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Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Sean A. Dilliard
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
2
Agustín Mangiarotti
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
3
Emily L. Han
University of Pennsylvania
4
Letao Xu
The University of Adelaide
5
Zsófia Németh
University of Szeged
6
Zheyu Wang
Washington University in St. Louis
7
Dmytro I. Danylchuk
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
8
Xuzhong Yang
Tsinghua University
9
Xudong Cai
RMIT University
10
Ibtesam Waheed
Yangzhou University

Papers

1
Publication in Frontiers in Oncology (2024) [142 citations, W4394686676]
Frontiers in Oncology|2024
142 cit.
2
Publication in Nano Letters (2024) [116 citations, W4405493794]
Nano Letters|2024
116 cit.
3
Publication in Nano Letters (2024) [70 citations, W4391135116]
Nano Letters|2024
70 cit.
4
Publication in Advanced Functional Materials (2024) [59 citations, W4398254670]
Advanced Functional Materials|2024
59 cit.
5
Lipid packing and cholesterol content regulate membrane wetting and remodeling by biomolecular condensates
Nature Communications|2025
50 cit.
6
Publication in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2024) [46 citations, W4392242948]
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces|2024
46 cit.
7
Photoswitchable Endocytosis of Biomolecular Condensates in Giant Vesicles
Advanced Science|2024
23 cit.
8
Anionic Cyanine Membrane Probes for Live Cells and In Vivo Fluorescence Imaging
Analytical Chemistry|2025
13 cit.
9
The spectral phasor approach to resolving membrane order with environmentally sensitive dyes
Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology|2024
6 cit.
10
Publication in Nature Materials (2025) [6 citations, W4408770733]
Nature Materials|2025
6 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Gaurav Sahay
Oregon Health & Science University
2
David Alsteens
UCLouvain
3
Matthias E. Lauer
Roche (Switzerland)
4
Denise Wootten
Monash University
5
Parisa Ghasemiyeh
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
6
Kerry E. Benenato
Moderna Therapeutics (United States)
7
Erdinç Sezgin
Science for Life Laboratory
8
Ryan Hibbs
University of California San Diego
9
Neha P. Kamat
Northwestern University
10
Yasunori Saheki
Rockefeller University

Papers

1
Engineering Lipid Nanoparticles for Enhanced Intracellular Delivery of mRNA through Inhalation
ACS Nano|2022
248 cit.
2
Peptide-guided lipid nanoparticles deliver mRNA to the neural retina of rodents and nonhuman primates
Science Advances|2023
229 cit.
3
Strategies for non-viral vectors targeting organs beyond the liver
Nature Nanotechnology|2023
134 cit.
4
Lipid nanoparticles with PEG-variant surface modifications mediate genome editing in the mouse retina
Nature Communications|2023
111 cit.
5
Structural and dynamic mechanisms of GABAA receptor modulators with opposing activities
Nature Communications|2022
95 cit.
6
Dynamics of GLP-1R peptide agonist engagement are correlated with kinetics of G protein activation
Nature Communications|2022
84 cit.
7
Structural mechanism of muscle nicotinic receptor desensitization and block by curare
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology|2022
83 cit.
8
Robust and tunable performance of a cell-free biosensor encapsulated in lipid vesicles
Science Advances|2023
77 cit.
9
Structural mechanisms of GABAA receptor autoimmune encephalitis
Cell|2022
73 cit.
10
Structural insights into opposing actions of neurosteroids on GABAA receptors
Nature Communications|2023
73 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Russell F. Doolittle
University of California San Diego
2
Kai Simons
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
3
Reinhard Jahn
Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine
4
James E. Rothman
Yale University
5
Thomas C. Südhof
Stanford University
6
Pietro De Camilli
Yale University
7
‪Siewert J. Marrink
University of Groningen
8
Alexander D. MacKerell
University of Maryland, College Park
9
Pieter R. Cullis
University of British Columbia
10
Mark S.P. Sansom
University of Oxford

Papers

1
A simple method for displaying the hydropathic character of a protein
Journal of Molecular Biology|1982
23.1k cit.
2
All-Atom Empirical Potential for Molecular Modeling and Dynamics Studies of Proteins
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B|1998
14.5k cit.
3
Functional rafts in cell membranes
Nature|1997
9.7k cit.
4
CHARMM general force field: A force field for drug‐like molecules compatible with the CHARMM all‐atom additive biological force fields
Journal of Computational Chemistry|2009
7.5k cit.
5
The MARTINI Force Field:  Coarse Grained Model for Biomolecular Simulations
The Journal of Physical Chemistry B|2007
5.7k cit.
6
Optimization of the Additive CHARMM All-Atom Protein Force Field Targeting Improved Sampling of the Backbone ϕ, ψ and Side-Chain χ<sub>1</sub> and χ<sub>2</sub> Dihedral Angles
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation|2012
4.8k cit.
7
CHARMM36 all-atom additive protein force field: Validation based on comparison to NMR data
Journal of Computational Chemistry|2013
4.5k cit.
8
Drug Delivery Systems: Entering the Mainstream
Science|2004
4.5k cit.
9
Lipid Rafts As a Membrane-Organizing Principle
Science|2009
4.4k cit.
10
Extending the treatment of backbone energetics in protein force fields: Limitations of gas‐phase quantum mechanics in reproducing protein conformational distributions in molecular dynamics simulations
Journal of Computational Chemistry|2004
3.4k cit.

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