Eric Bumüller

Eric Bumueller is a PhD candidate working on improving our methods to generate and investigate functionalized giant lipid vesicles (GUVs) via microfabrication techniques. His research is focused on generating a modular toolbox for bio-inspired communication across synthetic membranes without the need for laborious transmembrane protein purification/insertion or transport across the membranes. The central goal is to develop a protocol for integrating transmembrane peptides into lipid vesicles and functionalizing them with an extracellular component for signal sensing and an intracellular component for signal propagation via bio-orthogonal chemistries.