Meet Dr. Ilya Reviakine, CIC BiomaGUNE
Friday, July 22, 2011
The title of your talk for the QCM-D Scientific World Tour 2011 is Hydrodynamic effects in laterally heterogeneous films studied by QCM(-D). Could you describe how this is related to your research?
"Research in my group is centered on interfaces between inorganic materials and soft, biological or biologically relvevant systems. In particular, we are looking at the interactions between lipids and inorganic surfaces in model membrane systems such as liposomes and bilayers, in platelets and blood-derived microparticles. We are developing membrane model systems, are studying osseoimplant surface activation by blood plasma, and are working on reconstituting transmembrane proteins at solid-liquid interfaces for structural studies and drug screening purposes.
In order to achieve our goals in these areas, we need tools: measurement techniques and data interpretation strategies. My research into how QCM senses soft, hydrated layers of discrete particles arose out of the desire to understand lipid and protein behavior at inorganic surfaces".
Why is this type of research interesting to you personally?
"Because I am curious about these things".
How does your research fit into a bigger context?
"Just two examples: Understanding how bio- and artificial materials interact will help make better implants and in general interface living systems with artificial ones. Developing better membrane model systems will help us understand how things happen in native cell membranes".
When did you first get in contact with QCM-D?
"My first interaction was with Craig Keller at the Centennial APS meeting in Atlanta, in March of 1999. We had a lot of interesting discussions with him on the issue of supported bilayer formation - around the historical Keller and Kasemo paper of 1998. Subsequently, Alain Brisson, my PhD advisor, and myself visited Q-Sense in Gothenburg in the fall of 1999. It was in many ways a memorable visit, certainly a very interesting one. I finally got my hands on a system in Zurich, at ETH, in 2000, during my postdoc".
You are giving a talk at the QCM-D Scientific World Tour 2011. Why do you choose to participate in this meeting?
"I think I have something to contribute that will be useful to other scientists using the technique".
Dr. Ilya Reviakine in short
Affiliation: CIC BiomaGUNE, San Sebastian, Spain
Other science related activities: With Ralf Richter (CIC biomaGUNE) and Marisela Velez (CSIC, Institute of Catalysis, Madrid, Spain), organized the FEBS international combined practical and lecture course on Physical Chemistry of Biointerfaces. July 2010, San Sebastian, Spain.
Served on the organizing committee of the Neutrons in Biology Meeting (NIB2009, Lund University, Sweden, June 22 - 24 2009)
Number of published papers: 29
Average citations: 30.24
Favorite quote: "Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought”. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi quotes (Hungarian Biochemist, 1937 Nobel Prize for Medicine, 1893-1986).
Favorite famous person: Richard Feynman.
