Rumiana Dimova

This study quantifies how viscosity, surface charge, and membrane interactions affect single-protein diffusion in GUVs, revealing membrane-proximal interactions and long-range charge effects.

This paper introduces a giant vesicle platform to study synthetic ER networks, showing that lipid composition and GTPase Sey1 influence network formation and structure.

This paper introduces Raman spectroscopy with spectral phasor analysis to non-invasively map the chemical composition and water content of biomolecular condensates, revealing insights into their physical properties.

The paper shows that rapid vesicle fusion in synthetic cells causes lipid asymmetry, leading to curvature, tension, and instability, highlighting the mechanical costs of fusion.

This study shows breast cancer cell-derived extracellular vesicles actively accelerate collagen fibrillogenesis and integrate into the matrix, influencing ECM remodeling.

This study maps condensate dielectric permittivity using fluorescence and reveals that membrane interactions depend on permittivity contrast rather than absolute permittivity.

This study quantifies calcium-mediated fusion in giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) and identifies conditions under which calcium can drive full fusion without proteins.

This study uses photoswitchable lipids to control membrane remodeling in giant vesicles, showing how domain architecture influences light-induced mechanical responses.

This study combines experiments and simulations to investigate how coacervate-membrane interactions affect membrane morphology and fluidity, showing that anionic lipid content modulates these effects.

This study shows that lipid packing and cholesterol content influence condensate-membrane interactions, with increased packing reducing condensate affinity.

This study identifies CPSFL1 as a key regulator of vesicle formation and thylakoid biogenesis in plants, showing its role in membrane dynamics and metabolite transport.

This study investigates how peptide-induced hydration changes lipid bilayer packing and hydrocarbon chain conformations, potentially facilitating peptide translocation across membranes.

This study investigates how extracellular vesicle mobility in collagen I hydrogels is influenced by RGD-binding integrins, showing that integrin inhibition increases EV mobility.

This study uses LPS-GUVs to demonstrate that bacteriophage DNA injection occurs via LPS-specific binding, without requiring OM proteins.