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Swati Gupta, Danijela Gregurec, Elodie Trouche, Nicole Hain, Marta Gallego
Belen Sanchez, Ling Zhu.
May 2011.
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Group Members:
Doctoral students:









Ling Zhu (May 2009 - current):




Education:
M.Res. in Bioinformatics, University of York, UK, 2006.
B.Sc. in Medicine (First-Class Honors), Chongqing University of Medical Sciences, China, 2005.



Project: Organizing transmembrane proteins in solid-supported lipid bilayers.



Presentations:
Towards cell membrane mimics: cholesterol-containing supported lipid bilayers on TiO2.
Oral presentation at the LIST/COST symposium Bioinspired Nanotechnologies For Distributed Diagnostics, April  2012, Linköping, Sweden.

Oral presentation at the Neutrons in Biology 2011 meeting, ILL, Grenoble, France.

Poster presentation at the Gomadingen International Workshop
Membranes in Health and Disease, March 2012, Gomadingen, Germany.

Native membrane patches containing Na+, K+-ATPase studied by AFM.

Poster presentation at the Membrane Proteins: Structure and Function Conference, April 2011, Oxford, UK

Poster presentation at the IV Spanish Portuguese Biophysical Congress, July 2010, Zaragoza, Spain.

Poster Presentation at the FEBS International Workshop Physical Chemistry of Biointerfaces, July 2010, CIC biomaGUNE, San Sebastian, Spain.





















Swati Gupta (December 2009 - current):



Education: M.Sc. Biological Sciences (Specialization in Infection and Immunity), University of Leeds, UK. (2008-09); first class with distinction.
B.Sc. (Biochemistry), University of Delhi, India, 2008.



Project: Blood-biomaterial interactions.



Publications:
S. Gupta and I. Reviakine 2012 Platelet Activation Profiles on TiO2: Effect of Ca2+ Binding to the Surface.
Biointerphases 7, 28 - 40.





Presentations: Role of Ca in platelet interactions with foreign surfaces.
Poster Presentation at the FEBS International Workshop Physical Chemistry of Biointerfaces, July 2010, CIC biomaGUNE, San Sebastian, Spain.



Danijela Gregurec (April 2011 - current):



Education: M.Sc. (Applied Chemistry), University of Zagreb, Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Technology, 2010.




Project: Titania-supported lipid bilayers.



Presentations: Insights into the Phospholipid-Titania interactions.

Poster presentation at the Gordon Research Conference on Biointerface Science, May 2012, Les Diablerets, Switzerland. Accepted.

Poster presentation at the Gomadingen International Workshop Membranes in Health and Disease, March 2012, Gomadingen, Germany.

Phosphatidyl serine containing liposomes on titania: phase behaviour, bilayer formation, and lipid asymmetry.

Poster presentation at the Neutrons in Biology 2011meeting, Institute Laue Langevin, Grenoble, France.

Poster presentation at the ESF EMBO symposium; Biological Surfaces and Interfaces, June 2011, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain.
















Technical assistants:

Marta Gallego-González (January 2008 - current):




Education: Advanced Studies Diploma (DEA), University of Santiago de Compostela.
M.Sc. (Physics), University of Santiago de Compostela.
B.Sc. (Physics), University of Santiago de Compostela.



Publications:




Reviakine, I.; Gallego, M.; Johannsmann, D.; Tellechea, E., 2012 Adsorbed liposome deformation studied with quartz crystal microbalance. J. Chem. Phys., 136, 084702 - 084705.

D. Johannsmann, I. Reviakine,  E. Rojas, M. Gallego 2008 Effect of sample heterogeneity on the interpretation of QCM(-D) data: Comparison of combined QCM/AFM measurements with finite element method (FEM) modeling. Anal.Chem. 80, 8891-8899.

E. Rojas, M. Gallego, I. Reviakine 2008 Effect of sample heterogeneity on the interpretation of QCM(-D) data: impurity effects. Anal.Chem. 80, 8982-8990
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N. Barros, M. Gallego and S. Feijoo 2007 Thermochimica Acta 458: 18-22.
N. Barros, M. Gallego and S. Feijoo 2004 Chemistry & Biodiversity 1(10): 1560-1568.




