Guest Lecture: Mathias Winterhalter

Transport of small molecules across membranes

Mathias Winterhalter is Professor of Biophysics at Constructor University Bremen (formerly Jacobs University) in Germany. He is currently Fellow-in-Residence at CYAS, invited by LAMBE laboratory.

Life is based on compartmentation and the control of access. For example, Gram-negative bacteria protecting their inside with a sophisticated double wall. The cell needs to harvest nutrients while rejecting cell toxic substances. Within a larger consortium we tried to understand the rate limiting steps in antibiotic uptake and transport related resistance. For this we developed techniques to quantify the transport across the few nm thick membrane and in particular the flux across membrane channel. 

Here during my stay in Cergy we try to develop a sensor based on solid state miniaturized chips and functionalize them specifically with membrane channel. We expect that such hybrid material to have the robustness of solid state material with the versability of channel forming proteins.

• Date: October 15th, 2024 from 2pm to 3pm
  The hybrid guest lecture is organised in person at the H008 Meeting Room of MIR in Neuville-sur-Oise and remotely on Zoom.
  To attend the remote guest lecture, please connect to Zoom: https://cyu-fr.zoom.us/j/91959830294?pwd=dR8ooCCbJENbAgLYeG5LYayoMs5H0m.1
  ID de réunion : 919 5983 0294
  Code secret:24586073
• The video will be published on CY AS YouTube Channel.