Bakarić Group

Engineering of model biomembranes, which refers to their preparation by developing new and improving existing protocols. The most important feature of the new model biomembranes is the asymmetry caused by the different lipid composition in the inner and outer membrane layers, as well as the asymmetry caused by the presence of (lipo)peptides embedded or adsorbed on the lipid bilayer.

Characterization of prepared model biomembranes by standard techniques and as a development of those that have not been used for this purpose before, especially by using FTIR, UV/Vis and fluorescence spectroscopy.

Indispensable implementation of computational molecular dynamics (MD) techniques.