Presentations:






N. Barros, M. Gallego and S Feijoo Sensitivity of the calorimetric indicators of soil microbial activity XIVth ISBC Conference 2006, Gdansk (Poland).
M. Gallego, Use of microcalorimetry in monitoring soil microbial processes, oral presentation at Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, July 2005, North Wyke – Devon (U.K.)
M. Gallego, S. Feijoo and N. Barros A new model to monitor the loss of soil biomass IC-EpsMsO Conference 2005, Patras (Greece)
M. Gallego, S. Fernández, S. Feijóo and N. Barros The relationship of the specific substrate degradation rate (Ac) and the enthalpies of the microbial reactions in soils, Thermodynamics 2003, Cambridge (U.K.)
M. Gallego, S. Fernández, S. Feijóo and N. Barros Microcalorimetric calculation of the specific rate of catabolic activity (Ac) of glucose in soils: biophysic significance and applications, APHYS 2003, Badajoz (Spain).


Former Group Members and Where they Are Now:







Belén Sánchez Martínez de Ilárduya (March 2011 - March 2012):



Education: Ph.D., Analytical Chemistry, University of the Basque Country (October 2010).
M.Sc. in Chemistry (specialization: Analytical/inorganic chemistry), University of the Basque Country Faculty of Science and Technology (July 2003).









Funding:
SAIOTEK project BiONE (BTI, S.L. and CIC biomaGUNE).




Current Position:
Responsible for the XPS (X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy) at the Materials and Surfaces department of the SGIker center at the University of the Basque Country/Álava campus, Vitoria, Spain.




Elodie Trouche (March 2010 - March 2012):




Education: Ph.D. Utilisation of adult stem cells in the case of cell therapy of solids organs: Study of relations grafted cells/ tissular environment. University Paul Sabatier, Tolouse, France, March 2010.
M.Sc. Physiology and integrated cellular physiopathology. Specialty: Physiopathology.
M.Sc. Cell biology and physiology. Speciality: animal physiology. University of Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
B.Sc. Cell Biology and Physiology, University of Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France


Funding:Strategic research program ETORGAI of the Department of Industry, Tourism, and Commerce of the Basque government and BTI S.L.














Nicole Hain (August 2009 - November 2009, June 2010 - February 2011):




Education:
Visiting student (0.2009 - 11.2009) 
M.Sc.student (06.2010 - 02.2011).
from Clausthal Institute of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany.








Funding:
ERASMUS scholarship and CIC biomaGUNE


Current Position:Ph.D. student at the Dept. of Physical Chemistry, Universität Siegen, Germany.
Sandra Camarero Espinosa, M.Sc. student and technician (April 2009 - December 2010):

Education:University of the Basque Country, School of Technical Engineerig. San Sebastian, Spain, (2008).
M.Sc. (Advanced Materials) School of Engineering of the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain (2010).
Current Position:Ph.D. student, Polymer Chemistry and Materials, Adolphe Merkle Institute, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. 
Cornelis Lütgebauks (November 2008 - August 2009):



Education:
B.Sc. Biomedical Engineering, University of Applied Science (Münster), Faculty of Physics and Engineering. Thesis performed at ETH Zürich (Switzerland), April - September 2008.









Project: Deformation of phosphatidyl serine containing liposomes on titania.









Current Position:Ph.D. student at the Laboratory for Fundamental BioPhotonics, EPFL, Switzerland. 
Madeline Coxwell-Mathewman (November 2008 - May 2009):



Education:
B.Sc. (Honours) Biology, The University of York, UK, 2008










Project: Phospholipid asymmetry in free-standing and solid-supporrted lipid systems.









Amaia Rebollo, Ph.D. (November 2008 - January 2009)




Education: Ph.D. in Biotechnology, University of Navarra, Spain, 2008.
M.Sc. in Biochemistry, University of Navarra, Spain, 2002.
M.Sc. in Biology, University of Navarra, Spain, 2001.




Project:
Blood-biomaterial interactions.



Current Position: CIC nanoGUNE self assembly group,  technician.


