May 21-24, 2013: The Nordic Network for Dynamic Biomembrane Research and the Nordic Network for Soft Matter Physics hold their first joint summer School "Soft Matter Methods" in Reykjavik, Iceland.
March 5, 2013: Professor George M. Whitesides, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, visits the research group and gives two public lectures: "Redefining Chemistry" and "Soft Robotics".
March 4, 2013: Alar Ainla receives his PhD in Chemistry !Congratulations Dr. Ainla!
February 22, 2013: Irep Gözen receives her PhD in Chemistry !Congratulations Dr. Gözen!
December 17, 2012: Erik Jansson receives his PhD in Chemistry !Congratulations Dr. Jansson!
October 2012: International Innovation reports about the Multifunctional Pipette under the title "A boundary-pushing pipette - Improving single cell studies" in its latest issue.
September 2012: The 1st Annual Summer School of the Nordic Network for Dynamic Biomembrane Research under the title "Biomembrane Methods" is held in Skokloster, Sweden, from Sept. 13-16, 2012. The School is jointly organized by Aldo Jesorka and associate professor Kent Jardemark from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and financially supported by Nordforsk.
July 2012: Avalance Biotech AB founded: Avlance Biotech AB is the latest spin-off from the research group with the goal to market advanced technology for single-cell research."
June 2012: Lab on a Chip Top 10%: Our article 'A multifunctional pipette' was selected by the Editors at Lab on a Chip "from all our high quality papers, to be of exceptional significance for the miniaturisation community. Papers in this category will have received excellent reports during peer review, and demonstrate a breakthrough in device technology, methodology or demonstrate important new results for chemistry, physics, biology or bioengineering enabled by miniaturisation."
February 2012: Lab on a Chip accepts our proposal for front cover art for issue 7 2012.
November 2011: Aldo Jesorka receives a grant of 1.6 Mio SEK from the Swedish Research Council (VR).
October 2011: Irep Gözen, PhD student, receives 2nd. French-Swedish Research Prize in the category "Green Chemistry for the Benefit of Human Health" for her research work on calcium interactions with biological membranes.
July 2011: Aldo Jesorka receives a grant of 1.1 Mio SEK from NordForsk, the research funding organization of the Nordic Council of Ministers, to establish a "Nordic Network of Dynamic Biomembrane Research" (Network Homepage).
May 2011: Nature Protocols "Generation of phospholipid vesicle-nanotube networks and transport of molecules therein"
April 2011: Aldo Jesorka becomes Associate Professor at Chalmers University of Technology
New papers published:
Spontaneous shape transformation of free-floating lipid membrane nanotubes
Natalia Stepanyants, Haijiang Zhang, Tatsiana Lobovkina, Paul Dommersnes, Gavin D. M. Jeffries, Aldo Jesorka and Owe Orwar
Soft Matter 2013, JUST ACCEPTED, DOI: 10.1039/c3sm50429h
An Optofluidic Temperature Probe
Ilona Wegrzyn, Alar Ainla, Gavin David Michael Jeffries and Aldo Jesorka
Sensors 2013, 13(4), 4289-4302; doi:10.3390/s130404289
A review of experimental opportunities for molecular communication
Sasitharan Balasubramaniama, Sigal Ben-Yehudab, Sophie Pautotc, Aldo Jesorkad, Pietro Lio'e, Yevgeni Koucheryavyf
Nanocommunications Networks 2013 DOI:10.1016/j.nancom.2013.02.002
Fluctuations in Tat copy number when it counts the most: a possible mechanism to battle the HIV latency
Zoran Konkoli and Aldo Jesorka
Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 2013, 10:16 doi:10.1186/1742-4682-10-16
Repair of large area pores in supported double bilayers
Irep Gözen, Bahanur Örtmen, Inga Poldsalu, Paul Dommersnes, Owe Orwar, and Aldo Jesorka*,
Soft Matter, 2013, just accepted, DOI:10.1039/C3SM27429B
Kinetics of Diffusion-Mediated DNA Hybridization in Lipid Monolayer Films Determined by Single-Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Jonas K. Hannestad, Ralf Brune, Ilja Czolkos, Aldo Jesorka, Afaf H. El-Sagheer, Tom Brown, Bo Albinsson, and Owe Orwar
ACS Nano ASAP 2012 DOI: 10.1021/nn304010p.
Formation of giant unilamellar vesicles from spin-coated lipid films by IR laser radiation
Celine Billerit, Gavin D. M. Jeffries, Owe Orwar and Aldo Jesorka*,
Soft Matter, Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 10823-10826.
