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, see also Max Planck Sustainability Network
Mathew Stracy, Jakob Schweizer, David J. Sherratt, Achillefs N. Kapanidis, Stephan Uphoff and Christian Lesterlin. Transient non-specific DNA binding dominates the target search of bacterial DNA-binding proteins, Molecular Cell, 2021
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