María Reverte López

PhD Student

With a biomedical engineering background, María obtained her M.Sc. in Cellular and Molecular Biology in 2020. During her master’s thesis in Germán Rivas’ Lab at CIB-CSIC (Madrid) she dived deeper into the field of Synthetic Biology and studied microfluidic strategies to produce hydrogels that could serve as synthetic nucleoid mimics. In late 2020, she joined the lab of Petra Schwille for an internship where she learned 3D-printing techniques and participated in a project to study the curvature-sensing properties of the MinDE system in membrane-coated microstructures. In 2021, she was accepted to the IMPRS-LS Graduate School and continued working in Petra Schwille’s lab focusing her PhD on actomyosin-driven synthetic division inside lipid vesicles.

 

Research Interests

Bottom-up Synthetic Biology, in vitro Reconstitution, Actomyosin, MinCDE

 

Publications

Reverte-López, M., Gavrilovic, S., Merino-Salomón, A., Eto, H., Yagüe Relimpio, A., Rivas, G., Schwille, P.
Protein-Based Patterning to Spatially Functionalize Biomimetic Membranes
Small Methods (2023) https://doi.org/10.1002/smtd.202300173

Fu, M.*, Burkhart, T.*, Maryshev, I., Franquelim, H.G., Merino-Salomón, A., Reverte-López, M., Frey, E., Schwille, P.
(*contributed equally)
Mechanochemical feedback loop drives persistent motion of liposomes
Nature Physics (2023) doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02058-8

del Caño-Ochoa, F., Grande-García, A., Reverte-López, M., D’Abramo, M., Ramón-Maiques, S.
Characterization of the catalytic flexible loop in the dihydroorotase domain of the human multi-enzymatic protein CAD
Journal of Biological Chemistry (2018) doi.org/10.1074/jbc.RA118.005494