Petra Schwille obtained her PhD in 1996 with Manfred Eigen at the MPI for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. In 2014, she was awarded the EPS Emmy Noether distinction for women in physics. Her main research interests are in the field of membrane biophysics.
Since then she has been leading the Biophysics Lab in the Department of Theory and BioSystems. Afterwards she joined the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces as a postdoctoral fellow, where she became a group leader in 2000. Rumiana Dimova obtained her PhD from Bordeaux University (France) in 1999. Her current research interests include synthesis and self-assembly of block copolymers into polymersomes and hybrid vesicles as cellular mimics. She obtained her BSc in biomolecular sciences from the University of St Andrews (UK) and her DPhil from the University of Oxford (UK) in organic chemistry in 2016 with Prof. Dr Katharina Landfester at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany. We compare and contrast liposomes and polymersomes for a better a priori choice and design of vesicles and try to understand the advantages and shortcomings associated with using one or the other in many different aspects (properties, synthesis, self-assembly, applications) and which aspects have been studied and developed with each type and update the current development in the field.Įmeline Rideau is currently a postdoctoral researcher under the supervision of Prof. A fundamental feature of such an endeavor is the generation and control of model membranes such as liposomes and polymersomes. This is where the bottom-up approach of synthetic biology comes from: a stepwise assembly of biomimetic functionalities ultimately into a protocell. Thus there is a need for simplified and controllable models of life for a deeper understanding of fundamental biological processes and man-made applications. However, living organisms are immensely complex. Cells are integral to all forms of life due to their compartmentalization by the plasma membrane.
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