Prof. Dr. Rafael Gustavo Oliveira

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsBiophysics,Physical Chemistry at Surfaces
KeywordsBiomembranes, Glycocalix, Glycolipids, Lipid Domains, Monolayers

Current contact address

CountryArgentina
CityProvincia de Córdoba, Comuna San Roque

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Motomu TanakaE22 Lehrstuhl für Physik (Biophysik), Technische Universität München, Garching
Prof. Dr. Matthias RiefLehrstuhl für Angewandte Physik - Biophysik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), München
Prof. Dr. Emanuel SchneckTechnische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Start of initial sponsorship01/05/2004

Program(s)

2003Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2022Julio M. Pusterla and Sergio A. Cannas and Emanuel Schneck and Rafael G. Oliveira: Purified myelin lipids display a critical mixing point at low surface pressure. In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, 1864, 2022, 183874
2021Julio Pusterla and Juan Martín Hernández and Natalia Wilke and Emanuel Schneck and Rafael G. Oliveira: Ionic environment, thickness and line tension as determinants of phase separation in whole Purified Myelin Membranes monolayers. In: Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 207, 2021, 112027
2020Pusterla, Julio M. and Schneck, Emanuel and Oliveira, Rafael G.: Phase Diagram of Purified CNS Myelin Reveals Continuous Transformation between Expanded and Compacted Lamellar States. In: Cells, 9, 2020,
2017Julio M. Pusterla, Emanuel Schneck, Serrgio S. Funari, Bruno Deme, Motomu Tanaka, Rafael G. Oliveira: Cooling induces phase separation in membranes derived from isolated CNS myelin. In: PLOS one, 2017, e0189142
2010Rafael G. Oliveira, Emanuel Schneck, Bonnie E. Quinn, Oleg O. Konovalov, Klaus Brandenburg, Thomas Gutsmann, Tom Gill, Charles B. Hanna, David A. Pink, Motomu Tanaka: Crucial roles of charged saccharide moieties in survival of Gram-negative bacteria revealed by combination of grazing incidence X-ray structural characterizations and Monte Carlo simulations. In: Physical Review E, 2010, 041901-1-041901-12
2010Rafael Gustavo Oliveira, Emanuel Schneck, Sergio S. Funari, Motomu Tanaka, Bruno Maggio: Equivalent aqueous phase modulation of domain segregation in myelin monolayers and bilayer vesicles. In: Biophysical Journal, 2010, 1500-1509
2010Emanuel Schneck, Thomas Schubert, Oleg V. Konovalov, Bonnie E. Quinn, Thomas Gutsmann, Klaus Brandenburg, Rafael G. Oliveira, David A. Pink, Motomu Tanaka Quantitative determination of ions distributions in bacterial lipopolysaccharide membranes by grazing-incidence X-ray fluorescence. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , 2010, 9147-9151
2009Emanuel Schneck, Rafael G. Oliveira, Florian Rehfeldt, Bruno Demé, Klaus Brandenburg, Ulrich Seydel, Motomu Tanaka Mechanical Properties of Interacting Lipopolysaccharide Mutant Membranes Studied by Specular and Off-Specular Neutron Scattering. In: Physical Review E, 2009, 041929-1-041929-9
2009Rafael G. Oliveira, Emanuel Schneck, Bonnie E. Quinn, Oleg V. Konovalov, Klaus Brandenburg, Ulrich Seydel, Tom Gill, Charles B. Hanna, David A. Pink, Motomu Tanaka: Physical mechanisms of bacterial survival revealed by combined grazing-incidence X-ray scattering and Monte Carlo simulation. In: Comptes Rendus Chimie, 2009, 209-217
2008Emanuel Schneck, Florian Rehfeldt, Rafael G. Oliveira, Christian Gege, Bruno Demé, and Motomu Tanaka: Modulation of intermembrane interaction and bending rigidity of biomembrane models via carbohydrates investigated by specular and off-specular neutron scattering. In: PHYSICAL REVIEW E, 2008, 061924-1-061924-9
2005Rafael G. Oliveira, Motomu Tanaka, Bruno Maggio.: Many length scales surface fractality in monomolecular films of whole myelin lipids and proteins.. In: Journal of Structural Biology., 2005, 158-169