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Thomas Heimburg is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and specializes in research within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans several subfields, including Molecular Biology, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The main topics of Heimburg's research focus on Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior, Mechanical and Optical Resonators, Photoreceptor and Optogenetics Research, Nanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies, Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies, Ion Channel Regulation and Function, and Erythrocyte Function and Pathophysiology.

The scientist has published articles in various venues, frequently contributing to arXiv (Cornell University), Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, Human Movement Science, and Chemistry and Physics of Lipids.

Recent papers authored by Thomas Heimburg include:

  • The thermodynamic soliton theory of the nervous impulse and possible medical implications (2022, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology)
  • The excitable fluid mosaic (2023, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes)
  • The effect of stretching on nerve excitability (2022, Human Movement Science)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Heimburg include:

  • Karis Amata Zecchi
  • A.D. Jackson
  • Holger Ebel
  • P. Grabitz
  • Julia Preu

Best Publications

  • On soliton propagation in biomembranes and nerves.

    Thomas Heimburg;Andrew D. Jackson

  • Effect of Sodium Chloride on a Lipid Bilayer

    Rainer A. Böckmann;Agnieszka Hac;Thomas Heimburg;Helmut Grubmüller

  • Thermal Biophysics of Membranes

    Thomas Rainer Heimburg

  • Mechanical aspects of membrane thermodynamics. Estimation of the mechanical properties of lipid membranes close to the chain melting transition from calorimetry

    Thomas Heimburg

  • A model for the lipid pretransition: coupling of ripple formation with the chain-melting transition.

    Thomas Heimburg

  • The Temperature Dependence of Lipid Membrane Permeability, its Quantized Nature, and the Influence of Anesthetics

    Andreas Blicher;Katarzyna Wodzinska;Matthias Fidorra;Matthias Fidorra;Mathias Winterhalter

  • The Thermodynamics of General Anesthesia

    Thomas Heimburg;Andrew D. Jackson

  • Towards a thermodynamic theory of nerve pulse propagation

    Søren Ssl Andersen;Andrew D. Jackson;Thomas Rainer Heimburg

  • Lipid Ion Channels

    Thomas Heimburg

  • Investigation of secondary and tertiary structural changes of cytochrome c in complexes with anionic lipids using amide hydrogen exchange measurements: an FTIR study.

    T. Heimburg;D. Marsh

  • Protein surface-distribution and protein-protein interactions in the binding of peripheral proteins to charged lipid membranes.

    T. Heimburg;D. Marsh

  • Enthalpy and volume changes in lipid membranes I. The proportionality of heat and volume changes in the lipid melting transition and its implication for the elastic constants.

    Holger Ebel;Peter Grabitz;Thomas Heimburg

  • Protein reconstitution into freestanding planar lipid membranes for electrophysiological characterization

    Thomas Gutsmann;Thomas Heimburg;Ulrich Keyser;Kozhinjampara R Mahendran

  • Binding of peripheral proteins to mixed lipid membranes: effect of lipid demixing upon binding.

    Thomas Heimburg;Brigitta Angerstein;Derek Marsh

  • Network formation of lipid membranes: triggering structural transitions by chain melting.

    Matthias F. Schneider;Derek Marsh;Wolfgang Jahn;Beate Kloesgen

  • ON THE ACTION POTENTIAL AS A PROPAGATING DENSITY PULSE AND THE ROLE OF ANESTHETICS

    Thomas Heimburg;Andrew D. Jackson

  • Diffusion in two-component lipid membranes--a fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and monte carlo simulation study.

    Agnieszka E. Hac;Heiko M. Seeger;Matthias Fidorra;Thomas Heimburg

  • The capacitance and electromechanical coupling of lipid membranes close to transitions: the effect of electrostriction.

    Thomas Heimburg

  • Peripheral and Integral Binding of Cytochrome c to Phospholipids Vesicles

    Silke Oellerich;Sophie Lecomte;Maite Paternostre;Thomas Heimburg

  • Relaxation Kinetics of Lipid Membranes and Its Relation to the Heat Capacity

    Peter Grabitz;Vesselka P. Ivanova;Thomas Heimburg

  • Cholesterol-Induced Variations in the Volume and Enthalpy Fluctuations of Lipid Bilayers

    S. Halstenberg;T. Heimburg;T. Hianik;U. Kaatze

  • The stability of solitons in biomembranes and nerves.

    B Lautrup;R Appali;Andrew D Jackson;Thomas Heimburg

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek Marsh
Derek Marsh Max Planck Society
Udo Kaatze
Udo Kaatze University of Göttingen
Peter Hildebrandt
Peter Hildebrandt Technical University of Berlin
Rodney L. Biltonen
Rodney L. Biltonen University of Virginia
Klaus Weber
Klaus Weber Max Planck Society
Daniel E. Otzen
Daniel E. Otzen Aarhus University
Luis A. Bagatolli
Luis A. Bagatolli National University of Córdoba
Julie Gehl
Julie Gehl University of Copenhagen
Ulrich F. Keyser
Ulrich F. Keyser University of Cambridge
Thomas Bjørnholm
Thomas Bjørnholm Villum Foundation

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