Dr. Nika Otrin
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
Process Systems Engineering
Process Systems Engineering
Main Focus
Tools for construction of artificial cells:
- Reconstitution of membrane proteins into microcompartments (giant unilamellar vesicles, GUVs)
- Microfluidic setups for real-time monitoring of protein-functionalized GUVs
- Salt, charge and SNARE-mediated membrane fusion
- Artificial lipid rafts
and their biophysical analysis:
- Interbilayer and transbilayer transport of phospholipids, lateral diffusion, membrane disorder, bending rigidity, passive proton permeability
- Interactions with membrane proteins