Single-Cell Electroporation Using a Multifunctional Pipette
Alar Ainla, Shijun Xu, Nicolas Sanchez, Gavin D. M. Jeffries and Aldo Jesorka
Lab Chip 2012, DOI:10.1039/C2LC40563F
Microfluidic Flow Cell for Sequential Digestion of Immobilized Proteoliposomes
Erik T. Jansson, Carolina L. Trkulja, Jessica Olofsson, Maria Millingen, Jennie Wikstrom, Aldo Jesorka, Anders Karlsson, Roger Karlsson, Max Davidson, Owe Orwar
Analytical Chemistry 2012 doi:10.1021/ac300519q
Hydrodynamic Flow Confinement Technology in Microfluidic Perfusion Devices
Alar Ainla, Gavin D. M. Jeffries, Aldo Jesorka
Micromachines 2012, 3(2), 442-461; Special Issue: Microflow Controllers; doi:10.3390/mi3020442
Water coordinated zinc dioxo-chlorin and porphyrin self-assemblies as chlorosomal mimics: variability of supramolecular interactions
Aldo Jesorka*, Alfred R. Holzwarth*, Andreas Eichhöfer, Chilla Malla Reddy, Yusuke Kinoshita, Hitoshi Tamiaki*, Martin Katterle, Jean-ValŢre Naubron and Teodor Silviu Balaban*
Photochem. Photobiol. Sci., 2012, DOI: 10.1039/c2pp25016k.
Evidence for Membrane Flow through Pores in Stacked Phospholipid Membranes
Irep Gozen, Paul Dommersnes, Owe Orwar, and Aldo Jesorka
Soft Matter 2012, DOI:10.1039/C2SM25629K
Nanofluidics: Neither shaken nor stirred
Aldo Jesorka & Owe Orwar
Nature Nanotechnology 7, 6-7 (2012) doi:10.1038/nnano.2011.236
Natalia Stepanyants, Gavin D. M. Jeffries, Owe Orwar, and Aldo Jesorka
Radial Sizing of Lipid Nanotubes Using Membrane Displacement Analysis
(2012) Nano Lett., Articles ASAP (As Soon As Publishable)
DOI: 10.1021/nl203983e
Alar Ainla, Gavin D. M. Jeffries, Ralf Brune, Owe Orwar and Aldo Jesorka
A multifunctional pipette
(2012) Lab Chip 12, 1255-1261
High-resolution Micropatterned Teflon AF Substrates for Biocompatible Nanofluidic Devices
Ilja Czolkos, Bodil Hakonen, Owe Orwar, and Aldo Jesorka
Langmuir, 2012, 28 (6), pp 3200-3205.
Instrumental Methods to Characterize Molecular Phospholipid Films on Solid Supports (Review)
Irep Gözen and Aldo Jesorka
(2012) Anal. Chem. 84 (2), pp 822-838
DOI: 10.1021/ac203126f
Membrane Protrusion Coarsening and Nanotubulation within Giant Unilamellar Vesicles
I. Wegrzyn, G. D. M. Jeffries, B. Nagel, M. Katterle, S. R. Gerrard, T. Brown, O. Orwar, and A. Jesorka.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, DOI: 10.1021/ja207536a in press.
Calcium-ion-controlled nanoparticle-induced tubulation in supported flat phospholipid vesicles
Irep Gözen, Celine Billerit, Paul Dommersnes, Aldo Jesorka and Owe Orwar
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 9706-9713 DOI: 10.1039/C1SM05677H.
Heat-induced formation of single giant unilamellar vesicles
Celine Billerit,Ilona Wegrzyn,Gavin D. M. Jeffries,Paul Dommersnes, Owe Orwar and Aldo Jesorka
Soft Matter, 2011, 7, 9751-9757 DOI: 10.1039/C1SM05444A
Flow control of thermotropic lipid monolayers
Ilja Czolkos, Jian Guan, Owe Orwar and Aldo Jesorka
Soft Matter 2011, DOI: 10.1039/c1sm05455d
Generation of phospholipid vesicle-nanotube networks and transport of molecules therein
Jesorka, A ; Stepanyants, N ; Zhang, HJ ; Örtmen, B ; Hakonen, B ; Orwar, O
Nature Protocols ; 6 ( 6 ), 791 - 805 , 2011 .
October 2010: Nature Materials Advance online publication "Fractal avalanche ruptures in biological membranes" (Press Release)
December 2010: Mehrnaz Shaali start her work as a new PhD student
May 2010: Aikeremu Ahemati completed his MSc and continues as a new PhD student
Orwar named Wallenberg scholar (Link)
Orwarlab receives ERC advanced grant (Link)
19th of October 2009. Carolina Boström and Ilona Wegrzyn started as new PhD students
18th of September 2009. Ilja Czolkos defended his PhD thesis "Micro- and Nanoscale Devices for Controlling Two-Dimensional Chemistry"
Haijiang and Shijun started as new PhD students
From July 1st 2009, Celine Billerit and Natalia Stepanyants (PhD students) and Jian Guan (Postdoc) are with the group
14th of May 2009. Maria Millingen defended her PhD theses "Studies of Ligand- and Temperature-Gated Ion Channels Using Microfluidic Methods"