“Cell Physics 2023” conference in Saarbrücken
Members from the b-ACTmatter Biomimetic Nanotechnology group (Dr. Henri G. Franquelim, Subhasini Singh and Rayehe Mamaghaniyeh) attended the international “Cell Physics 2023” conference in Saarbrücken, Germany between October 10 – 13, 2023; meeting co-organized by the German Society for Cell Biology (DGZ, DGZ Annual Meeting) and Collaborative Research Center, SFB…
Something’s happening, Germany! Who will ensure less waste?
For the ZDF production “plan b” 2 employees went on the in search of the garbage visionaries. Their goal: To live more resource-consciously and create less waste. For this purpose visited the research laboratory of Dr. Christian Sonnendecker. You can watch the entire report here: ZDF contribution
Evaluating scaling of capillary photo-biofilm reactors for high cell density cultivation of mixed trophies artificial microbial consortia
Capillary biofilm reactors (CBRs) are attractive for growing photoautotrophic bacteria as they allow high cell-density cultivation. Here, we evaluated the CBR system’s suitability to grow an artificial consortium composed of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 and Pseudomonas sp. VBL120. The impact of reactor material, flow rate, pH, O2, and medium composition…
Entropic repulsion of cholesterol-containing layers counteracts bioadhesion
Based on a cooperation with colleagues from Dresden, we newly published a paper in Nature on a new mechanism counteracting bioadhesion by entropic repulsion of orientational fluctuations in cholesterol multilayers. Our results not only reveal this new mechanism of entropic repulsion to be relevant in the surface properties of Collembola,…