Tarantola, Marco, Dr.*
- 2000-2005 Studies and Diploma in Biology, Julius-Maximilians University Wuerzburg (Biotechnology)
- 2006-2010 Ph.D. (Dr. rer. Nat.), Chemistry, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
- 2010-2011 Scientific coordinator of CRC proposal from SFB 937, Theoretical Physics, Goettingen
- 2011-2012 Postdoctoral fellow, MPI-DS, LFPB
- 2012-2013 Postdoctoral fellow, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, UCSD, San Diego
- Since 2013 - Project leader Dictyostelium biophysics group, LFPB, MPIDS
Major Research Interests
Area of work
Biotechnology / cell biology / biochemistry / biophysical chemistry / biophysics: in-vitro detection of nanotoxicity, cell motility and chemotaxis, adhesion and cell mechanics
Techniques
Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and Single Cell Force Spectroscopy (SCFS) , Impedance spectroscopy and Electric Cell-substrate Impedance Sensing (IS and ECIS), Immobilization and Interface/Surface Chemistry, Microfluidics, Optical imaging/fluorescence microscopy (Confocal Laser Scanning microscopy CLSM, Total internal fluorescence reflection microscopy TIRFM) FACS (Fluorescence activated cell sorting), biochemical assays (MTS, LDH, Boyden-Chamber, ROS, Mitochondrial Permeability, Apoptosis/necrosis), TEM/SEM, statistical analysis of biological fluctuations
Homepage Department/Research Group
http://www.lfpn.ds.mpg.de/biophysics/home.html
Selected Recent Publications
- E. Schäfer, M. Tarantola, E. Polo, C. Westendorf, N. Oikawa, E. Bodenschatz, B. Geil, A. Janshoff (2013) Chemotaxis of D. discoideum: collective oscillation of cellular contacts, PlosONE, 8, e54172