Jobs & Internships Biological Soft Matter
Internships Deformation of biomimetic living cells by enclosed active biopolymer networks
In this project you will build simplified model systems of living cells and analyze how internal biopolymer bundles affect their shape.read more »
Internships Fabrication and mechanical characterization of biomimetic living cells
In this project you will create mimics of animal cells by enclosing biopolymer networks in membranous containers, and you will develop methods of network-membrane coupling using gene recombinant DNA techniques.read more »
Internships Cytoskeletal self-organization in 3D cell-sized confinement
In this project you will study biopolymer networks in micron-sized emulsion droplets which you will produce with self-made microfluidic devices.read more »
Internship Building artificial cells in microfabricated chambers
The aim of this project is to understand how cells organize their shape and internal organization. read more »
Internship Using optical tweezers to measure the elasticity of single fibers within biopolymer gels
The aim of this project is to measure the elasticity of single collagen fibers within three-dimensional collagen networks.read more »
Internship Cell-matrix interactions on micropatterned substrates
Cells are known to be sensitive to the architecture and elastic behavior of this scaffold. But how do cells “feel†collagen fibers?read more »
Internship Reversibility and structural memory of collagen networks
The objective of this project is to gain insight in the cause and extent of the network “memory”. read more »