Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes Series

Although the origin and the basic meaning of the terms "planar lipid bilayers" and "liposome" have not changed during the years, the present advances in the scientific, technological, biomedical and consumer product fields are remarkable. Ever since its launch the "Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes? (APLBL) has provided a global platform for a community of researchers having very broad scientific interests in theoretical, experimental and simulation studies on lipid and cell membrane micro and nanostructures. Ranging from artificial lipid membranes to cell membranes, controlled release of functional molecules, drug delivery to cancer cells, pharmaceutical formulations to food products, the applications are simply enormous. An assortment of chapters in APLBL represents both an original research as well as comprehensives reviews written by world leading experts and young researchers.

1. Biomimetic Membrane Supported at a Metal Electrode Surface—A Molecular ViewJacek Lipkowski2. Lipid Monolayers at the Air–Water Interface: A Tool for Understanding Electrostatic Interactions and Rheology in Bio-MembranesNatalia Wilke3. Langmuir Blodgett Approach to Investigate Antimicrobial Peptide–Membrane InteractionsSarah R. Dennison, Frederick Harris and David A. Phoenix4. Divalent Metal Cations in DNA—Phospholipid BindingDaniela Uhríková5. Solid-like domains in mixed lipid bilayers: Effect of membrane lamellarity and transition pathwayVernita D. Gordon, Paul A. Beales, Gemma C. Shearman, Zhijun Zhao, John M. Seddon, Wilson C. K. Poon and Stefan U. Egelhaaf6. Hexagonal phase formation in oriented DPPC-Melittin samples. A small-angle X-ray diffraction studyTanja Pott and Philippe Méléard7. Probing the Self-Assembly of Unilamellar Vesicles using Time-Resolved SAXSTheyencheri Narayanan, Jeremie Gummel and Michael Gradzielski8. Defects in Planar Cell Polarity of Epithelium: What can we Learn From Liquid Crystals?Rene Markovic, Marko Gosak, Robert Repnik, Samo Kralj and Marko Marhl

Aleš Iglic received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physics and M.Sc. degree in biophysics from the Department of Physics, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, all from the University of Ljubljana. He is a Full Professor and the Head of Laboratory of Biophysics of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at University of Ljubljana. His main research interests are in electrostatics, mechanics and statistical physics of lipid nanostructures and biological membranes. He is devoted to higher education, basic research in biophysics and close contacts to clinical practice. Prof. Iglic was visiting scientist and professor at Åbo Academy University in Turku (Finland), Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (Germany) and Czech Technical University in Prague (Czech Republic). He established collaborations with researchers from different universities across the Europe, USA and India and was supervisor of many M.Sc., Ph.D. and postdoctoral students from Slovenia, Czech Republic, Poland, Iran, Bulgaria, Germany, India and Israel. Since 2009 is the editor of Elsevier book series »Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes« (APLBL).
Chandrashekhar V. Kulkarni received his PhD in Chemical Biology from University of London for which he was in receipt of a Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher Fellowship at Imperial College London (2005-2008). Earlier he completed his BSc (1999) and MSc (2001) in Chemistry from Shivaji University Kolhapur, India and started his research career at the National Chemical Laboratory Pune, India. He had a few postdoc stints at University of Graz-Austria, University of Bayreuth-Germany and University of Cambridge-UK during which he worked on a wide range of projects. In March 2013 Dr Kulkarni started ‘Lipid Nanostructures Group’ focussing on highly interdisciplinary and cutting-edge projects. Some of his research interests include complex biomembranes and biomolecule interactions, nanostructured lipid