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SUMMARY:Viscoelasticity of cell membranes: from minimal artificial cortice
 s to living cells
DTSTART:20190115T161500
DTSTAMP:20260427T200819Z
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Andreas Janshoff\nAndreas Janshoff is Full Professor for
  Biophysical Chemistry at the University of Göttingen\, Germany and his m
 ajor research interests include membrane biophysics\, cell mechanics\, sen
 sor design and single-molecule force spectroscopy.\n\nAbout the talk\nA th
 in layer of actin filaments located underneath the plasma membrane in euka
 ryotic cells drives pivotal aspects of cell mechanics. Myosin-driven contr
 actility and actin-cytoskeleton membrane interactions are responsible for 
 fundamental cellular processes such as cytokinesis\, cell migration\, cort
 ical flows\, and also contributes to the response to external deformation.
  How the interplay between the actin cytoskeleton\, the membrane\, and act
 in binding proteins drives these processes is far from being understood. T
 o unravel general principles underlying actin cortex properties\, a bottom
 -up in vitro system has been developed and compared with apical cell membr
 anes derived from living cells as well as living cells subject to various 
 environmental cues.\n\nAbout Andreas Janshoff\nAndreas Janshoff\, obtained
  a B.Sc. in Biology and a M.Sc. in Chemistry from the University of Muenst
 er. Under the guidance of Hans- Joachim Galla\, he received his PhD in 199
 7. After a postdoctoral stay at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla
 \, CA (USA) in the group of Prof. M. Reza Ghadiri\, he returned to the Ins
 titute of Physics at the University of Muenster in 1999 as a DFG-fellow. I
 n 2001\, Andreas Janshoff became associate professor inPhysical Chemistry 
 at the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the Johannes Gutenberg Universit
 y in Mainz and was appointed to a full professorship in Biophysical Chemis
 try in 2006. Since August 2008\, he is a full professor in Biophysical Che
 mistry at the Institute of Physical Chemistry\, Georg-August University of
  Göttingen (Germany). His main research focus is on soft matter physics a
 nd biophysical chemistry.
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