Maitena Soubelet Fagoaga (February 2008 - September 2008)



Education: M.Sc. (Biology), the University of the Basque Country (Bilbao, Spain) 2007.
M.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine, the University of the Basque Country (Bilbao, Spain)/CIC biomaGUNE (San Sebastian, Spain), 2008.




Project: M.Sc. Project: Interfacial shear-acoustic response in well-defined soft systems.








Ava Allahyar (July 2008 - August 2008)






Education:
Masters in Biotechnology, focusing on Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering, at the Chalmers Institute of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden). 


Project: Protein analysis and purificaiton.



Funding:
CIC biomaGUNE Summer Research Fellowship









Rik Matena (March 2008 - August 2008)




Education:
B.Sc. (Physics), University College Utrecht (Utrecht, the Netherlands). Magna Cum Laude.
Current M.Sc. student at the University of Utrecht (Utrecht, the Netherlands), Department of Physics.



Project:
Interactions between anionic liposomes and surfaces of inorganic materials.



Funding:
ERASMUS









Edurne Teiletxea Malda (January 2007 - May 2008):



Education
M.Sc. (Chemistry), Univestiy of the Basque Country.
M.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Biomedicine, the University of the Basque Country (Bilbao, Spain, 2008).




Project:
Characterisation of supportred vesicular layers.




Funding:
CIC biomaGUNE Fellowship



Publications:





E. Tellechea, D. Johannsmann, R. Richter, N. Steinmetz, I. Reviakine 2009 Model-independent analysis of QCM data on colloidal particle adsorption. Langmuir 25, 5177 - 5184.

I. Reviakine,  M. Gallego, D. Johannsmann, E. Tellechea 2012 Deformation of Liposomes Adsorbing on TiO2 Studied with Quartz Crystal Microbalance.
J. Chem. Phys.
136, 084702 - 084705.




Presentations:





E. Tellechea, D. Johannsmann, I. Reviakine High-Frequency Shear Rheology of Soft Colloidal Interfaces: Quartz Crystal Microbalance Studies of Surface-Adsorbed Liposomes. 82nd ACS Colloids and Surfaces Simposium, June 2008, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
 
E. Tellechea and I. Reviakine
The effect of the bilayer bending modulus on the extent of deformation of surface adsorbed vesicle: preliminary results. ESF conference on Biological Surfaces and Interfaces, July 2007, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain.







Current Position:FideNa and Instituto de Agrobiotecnología, Universidad
Pública de Navarra-CSIC (Pamplona Spain). 
Elena Rojas Darceles (January 2007 - January 2008)



Education: M.Sc. in Biological Sciences (Technical Biology), Univestiy of the Basque Country.


Project: QCM/AFM studies of protein and vesicle adsorption on inorganic surfaces.


Funding: CIC biomaGUNE internship.



Publications:






D. Johannsmann, I. Reviakine,  E. Rojas, M. Gallego 2008 Effect of sample heterogeneity on the interpretation of QCM(-D) data: Comparison of combined QCM/AFM measurements with finite element method (FEM) modeling. Anal.Chem. 80, 8891-8899.

E. Rojas, M. Gallego, I. Reviakine 2008 Effect of sample heterogeneity on the interpretation of QCM(-D) data: impurity effects. Anal.Chem. 80, 8982-8990.




Current Position:



Jone Muñoz Ugartemendia (July 2007 - September 2007)




Education: Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of the Basque Country.




Project: Ions at interfaces between inorganic materials and model biological systems.




Funding: CIC biomaGUNE Summer Research Fellowship







Tabrisur Rahman Khan (October 2006 - March 2007) 






Education: Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology M.Sc. program at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweeden.


Project: Nanoscale dynamics of self-assembling systems: the effect of lipid-surface interactions on the lateral organization of lipids in the adsorbing veiscles. Joint with ETH Zurich (Switzerland). Co-supervisor: Michelle Grandin.



Funding: ETH Zurich / CIC biomaGUNE




Publications:





T.R. Khan, H. M. Grandin, A. Mashaghi, M. Textor, E. Reimhult, I. Reviakine 2008 Lipid Redistribution in Phosphatidylserine-containing Vesicles Adsorbing on Titania
Biointerphases 3(2), FA90 - FA95.









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