Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes

Aleš Iglič received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics and M.Sc. degree in biophysics from the Department of Physics, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, all from the University of Ljubljana. He is a Full Professor and the Head of Laboratory of Biophysics of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at University of Ljubljana. His main research interests are in electrostatics, mechanics and statistical physics of lipid nanostructures and biological membranes. He is devoted to higher education, basic research in biophysics and close contacts to clinical practice. Prof. Iglič was visiting scientist and professor at Åbo Academy University in Turku (Finland), Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (Germany) and Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic). He established collaborations with researchers from different universities across the Europe, USA and India and was supervisor of many M.Sc., Ph.D. and postdoctoral students from Slovenia, Czech Republic, Poland, Iran, Bulgaria, Germany, India and Israel. Since 2009 is the editor of Elsevier book series »Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes« (APLBL). Chandrashekhar V. Kulkarni received his PhD in Chemical Biology from University of London for which he was in receipt of a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher Fellowship at Imperial College London (2005-2008). Earlier he completed his BSc (1999) and MSc (2001) in Chemistry from Shivaji University Kolhapur, India and started his research career at the National Chemical Laboratory Pune, India. He had a few postdoc stints at University of Graz-Austria, University of Bayreuth-Germany and University of Cambridge-UK during which he worked on a wide range of projects. In March 2013 Dr Kulkarni started ‘Lipid Nanostructures Group’ focussing on highly interdisciplinary and cutting-edge projects. Some of his research interests include complex biomembranes and biomolecule interactions, nanostructured lipid particles as carrier systems, and novel nano-bio-applications of lipid nanostructures. Dr Kulkarni joined the editorial board of APLBL in early 2013 and later as an editor of this book series.

• 1. Biomimetic Membrane Supported at a Metal Electrode Surface—A Molecular ViewJacek Lipkowski2. Lipid Monolayers at the Air–Water Interface: A Tool for Understanding Electrostatic Interactions and Rheology in Bio-MembranesNatalia Wilke3. Langmuir Blodgett Approach to Investigate Antimicrobial Peptide–Membrane InteractionsSarah R. Dennison, Frederick Harris and David A. Phoenix4. Divalent Metal Cations in DNA—Phospholipid BindingDaniela Uhríková5. Solid-like domains in mixed lipid bilayers: Effect of membrane lamellarity and transition pathwayVernita D. Gordon, Paul A. Beales, Gemma C. Shearman, Zhijun Zhao, John M. Seddon, Wilson C. K. Poon and Stefan U. Egelhaaf6. Hexagonal phase formation in oriented DPPC-Melittin samples. A small-angle X-ray diffraction studyTanja Pott and Philippe Méléard7. Probing the Self-Assembly of Unilamellar Vesicles using Time-Resolved SAXSTheyencheri Narayanan, Jeremie Gummel and Michael Gradzielski8. Defects in Planar Cell Polarity of Epithelium: What can we Learn From Liquid Crystals?Rene Markovic, Marko Gosak, Robert Repnik, Samo Kralj and Marko Marhl