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Welcome to the Biomembrane Lab at the University of Michigan. The Biomembrane Lab is the research group of Professor Michael Mayer in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering.

Current areas of research include the study of ion channels and membrane transporters, micro/nano fabrication, biomimetics, and biosensors.

Recent News . . .

New Papers

Several new Biomembrane lab papers in 2008 journals - We have quite a few papers that have recently been published in top journals. Among these papers are an automated and high-throughput method to profile ion channel activity in blood cells (Anal Chem), an exhaustive study of electrical noise in nanopore-based experiments (ACS Nano), a new technique for forming nano-structures in glass (Optics Lett), and a study of molecular rotors for characterizing supported lipid bilayers (BBA-Biomembranes). Click here to check out all the new papers.

Post-doc Jobs

Openings for Patch-Clamping Post-doctoral Researchers in the Biomembrane Lab - The Biomembrane lab is currently seeking a highly qualified biophysicist or biochemist with experience in patch clamp electrophysiology for a post-doctoral position in the area of membrane transport proteins. Click here to read the full announcement, posted Feb 22, 2008.

Michael Award

More Biomembrane Lab Awards - Michael Mayer recently won a Departmental Excellence Award from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan. Also, Marian Adamson won a prestigious 2008 NSF Fellowship - congratulations! Click here to see all awards won by lab members.

New Research Page

Check out the newly re-designed research page - The research page for this website has been completely re-designed, to include pictures and descriptions from the various projects in the Biomembrane Lab. Click here to check out this new page!

Dan Estes Thesis Defense

Dan Estes successfully defends PhD thesis - Dan Estes defended his PhD thesis, entitled "High-Throughtput Profiling of Ion Channel Activity in Lymphocytes for Quantifying Activity of Human Autoimmune Disease", on June 23, 2008. Dan is the second PhD student to graduate from the Biomembrane Lab. Click here to check out pictures from Dan's defense!

Sheereen wins Barbour

Sheereen Majd wins Barbour Scholarship - Congratulations to Sheereen Majd for winning the prestigous 2008-2009 Barbour Scholarship, sponsored by the Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan. Also, check out the full list of awards won by members of the Biomembrane lab. Click here to see the full list of awards.

Funding News

Funding Sources Michael Mayer receives an NIH-R01 grant to study single multidrug resistance transporters (June 2007)

Michael Mayer wins a Coulter Foundation translational grant to study mechanisms of cell death in Alzheimer's disease (March 2007)

Michael Mayer receives a Michigan Technology Tri-Corridor (MTTC) Fund grant to develop a blood-based assay for the early detection of multiple sclerosis (Sept. 2005)

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Biomembrane Lab
Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering
University of Michigan
2420 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Building
(734) 615-7262
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Principal Investigator: Michael Mayer
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0449088.

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