Francisco Castro-Román
Postdoctoral Researcher
Physiology and Biophysics
University of California at Irvine
Med. Sci. I, D-368
Irvine, CA 92697-4560
Voice: 949-824-6993
FAX: 949-824-8540
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Publications
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M. D. Carbajal-Tinoco, F. Castro-Román and J.-L. Arauz-Lara. (1996).
Static properties of confined colloidal suspensions.
Phys. Rev. E, 53, p3745-3749.
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F. Castro-Román, G. Porte, C. Ligoure. (1999).
Renormalization of Helfrich's interactions between fluid membranes
in a lyotropic lamellar phases by addition of amphiphilic copolymers.
Phys. Rev. Lett., 82, p109-112.
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Castro-Román F. and Ligoure C. (2001).
Lateral streching of fluid membranes by grafted polymer Brushes,
Europhys. Lett., Vol. 53, p483-489.
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Francisco Castro-Román, Grégoire Porte and Christian Ligoure. (2001).
Smectic phase of fluid membranes decorated by amphiphilic copolymers.
Langmuir, 17, p5045-5058.
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R. Benz, F. Castro-Román, D. J. Tobias and S. H. White. (2005).
Experimental validation of lipid bilayers: A new approach.
Biophysical Journal, 88, p805-817.
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F. Castro-Román, L. Porcal, C. Ligoure and G. Porte. (2005).
Quantitative Analysis of Lyotropic Lamellar Phases SANS Patterns
in powder oriented samples.
The European Physical Journal E-Soft_Matter. 18, p259-272.
A Brief Curriculum Vitae
- B.S. Physics, Universidad de Sonora, 1992
- M.Sc. Univ. Aut. de San Luis Potosi, 1994
- Ph.D. Soft Condensed Matter, Université Monptellier II, 1999
- Postdoctoral Studies, Biophysics, Univ. of California at Irvine, 2002-present
- Assistant Professor, Universidad de Sonora, 2000-2005
Research Interests
Structure of lipid membranes.
Structure of peptides in lipid membranes.
Peptide interactions in lipid membranes