ACTIVITIES AND SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS

Activities

• biophysics and statistical physics of biological membranes
• statistical physics of the electric double layer
• development of instrumentation and software in medicine
• orthopaedic biomechanics

Projects

• Bilateral project with the Department of Biology, Abo Akademi University, Abo/Turku, Finland: Human blood microvesicles in health and disease.
• Bilateral project with the Institute of Solid State Physics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria: Shapes and thermal shape fluctuations of lipid vesicles in relation to the properties of their membranes.
• Bilateral projects with Department of Physics, North Dakota State University, USA: The role of electrostatic interactions on the mechanisms of membrane budding.
  Biomechanical properties of lipid membranes with inclusions.
  Biomechanics of anisotropic phospholipid bilayers.
• Bilateral project with Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic: Clinically oriented biomechanical analysis of aseptic necrosis of femoral head (BI-CZ/07-08-006).
• Bilateral project with Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India: The influence of anisotropy and electric charge of the membrane constituents on budding and domain formation in bilayer membranes (BI-IN/06-07-003).
• Program group (MVŠZT): Functions and technologies of complex systems (P2-0232-1538).
• Project MVŠZT with the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University Medical Center Ljubljana: Biomechanical analysis of orthopaedic surgical procedures in the hip joint (J3-6198-1538-01).
• Project with Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany: Theory and Simulation of Protein-Lipid Interactions (COST D22).
• Project with the Department of Physics, North Dakota State University, USA: Biomechanics of anisotropic phospholipid bilayers (BI-US/05-06/014).
• Structure funds - 2004: CO RR2: Speech and image technologies in telecomunication and information systems.

Projects funded by foreign institutions

• Project with Abo Akademi University, Abo/Turku, Finland (Ella & Georg Ehrnroth Foundation): Skeleton-bilayer interactions and activity of multidrugresistance pump activity in human erythrocytes.
• Project with Abo Akademi University, Abo/Turku, Finland (National Foundation for Cultural Support, Finland): Membrane dynamics in erythrocytes.
• Project with Abo Akademi University, Abo/Turku, Finland (Paulo Foundation, Finland): Effect of alteration in membrane dynamical properties on multidrugresistance efflux pump activity in human erythrocytes.
• German national project, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst: Role of ordering of anisotropic membrane components in vesiculation process (A-04-06493).
• Abo Akademi University (Abo/Turku, Finland) Fellowships in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005.