Soft Matter and Biophysics research community
PhD in multiscale mechanisms of evolutionary dynamics in microbes
The Theoretical Biology Group at ETH Zurich is hiring a Ph.D. student to study multiscale mechanisms of evolutionary dynamics in microbes. We will begin review...
Development and mechanistic characterisation of membrane-active anticancer peptides
Organisms are well known to produce their own antibiotic host-defence peptides that act through damaging bacterial membranes due to their different molecular co...
Theoretical problems in the areas of soft and living matter
Prof. Eleni Katifori in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, is looking for a post-doctoral associate t...
Frustrated self-assembly, theoretical descriptions of the cytoskeleton, protein-membrane interactions
PhD and postdoctoral openingsat CNRS’ LPTMS lab in Orsay (Paris area). The postdoc will have the opportunity to work on frustrated self-assembly, theoreti...
Novel bacterial motility behaviors
The Taute lab at the Rowland Institute at Harvard is offering a postdoc opportunity at the interface between physics and biology. The lab focusses on understand...
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Influence of a pH-sensitive polymer on the structure of monoolein cubosomes
Soft Matter, 13, 7571-7577 (2017) Monika Kluzek, Arwen I. I. Tyler, Shiqi Wang, Rongjun Chen, Carlos M. Marques, Fabrice Thalmann, John M. Seddon, Marc Schmutz ...
Influence of Acyl Chain Saturation on the Membrane-Binding Activity of a Short Antimicrobial Peptide
ACS Omega, 2(11) 7482–7492 (2017) Daniela Ciumac, Richard A. Campbell, Luke A. Clifton, Hai Xu∥ , Giovanna Fragneto, and Jian R. Lu Different bacterial types an...
The Effect of Coatings and Nerve Growth Factor on Attachment and Differentiation of Pheochromocytoma Cells
Materials, 11(1) 60 (2018) Anna Orlowska, Pallale Tharushi Perera, Mohammad Al Kobaisi, Andre Dias, Huu Khuong Duy Nguyen, Shahram Ghanaati, Vladimir A. Baulin,...
Understanding the interactions between sebum triglycerides and water: a molecular dynamics simulation study
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., (2017) Anna Sofia Tascini, Massimo Noro, Rongjun Chen, John Seddon and Fernando Bresme In recent years, the sebum oil has been found to...
Sugar-based collagen membrane cross-linking increases barrier capacity of membranes
Clin. Oral Invest., (2017) Po-ju Chia-LaiAnna OrlowskaSarah Al-MaawiAndre DiasYunxin ZhangXuejiu WangNiklas ZenderRobert SaderC. James KirkpatrickShahram Ghana...
Soft matter news
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- A novel technique to observe colloidal particle degradation in real time
- Protein serves as a breaking point for cell membrane rupture during cell death
- Nanobiotics: AI for discovering where and how nanoparticles bind with proteins
- UK's research evaluation system pushes academics to churn out lower-quality research, new study shows
- Packing and emergence of the ordering of rods in a spherical monolayer
- Directly visualizing the cooperative adsorption of a string-like molecule onto a solid with double-stranded DNA
- Particles from everyday wall paints can harm living organisms, but a novel membrane shows high filtering effects
- Researchers boost sensitivity and speed of Raman microscopy technique
- Stretched skin cells divide without DNA replication
- Simulations on how a virus packages its genetic material could help design nanocontainers used in drug delivery
- New 3D atomistic imagery of SARS-CoV-2 shows how virus uses spike protein to fuse with and infect human cells
- Double locked: Polymer hydrogels secure confidential information
- Pioneering simulations focus on HIV-1 virus
- Researchers use magnetic systems to artificially reproduce the learning and forgetting functions of the brain
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