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Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP): Active Biomimetic Systems
HomePage: http://www.active-biomics.org/index.html
This European network involves scientists from
the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, and from eight
other scientific institutions in Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Italy. It
is devoted to research on “Active Biomimetic Systems”.
These systems involve two types of biomolecular nanomachines, growing filaments
and stepping motors, which are able to generate force in the nanodomain. The
research network, which is coordinated by Prof. Reinhard Lipowsky, will
elucidate the molecular mechanism underlying this force generation and will
explore new possibilities for the integration of these molecular machines into
nano- and microsystems. The network has been launched on May 1, 2005.
Groups involved:
Reinhard Lipowsky, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany (Coordinator)
Marie-France Carlier, Laboratoire d'Enzymologie et Biochimie Structurales, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Marileen Dogterom, FOM-AMOLF, Amsterdam, Holland
Jean-Francois Joanny, Institute Curie, Paris, France
Josef Kaes, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Simon Nord, BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany Alberto Redaelli, Politecnico of Milano, Milano, Italy
Thomas Surrey and Francois Nedelec, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany
Konrad J. Böhm and Eberhard Unger, Leibniz Institute of Age Research (formerly IMB), Jena, Germany
Tasks of the Molecular Cytology Group at the Leibniz Institute for Age Research - Fritz-Lipmann-Institute, Jena:
Cooperativity of kinesin molecules
Kinesin movement and track fidelity
Polarity-defined two and three-dimensional microtubule systems
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