Dr. Jakob Schweizer
Process Systems Engineering
Main Focus
- Synthetic biology
- Self-assembly, biological compartments, physics of lipids
- Self-organising systems and chemical waves
- Biological cell divison
- Flourescence microscopy
- Research coordination, knowlegde and quality management, public relations
- Sustainability in Research and Science
Philipp Glock, Beatrice Ramm, Tamara Heermann, Simon Kretschmer, Jakob Schweizer, Jonas Mücksch, Göberk Alagöz und Petra Schwille. Stationary patterns in a two-protein reaction-diffusion system, ACS Synthetic Biology, 2019, 8, 1, 148-157
Kai Sundmacher und Jakob Schweizer. Max-Planck-Forschungsnetzwerk für die Synthetische Biologie. BIOSpektrum, 2016, 22
Eugenia Schneider, Jakob Schweizer, & Michael Mangold (2016). Bringing the parts together: Steps towards an in-silicoprotocell. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2016, (26), 20-25.
Katja Zieske, Jakob Schweizer and Petra Schwille:
Surface topology assisted alignment of Min protein waves.
FEBS Lett. 2014 Jun 14.
Jakob C. Schweizer, Martin Loose, Mike Bonny, Karsten Kruse, Ingolf Mönch und Petra Schwille:
Geometry sensing by self-organized protein patterns
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2012, 109, 15283-15288
Jakob C. Schweizer, Matthias Garten und Petra Schwille:
Packaging in Synthetic Biology
In: Bio and Nano Packaging Techniques for Electron Devices, Gerald Gerlach and Klaus-Jürgen Wolter (Editors)
Springer, 2012
Jakob C. Schweizer and Petra Schwille:
Synthetic Biology - A New Way to Access Biological Phenomena
Imaging & Microscopy, 2011 Sep.
Curriculum Vitae
Since 2014 Research management at MPI-DCTS for MaxSynBio
2013 - 2014 Visiting researcher in the lab of Prof. Dr. David Sherratt
at the Oxford University, United Kingdom
Research topic: High-throughput methods for the analysis of
Min protein oscillations in E. coli cells
2013 PhD graduation at the TU Dresden, Germany
Topic: Min-Protein Waves on Geometrically Structured
Artificial Membranes (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Petra Schwille)
2012 - 2014 Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
in Martinsried (Munich), Germany
2007 - 2009 Scholarship holder of the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,
German Research Foundation) and member of the research group
Nano- and Biotechnologies for Packaging of Electronic Systems
Research coordination and quality management
2005 - 2011 Research assistant at the Biotec /TU Dresden
Research and education in the field of fluorescence microscopy
and biophysics; knowledge management and public relations
2005 Master thesis at the Biotec /TU Dresden
Title: Single-Molecule Anisotropy Measurements in Lipid Bilayers
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Petra Schwille)
2000/01 Studies at the Université Denis Diderot (Paris 7, France)
Specialisation in biophysics and epistemology
1997 Studies of physics and philosophy of religion at the
Technische Universität Dresden