 10, 2021 - July 16, 2021, Santa Barbara (online due to Covid), Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics KITP program organizers: Markus Deserno, Rumiana Dimova, Andrej Kosmrlj, and Carlos Marques The event unfolded during 5 weeks, from May 17th to June 18th with a program organized around two weekly sessions, where pre-recorded invited talks (accessible from the event website) were be discussed. Official website
Make Two out of One – Division of Artificial Cells
Press release (link) ... about a novel and generic mechanism for the division of artificial cells into two daughter cells. Article: Steinkühler et al. Nature Commun. 11, 905 (2020) ImageJ=1.52b unit=inch Controlled division of cell-sized vesicles by low densities of membrane-bound proteins.
Image contest award at the BPS meeting, San Diego, Feb 2020
Ziliang Zhao was AGAIN among the winners at the Image contest at the Biophysical Society meeting in San Diego! Read more from for the blog about his Phoenix Reborn image.
BPS image contest winner, Feb 2020
Ziliang Zhao was AGAIN among the winners at the 2020 Image contest at the Biophysical Society meeting in San Diego! Phoenix Reborn: check link to blog about image Ziliang Zhao at BPS 2020 with Phoenix Reborn
2020 Calendar of Inspiring Physicists
Rumiana Dimova featured in the 2020 calendar of inspiring physicists published by the European Physical Society
The Giant Vesicle Book: a giant book about giant vesicles
Press release (link) The Giant Vesicle Book edited by Rumiana Dimova and Carlos Marques (CRC Press) DOI:10.1201/9781315152516 Giant vesicles are widely used as a model membrane system, both for basic biological systems and for their promising applications in the development of smart materials and cell mimetics. The Giant Vesicle Book is meant to be a road companion, a trusted guide for those making their first steps in this field as well as a source of information required by experts. A giant THANK YOU to all contributors and to Carlos Marques for the quite enjoyable co-editorship! Table of content The Editors Acknowledgements Contributors Preface Part…
Marzieh Karimi Defended her PhD Thesis!
13 February, 2019 Congratulations to Marzieh! Thesis title: Mechanical Properties of Vesicle Membranes in Asymmetric Buffer Conditions. Marzieh's Article: Asymmetric ionic conditions generate large membrane curvatures, M. Karimi, J. Steinkühler, D. Roy, R. Dasgupta, R. Lipowsky and R. Dimova, Nano Lett. 18, 7816−7821 (2018) DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b03584