December 2008
Principal Investigator Mathias Lösche accepts courtesy appointment as a faculty member in the Carnegie Mellon Department of Biomedical Engineering.
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June 2007
 NIRT-postdoc Frank Heinrich presents keynote lecture about his research on the interaction of amyloid-β oligomers with membranes at the European Conference on Neutron Scattering (ECNS 2007) in Lund, Sweden. Find the abstract here.
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June 2007
 Graduate Research School a great success ...
The International Graduate Research School Nanoscale Engineering of the Biointerface in Playa del Aro, Spain, was attended by 42 graduate students and post-docs of 8 universities or research institutions. 12 lecturers were from 9 institutions located in 6 countries. Work in progress was discussed in 2 poster sessions. More ... |
May 2007
Markus Deserno's work at the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Science in Mainz, Germany, has led to the development of a realistic membrane model which is computationally so efficient that large membrane patches can now be modeled for long time snapshots. This has been exploited in a ground-breaking investigation of protein-membrane interactions that introduce curvature into the membrane and lead to vesiculation – a key process in biology. Deserno arrives as a faculty member in the CMU Physics Depertment in September. More ...
Read the abstract and find the full text article (freely accessed from within the CMU domain). |
May 2007
 Nanoscale Engineering of the Biointerface
A Max-Planck / NSF Graduate Research School on Polymer Materials is held from May-28 to June-01 in Playa del Aro, Spain.
This is your chance to meet fellow graduate students, post-docs, and lecturers from 9 research groups in 6 countries, and learn about exciting research on biomembrane models. The number of participants is limited to 60. |
March 2007
stBLM publication
 Sparsely-tethered Bilayer Lipid Membranes (stBLMs) are discussed in detail in a recent research paper from the Lösche lab that has now appeared in the AVS journal Biointerphases. Biointerphases is an open-access journal for the Biomaterials Interface community issued by the American Vacuum Society. PDF copies: Publication and Supporting Information.
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March 2007
Biological Physics theory search closed
Markus Deserno joins Carnegie Mellon as an Associate Professor in Physics after turning out top in a world-wide search. He will arrive at CMU in the Fall of 2007 and will perform theoretical research on, and computational simulations of biomembrane systems using the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and a new, state-of-the-art computer cluster, yet to be established in the Physics Department.
 Markus Deserno, Head of the junior research group Membrane Theory & Simulation at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. CV, see here.
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January 2007
 Physical and Chemical Aspects of Molecular Biology, An International Workshop on Current Problems in Complex Fluids,
Hotel Camino Real, Puebla, México, January 4 – 6, 2007
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July 2006
 Lab renovation
Two large laboratory units in the core of the 6th floor of Wean Hall have been remodeled from scratch. Making them fit for experimental work on biological and surface science problems has involved reducing dust emission and separating them into smaller units. |
May 2006
Part of our work at the NIST Center for Neutron Research in Gaithersburg, MD, is devoted to the design of novel surface-stabilized membrane mimics, so-called tethered bilayer lipid membranes, or tBLMs. More ... |
September 2005
"The Burgh", our new home. |
