Thomasson, Elsa, Dr.
ETH Zürich
PhD Thesis 2013
Research Activities
The aim of my PhD is to figure out how a stretching environment affects the development of muscle tissue, myogenesis. The project is divided in a part where the research is focused on answering fundamental cell biological questions related to stretch activated calcium channels and insulin-like growth factor 1, and an engineering part where the aim is to develop and improve cell stretchers.
Publications
Papers:
- Ion-induced cell sheet detachment from standard cell culture surfaces coated with polyelectrolytes
R. Zahn, E. Thomasson, O. Guillaume-Gentil, J. Vörös, T. Zambelli
Biomaterials (2012) DOI:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2012.01.019 - Spontaneous Formation of a Vesicle Multilayer on Top of an Exponentially Growing Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Mediated by Diffusing Poly-l-lysine
N. Graf , E. Thomasson, A. Tanno, J. Vörös , T. Zambelli
Journal of Physical Chemistry B (2011) 115:12386 - Chemically tunable electrochemical dissolution of noncontinuous polyelectrolyte assemblies: an in situ study using ecAFM
O. Guillaume-Gentil, D. Abbruzzese, E. Thomasson, J. Vörös, and T. Zambelli
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2010) 2(12):3525-3531
Oral Presentations:
- Unravelling Cytoskeletal Transduction During Myogenesis with EAP Bioreactor, Elsa Thomasson, Manuel Aschwanden, Raoul Enning, Andreas Stemmer, Alfredo Franco-Obregón, 3rd International Conference “Smart Materials, Structures and Systems”, Acireale, Italy, June 2008
- Stretch Induced Cell Sheet Alignment, Elsa Thomasson, Manuel Aschwanden, Radu Ilinca, Raoul Enning, Andreas Stemmer, Janos Vörös, Alfredo Franco-Obregón, 14th Swiss Conference on Biomaterials, Basel, Switzerland, May 2008
- Real Time Analysis of Myogenesis in Behaving Myoblasts, Elsa Thomasson, Brigitte Städler, Thomas Blättler, Janos Vörös, Alfredo Franco-Obregón, TERMIS-AP, Tokyo, Japan, December 2007
Student Supervision
- Simultaneous Confocal and Atomic Force Microscopic Imaging of Fusing eGFP-actin expressing Myoblasts
Loïc Jacot-Descombes, semester project - Stretch Induced Cell Sheet Alignment
Radu Ilinca, semester project - Live Imaging of Myoblast Fusion with Atomic Force Microscopy and Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy
Li-ting Yu
Previous research
2006-2007: Master Thesis at the Institute for Surface Science and Technology, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland (5 months)
Title: Wet Particle Lithography- Patterning Proteins Totally in Liquid
• Creation of particle self-assembly in microfluidic channels
• Development of new protein patterning technique
Education
2002-2007: Master in Engineering Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
• Focus in master: Biological surface physics and physics in medicine
2001-2002: History of European Literature, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
1998-2001: Gymnasium Degree from the science program, Hvitfeldtska Gymnasiet, Gothenburg, Sweden