AG Selhuber-Unkel Teaching

Summer Semester 2025

Seminar: Current Topics in Molecular Systems Engineering

Content:
• Methods in Molecular Systems Science (including chemistry, physics, biology, materials science), particularly biohybrid systems, responsive materials, microfluidics, 3D printing
• Literature reading and discussion
• Practical aspects in laboratory research

Seminar: Life-inspired Biomaterials

Content:
• Introduction to life-inspired systems
• Life-inspired biomaterial classification
• Active properties of life-inspired biomaterials
• Engineering of life-inspired biomaterials

Winter Semester 2025/2026

Lecture: Biomaterials

Content:
• Introduction to living systems
• Biomaterial classification
• Material mechanics
• Biocompatibility
• Commercialization procedure of biomaterials
• Applications of biomaterials (implants, biosensors, engineered systems
• Dynamic aspects in biomaterials science
• Imaging methods
• Engineered living materials
• Basics of 3D printing
• Ethical questions concerning (advances in) biomaterials

Exercise: Biomaterials

Weekly exercise sessions accompanying the 'Biomaterials' lecture of Prof. Dr. Christine Selhuber-Unkel.

Lecture: Experimental Methods in Biophysics

Content:

• Introduction to cell organization and structure
• Mechanical properties of polymers
• 2D and 3D polymer networks
• Intermembrane forces
• Dynamic filaments
• Molecular motors
• Mechanical design of cells
• Cell adhesion
• Imaging the cell-material contact
• Force measurements on cells
• Cell-material interactions

Seminar: Current Topics in Molecular Systems Engineering

Content:
• Methods in Molecular Systems Science (including chemistry, physics, biology, materials science), particularly biohybrid systems, responsive materials, microfluidics, 3D printing
• Literature reading and discussion
• Practical aspects in laboratory research

Join the AG Selhuber-Unkel

Start your PhD as part of the AG Selhuber-Unkel

If you want to join the AG Selhuber-Unkel as a PhD student or for your Postdoc, please contact Prof. Selhuber-Unkel directly via E-Mail.
Christine.Selhuber-Unkel@uni-heidelberg.de

Lab Rotations (Master and Bachelor Students)

If you want to join the AG Selhuber-Unkel for one of your lab rotations (Forschis), please contact Prof. Selhuber-Unkel directly via E-Mail.
Christine.Selhuber-Unkel@uni-heidelberg.de