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jcstach@austin.utexas.edu
Office Location: BME 5.202G
Jeanne Stachowiak
Professor
T. Brockett Hudson Professorship in Chemical Engineering
Department Research Area
Biomaterials
Multiscale Biophysics and Biomechanics
Computational Biomedical Engineering
Research Interests
- Biological membranes
- Biophysics
- Drug delivery
Research Focus
Jeanne Stachowiak is interested in the biophysical mechanisms that underlie the function of lipid membranes in cells, as well as the opportunity to create bio-inspired materials and systems that borrow these mechanisms. Her laboratory develops new lipid membrane substrates and lipid-encapsulated systems and examines them using advanced microfluidic and fluorescence microscopy tools. By reconstructing membranes from component parts, her work seeks to capture the minimal requirements of specific membrane functions.
Her work focuses on understanding how proteins and lipid domains modify the fluidity, reactivity and 3D architecture of membranes; examining how confinement within a lipid vesicle influences biochemical reactions and the spatial organization of biochemical components; and using the organizational principles of the lipid membrane to build functional systems such as assays, drug carriers and environmentally responsive materials.
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