Göttingen Graduate Center for Neurosciences, Biophysics, and Molecular Biosciences

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 the proposal for DFG Collaborative Research Centre 937, Theoretical Physics, Göttingen, with Prof. Dr. Annette Zippelius
  • 2011 - 2012 Postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, with Prof. Dr. Eberhard Bodenschatz
  • 2012 - 2013 Postdoctoral fellow, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, UCSD, San Diego, with Prof. Dr. William Loomis and Prof. Dr. Wouter-Jan Rappel
  • Since 2013 Project leader Dictyostelium biophysics group, LFPB, MPIDS
  • 2013 - 2014 Project Leader "Dictyostelium biophysics", Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, with Prof. Dr. Eberhard Bodenschatz
  • Since 2014 Group Leader "Dictyostelium biophysics group", Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen
  • Since 2015 PI in the CRC 937 on mechanics and dynamics of biological adhesion
  • Since 2017 PI in Volkswagen foundation initiative ‘Live`-active foams




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


  • Kamprad N, Witt H, Schröder M, Kreis CT, Bäumchen O, Janshoff A, Tarantola M (2018) Adhesion strategies of Dictyostelium discoideum–a force spectroscopy study. Nanoscale, 10(47), 22504-22519

  • Miroshnikova YA, Le HQ, Schneider D, Thalheim T, Rübsam M, Bremicker N, Polleux J, Kamprad N, Tarantola M, Wang I, Balland W, Niessen CM, Galle J, Wickström SA (2018) Adhesion forces and cortical tension couple cell proliferation and differentiation to drive epidermal stratification, Nature Cell Biology, 20, 69

  • Lampert TJ, Kamprad N, Edwards M, Borleis J, Watson AJ, Tarantola M, Devreotes PN (2017) Shear force-based genetic screen reveals negative regulators of cell adhesion and protrusive activity, PNAS, 114, E7727

  • Leonhardt H, Gerhardt M, Höppner N, Krüger K, Tarantola M, Beta C (2016) Cell-substrate impedance fluctuations of single amoeboid cells encode cell-shape and cell-substrate adhesion dynamics, Phys. Rev. E, 93, 012414

  • Rother J, Richter C, Turco L, Knoch F, Mey I, Luther S, Janshoff A, Bodenschatz E, Tarantola M (2015) Crosstalk of cardiomyocytes and fibroblasts in co-cultures, Open Biology, 5, 150038