Jakob Schweizer

Main Focus

Synthetic biology
Self-assembly, biological compartments, physics of lipids
Self-organising systems and chemical waves
Biological cell divison
Flourescence microscopy
Research coordination, knowlegde and quality management, public relations

Selected publications:

Katja Zieske, Jakob Schweizer and Petra Schwille:
Surface topology assisted alignment of Min protein waves
FEBS Lett. 2014 Jun 14.

Jakob C. Schweizer, Martin Loose, Mike Bonny, Karsten Kruse, Ingolf Mönch und Petra Schwille:
Geometry sensing by self-organized protein patterns
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2012, 109, 15283-15288

Jakob C. Schweizer, Matthias Garten und Petra Schwille:
Packaging in Synthetic Biology
In: Bio and Nano Packaging Techniques for Electron Devices, Gerald Gerlach and Klaus-Jürgen Wolter (Editors)
Springer, 2012

Jakob C. Schweizer and Petra Schwille:
Synthetic Biology - A New Way to Access Biological Phenomena
Imaging & Microscopy, 2011 Sep.

Curriculum Vitae

2013 - 2014 | Visiting researcher in the lab of Prof. Dr. David Sherratt
at the Oxford University, United Kingdom
Research topic: High-throughput methods for the analysis of
Min protein oscillations in E. coli cells

2013 | PhD graduation at the TU Dresden, Germany
Topic: Min-Protein Waves on Geometrically Structured
Artificial Membranes (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Petra Schwille)

2012 - 2014 | Research Assistant at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
in Martinsried (Munich), Germany

2007 - 2009 | Scholarship holder of the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,
German Research Foundation) and member of the research group
Nano- and Biotechnologies for Packaging of Electronic Systems
Research coordination and quality management

2005 - 2011 | Research assistant at the Biotec /TU Dresden
Research and education in the field of fluorescence microscopy
and biophysics; knowledge management and public relations

2005 | Master thesis at the Biotec /TU Dresden
Title: Single-Molecule Anisotropy Measurements in Lipid Bilayers
(Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Petra Schwille)

2000/01 | Studies at the Université Denis Diderot (Paris 7, France)
Specialisation in biophysics and epistemology

1997 | Studies of physics and philosophy of religion at the
Technische Universität Dresden