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October 19, 2023 Congratulations to Mareike! Thesis title: A bacterial mimetic system to study bacterial inactivation and infection. Mareike’s Articles: Biomimetic asymmetric bacterial membranes incorporating lipopolysaccharide, M. Stephan, V. Dunsing, S. Pramanik, S. Chiantia, S. Barbirz, T. Robinson and R. Dimova, Biophys. J. 122, 2147-2161 (2023) DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2022.12.017 Full text Tunable biomimetic bacterial membranes from binary and ternary lipid mixtures and their application in antimicrobial testing, E. Krok, M. Stephan, R. Dimova and L. Piatkowski, Biochim. Biophys. Acta - Biomembranes 1865, 184194 (2023) DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2023.184194 Full text BioRxiv link Bilayer charge asymmetry and oil residues  destabilizes membranes upon poration, F.S.C. Leomil, M. Stephan, S. Pramanik,…

Congratulations to Agustin Mangiarotti for receiving the 2022 travel award of the Biophysical Society!!!

So proud of Shreya Pramanik who received the EBSA poster award, and of Fernanda Leomil and Mina Aleksanyan who received the EBSA travel award!!! Congratulation girls! Fernanda & Mina at EBSA 2021

Rumiana Dimova received the Liesegang Prize of the German Colloid Society in recognition of her work on lipid bilayers and biomembranes

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.

Rumiana Dimova featured in the 2020 calendar of inspiring physicists published by the European Physical Society

Relaxing group retreat in the outskirts of Berlin

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