Recent news from the Biomembrane Lab

10.27.05 - Nature Chemical Biology highlights work from the Biomembrane Lab - In the November issue of Nature Chemical Biology, recent work by S. Majd and M. Mayer on stamping arrays of supported lipid bilayers with hydrogels, is featured in the Research Highlights section. Click here to read the article.

10.10.05 - Paper accepted to Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed. - S. Majd and M. Mayer present an exciting new method to form arrays of planar lipid bilayers using hydrogel stamps for drug-screening.

10.7.05 - Several papers recently submitted or in press - New papers cover a range of topics including detection of proteins in nanopores, membrane fusion, membrane-binding assays, and monitoring chemical reactions with ion channel-forming peptdies

10.2.05 - Biomembrane Lab at BMES 2005 - We presented four posters at the 2005 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting in Baltimore from September 29 to October 1.

9.28.05 - Welcome new lab members - Joining the lab are Panchika Prangkio as a new graduate student, and Erin as a new undergraduate student. We say goodbye to Tom Mayer, as he returns to Germany to finish his studies...

9.1.05 - New lab: Lurie Biomedical Engineering Building - In August, the Biomembrane lab moved to the amazing new Lurie Biomedical Research Building. Click here for a tour of the new lab...

6.21.05 - Michael Mayer has won funding from the Michigan Technology Tri-Corridor (MTTC) Fund competition to develop a blood-based assay for the early detection of multiple sclerosis

6.02.05 - Jeff Uram just submitted his first paper entitled "Label-free affinity assays by rapid detection of immune complexes using nanopores" by Jeffrey D. Uram, Kevin Ke, Alan J. Hunt, and Michael Mayer. Congratulations Jeff!!

6.01.05 - Sheereen Majd just submitted her first paper entitled "Hydrogel stamping of arrays of supported lipid bilayers with various lipid compositions for screening of drug-membrane and protein-membrane interactions" by Sheereen Majd and Michael Mayer. Congratulations Sheereen!!

5.23.05 - Jason Rose won the top poster award for undergraduates at the UMNBEI-BME Research Symposium on Bioengineering and Space Biology for his poster "Electrophysiological characterization of a previously unknown pore-forming protein in Treponema denticola"

4.31.05- Second paper, "Giant Liposomes in Physiological Buffer Using Electroformation in a Flow Chamber" by Estes and Mayer is now in press in BBA - Biomembranes and can be found here!!

4.4.05 - First paper, "Electroformation of Giant Liposomes from Spin-Coated Films of Lipids" by Estes and Mayer is currently in press in Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces and can be found here!!

3.15 - The Biomemebrane Lab welcomes Tom Mayer, as a visiting undergraduate student from Germany.

3.25 - Second paper, "Giant Liposomes in Physiological Buffer Using Electroformation in a Flow Chamber" has been accepted in BBA - Biomembranes!!

2.05 - The Biomembrane Lab just presented four posters at the Biophysical Society annual meeting in Long Beach, CA. Click here to see pictures, notes, and highlights of the meeting!!

1.05 - Michael Mayer has received the NSF CAREER Award, the National Science Foundation's most prestigous award for new faculty members

2.01 - Second paper, "Giant Liposomes in Physiological Buffer Using Electroformation in a Flow Chamber" is submitted!!

1.17.05 - First paper, "Electroformation of Giant Liposomes from Spin-Coated Films of Lipids" by Estes and Mayer accepted for publication in Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces

1.05 - Welcome to three new members of the Biomembrane lab: master's students Chuck Hatt and Mike Doornbos, and undergraduate Soyona Rafatja

7.16.04 - Dan Estes receives training grant from the Cellular Biotechnology Training Program (CBTP).