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Rumiana Dimova

Rumiana Dimova

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
64
Citations
14886
World Ranking
8032
National Ranking
571

Overview

Rumiana Dimova is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has a research focus primarily within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their academic output includes work related to Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Cell Biology, and Biomaterials.

The scientist's research spans several main topics such as Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies, RNA Interference and Gene Delivery, Cellular transport and secretion, RNA Research and Splicing, Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications, and Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials.

Dimova has published extensively in a range of scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Biophysical Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Advanced Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Recent papers authored by Dimova cover various aspects of membrane biophysics and cell biology. These include:

  • "Reversible pH-Responsive Coacervate Formation in Lipid Vesicles Activates Dormant Enzymatic Reactions" (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • "Controlled division of cell-sized vesicles by low densities of membrane-bound proteins" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Curvature in Biological Systems: Its Quantification, Emergence, and Implications across the Scales" (2022, Advanced Materials)
  • "Stress granules plug and stabilize damaged endolysosomal membranes" (2023, Nature)
  • "Wetting and complex remodeling of membranes by biomolecular condensates" (2023, Nature Communications)

Collaborative work is a notable aspect of Dimova's research, with frequent co-authors including Reinhard Lipowsky, Agustín Mangiarotti, Jan Steinkühler, Ziliang Zhao, and Mina Aleksanyan.

Best Publications

  • Liposomes and polymersomes: a comparative review towards cell mimicking.

    Emeline Rideau;Rumiana Dimova;Petra Schwille;Frederik R. Wurm

  • Recent developments in the field of bending rigidity measurements on membranes.

    Rumiana Dimova

  • Boron carbon nitride nanostructures from salt melts: tunable water-soluble phosphors.

    Weiwei Lei;David Portehault;Rumiana Dimova;Markus Antonietti

  • A practical guide to giant vesicles. Probing the membrane nanoregime via optical microscopy

    Rumiana Dimova;Said Aranda;Natalya Bezlyepkina;Vesselin Nikolov

  • Sequential bottom-up assembly of mechanically stabilized synthetic cells by microfluidics

    Marian Weiss;Marian Weiss;Johannes Patrick Frohnmayer;Johannes Patrick Frohnmayer;Lucia Theresa Benk;Lucia Theresa Benk;Barbara Haller;Barbara Haller

  • Effect of cholesterol on the rigidity of saturated and unsaturated membranes: fluctuation and electrodeformation analysis of giant vesicles

    Rubèn Serral Gracià;Natalya Bezlyepkina;Roland L. Knorr;Reinhard Lipowsky

  • MaxSynBio - Avenues towards creating cells from the bottom up

    Petra Schwille;Joachim Spatz;Katharina Landfester;Eberhard Bodenschatz

  • Electro-Deformation and Poration of Giant Vesicles Viewed with High Temporal Resolution

    Karin A. Riske;Rumiana Dimova

  • Giant vesicles in electric fields

    Rumiana Dimova;Karin A. Riske;Said Aranda;Natalya Bezlyepkina

  • Time scales of membrane fusion revealed by direct imaging of vesicle fusion with high temporal resolution.

    Christopher K. Haluska;Karin A. Riske;Valérie Marchi-Artzner;Jean-Marie Lehn

  • The 2018 biomembrane curvature and remodeling roadmap.

    Patricia Bassereau;Patricia Bassereau;Rui Jin;Tobias Baumgart;Markus Deserno

  • Isothermal titration calorimetry of the polyelectrolyte/water interaction and binding of Ca2+: Effects determining the quality of polymeric scale inhibitors

    Cornelia G. Sinn;Rumiana Dimova;Markus Antonietti

  • Pretransitional Effects in Dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine Vesicle Membranes: Optical Dynamometry Study

    R. Dimova;B. Pouligny;C. Dietrich;C. Dietrich

  • Hyperviscous diblock copolymer vesicles

    R. Dimova;U. Seifert;B. Pouligny;S. Förster

  • Transport of beads by several kinesin motors.

    Janina Beeg;Stefan Klumpp;Rumiana Dimova;Rubèn Serral Gracià

  • Reversible pH-Responsive Coacervate Formation in Lipid Vesicles Activates Dormant Enzymatic Reactions.

    Celina Love;Celina Love;Jan Steinkühler;David T. Gonzales;David T. Gonzales;Naresh Yandrapalli

  • Vesicles in electric fields: Some novel aspects of membrane behavior

    Rumiana Dimova;Natalya Bezlyepkina;Marie Domange Jordö;Roland L. Knorr

  • Domains in membranes and vesicles

    Reinhard Lipowsky;Rumiana Dimova

  • Binding of calcium to phosphatidylcholine-phosphatidylserine membranes

    Cornelia G. Sinn;Markus Antonietti;Rumiana Dimova

  • Controlled division of cell-sized vesicles by low densities of membrane-bound proteins

    Jan Steinkühler;Roland L. Knorr;Ziliang Zhao;Tripta Bhatia

  • A New Method for Measuring Edge Tensions and Stability of Lipid Bilayers: Effect of Membrane Composition

    Thomas Portet;Rumiana Dimova

  • Membrane nanotubes induced by aqueous phase separation and stabilized by spontaneous curvature

    Yanhong Li;Reinhard Lipowsky;Rumiana Dimova

Frequent Co-Authors

Reinhard Lipowsky
Reinhard Lipowsky Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Kai Sundmacher
Kai Sundmacher Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems
Markus Antonietti
Markus Antonietti Max Planck Society
Dennis E. Discher
Dennis E. Discher University of Pennsylvania
Joachim P. Spatz
Joachim P. Spatz Max Planck Society
Bernhard V. K. J. Schmidt
Bernhard V. K. J. Schmidt University of Glasgow
Katharina Landfester
Katharina Landfester Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Patricia Bassereau
Patricia Bassereau Institute Curie
Philippe I. H. Bastiaens
Philippe I. H. Bastiaens Max Planck Society
Petra Schwille
Petra Schwille Max Planck Society

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