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Sackmann dedicated a lifetime of research towards probing the living cell with tools of physics, long before biophysics was the mode of the day. Considered as a father of biophysics in Europe, he pioneered, along with others, the idea of a "bottom up" approach towards understanding the cell –
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Wiegand, G.; Neumaier, K. R.; Sackmann, E. (1998). "Microinterferometry: Three-Dimensional
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starting from relatively simple systems like lipid bilayers, giant vesicles and actin in solution and going towards more and more complex systems to reach eventually an understanding at the level of the entire cell.
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Uhde, J; Feneberg, W; Ter-Oganessian, N; Sackmann, E; Boulbitch, A (2005). "Osmotic force-controlled microrheometry of entangled actin networks".
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capable of exerting very small pulling forces. He contributed to our understanding of the dynamics of single
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of macromolecular networks, applications of solid-supported lipid-protein membranes, ultrathin hydrated
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