Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes: A Tribute to Marin D. Mitov

Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes volumes cover a broad range of topics, including main arrangements of the reconstituted system, namely planar lipid bilayers as well as spherical liposomes. The invited authors present the latest results of their own research groups in this exciting multidisciplinary field.

Incorporates contributions from newcomers and established and experienced researchersExplores the planar lipid bilayer systems and spherical liposomes from both theoretical and experimental perspectivesServes as an indispensable source of information for new scientists

1. Marin Mitov Lectures: Measuring the Bending Elasticity of Lipid Bilayers

Julia Genova

2. Formation of Curved Membranes and Membrane Fusion Processes Studied by Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering Techniques

Michael Rappolt

3. Overview of a Quest for Bending Elasticity Measurement

Philippe Méléard and Tanja Pott

4. Extracting Interaction Parameters and Intrinsic Properties of Membrane from Correlations of Giant Vesicle Shape Fluctuations

Hélène Bouvrais and John H. Ipsen

5. Lipid Bilayers and Membranes: Material Properties

Victoria Vitkova and Alexander G. Petrov

6. Interaction of Polylysines with the Surface of Lipid Membranes: The Electrostatic and Structural Aspects

Natalli Marukovich, Mark McMurray, Olga Finogenova, Alexey Nesterenko, Oleg Batishchev and Yury Ermakov

7. Developing Cell-Scale Biomimetic Systems: A Tool for Understanding Membrane Organization and its Implication in Membrane-Associated Pathological Processes

Galya Staneva, Albena Momchilova, Kamen Koumanov and Miglena I. Angelova

8. Carotenoid-Lipid Interactions

Antoaneta V. Popova and Atanaska S. Andreeva

9. Theory of Phase Transitions: From magnets to Biomembranes

Hassan Chamati

10. Interaction of Cadmium and Mercury Ions with Bilayer Lipid Membranes Containing Channels

Maria J. Dencheva-Zarkova, Stanimira B. Naydenova and Alexander G. Petrov

11. High-Resolution Solid State NMR of Lipid Membranes

Boyan B. Bonev

12. Thermal Fluctuations of Phospholipid Vesicles Studied by Monte Carlo Simulations Miha Fošnarič, Samo Penič, Aleš Iglič and Isak Bivas