Dr. Steven Lenhert BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE
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Dr. Steven Lenhert

Office: 221A Biology Unit I
Office: TBA
Lab: 2221C,D Biology Unit I
Lab: TBA
Fax: (850) 644-0481
Mail code: 4370
E-mail: lenhert@bio.fsu.edu

Assistant Professor;
Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.), University of Münster, 2004

POSITIONS AVAILABLE for graduate and undergraduate students (starting in spring of 2010).

Research and Professional Interests:

An understanding of biology at the molecular level has revolutionized biological science, enabling us to view living systems as complex molecular machines. From this perspective, the following questions arise: (1) how do biological molecules organize and interact on supramolecular levels to carry out a particular function, and (2) can we recreate and control that function synthetically? I address these fundamental biological questions using biological molecules such as DNA, proteins, and especially phospholipids as molecular components for the in vitro reconstitution of biomolecular functions. General interests include bionanotechnology, self-assembly and self-organization, biological membranes, cell-substrate interactions, photosynthesis, tissue engineering, synthetic biology, Langmuir-Blodgett films, micro- and nanoarrays, bottom-up microfabrication, dip-pen nanolithography, and scanning probe microscopy.

Selected Publications:

Sekula, S., J. Fuchs, S. Weg-Remers, P. Nagel, S. Schuppler, J. Fragala, N. Theilacker, M. Franueb, C. Wingren, P. Ellmark, C. A. K. Borrebaeck, C. A. Mirkin, H. Fuchs, and S. Lenhert. 2008. Multiplexed lipid dip-pen nanolithography on subcellular scales for the templating of functional proteins and cell culture. Small 4:1785-1793.

Kirchhoff, H., S. Lenhert, C. Buchel, L. Chi, and J. Nield. 2008. Probing the organization of photosystem II in photosynthetic membranes by atomic force microscopy. Biochemistry 47:431-440.

Plutowski, U., S. S. Jester, S. Lenhert, M. M. Kappes, and c. Richert. 2007. DNA-based self-sorting of nanoparticles on gold surfaces. Advanced Materials 19:1951-1956.

Lenhert, S., P. Sun, Y. Wang, H. Fuchs, C. A. Mirkin. 2007. Massively parallel dip-pen nanolithography of heterogeneous supported phospholipid multilayer patterns. Small 3:71-75.

Lenhert, S., A. Sesma, M. Hirtz, L. F. Chi, H. Fuchs, H. P. Wiesmann, A. E. Osbourn, and B. M. Moerschbacher. 2007. Capillary-induced contact guidance. Langmuir 20:10216-10223.

Lenhert, S., M.-B. Meier, U. Meyer, L. F. Chi, H. P. Wiesmann. 2005. Osteoblast alignment, elongation and migration on grooved polystyrene surfaces patterned by Langmuir-Blodgett lithography. Biomaterials 26:563-570.

Lenhert, S., M. Gleiche, H. Fuchs, L. F. Chi. 2005. Mechanism of regular pattern formation in reactive dewetting. ChemPhysChem 6:2495-2498.

Lenhert, S., L. Zhang, J. Mueller, H. P. Wiesmann, G. Erker, H. Fuchs, L. F. Chi. 2004. Self-organized complex patterning: Langmuir-Blodgett lithography. Advanced Materials 16:619-624.

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