Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes

Aleš Iglic 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. Iglic 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).

Giant Vesicles: A Biomimetic Tool for Membrane Characterization
Rumiana Dimova

Low-Frequency Sound Propagation in Lipid Membranes
Lars D. Mosgaard, Andrew D. Jackson and Thomas Heimburg

Interactions of Biopolymer Chitosan with Plasma Membrane in Biomedical Applications
Peter Veranic, Andreja Erman and Mojca Kerec-Kos

Single-Chain Bolaphospholipids: Temperature-Dependent Self-Assembly and Mixing Behavior with Phospholipids
Annette Meister and Alfred Blume

Dynamics of Heterogeneity in Fluid Membranes

Shigeyuki Komura, Sanoop Ramachandran, Kazuhiko Seki and Masayuki Imai
Lipid Microdomains - Structure, Function, and Controversies
Lucyna Mrówczynska

Polyelectrolytes and Surfactants in Aqueous Solutions: From Dilute to Concentrated Systems
Ksenija Kogej

Implications of Microvesicle and Cell-Surface Protein Shedding for Biomarker Studies, Cancerogenesis and Therapeutic Target Discovery in Ovarian Cancer
Katarina Cerne and Borut Kobal

A Comparison of the Hodgkin-Huxley Model and the Soliton Theory for the Action Potential in Nerves
Revathi Appali, Ursula van Rienen and Thomas Heimburg

Permeability of Phospholipid Membrane for Small Polar Molecules Determined from Osmotic Swelling of Giant Phospholipid VesiclesPrimoz Peterlin, Vesna Arrigler, Haim Diamant and Emir Haleva