Michael Mayer Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering 2174 Lurie Biomedical Engineering Building (734) 763-4609 FAX: (734) 763-4371 mimayer@umich.edu Communication and transport across biomembranes, membrane biophysics, ion channels and carrier proteins, electrophysiology, micro/nanofabrication, biosensors. Short Bio Research Publications Teaching Group Page

Recent Publications

Mayer M., Yang J., Gitlin I., Gracias D. H., Whitesides G. M.
“Micropatterned agarose gels for stamping arrays of proteins and gradients of proteins”
Proteomics 2004, in press.


Yang J., Mayer M., Kriebel J. K., Garstecki P., Whitesides G. M.
“Self-assembled aggregates of IgGs as templates for the growth of clusters of gold nanoparticles”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004, in press.


Mayer M., Kriebel J. K., Tosteson M. T., Whitesides G. M.
“Microfabricated Teflon membranes for low-noise recordings of ion channels in planar lipid bilayers”
Biophys. J. 2003, 85, 2684-2695.


Terrettaz S., Mayer M., Vogel H.
“Highly electrically insulating tethered lipid bilayers for probing the function of iob channel proteins”
Langmuir 2003, 19, 5567-5569.


Rigler P. H. A., Ulrich W.-P., Hoffmann P, Mayer M., Vogel H.
“Reversible immobilization of peptides: surface modification and in situ detection by ATR-FTIR spectroscopy”
ChemPhysChem 2003, 4, 268-275.


Gitlin I., Mayer M., Whitesides G. M.
“Significance of charge regulation in the analysis of protein charge ladders”.
J. Phys. Chem. B. 2003, 107, 1466-1472.


Pick H. M., Preuss A. K., Mayer M., Wohland T., Hovius R., Vogel H.
“Monitoring the formation of densely packed recombinant receptors during clustering in the plasma membranes of live biological cells”
Biochemistry 2003, 42, 877-884.


Mayer M., Terrettaz S., Giovangrandi L., Stora T., Vogel H.
“Functional analysis of ion channels: Planar patch clamp and impedance spectroscopy of tethered lipid membranes”
In Biosensors – A practical Approach, 2nd Ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2003.


Ferrigno R., Stroock A. D., Clark T. D., Mayer M., Whitesides G. M.
“Membraneless vanadium redox fuel cell using laminar flow”
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 12930-12931.


Mayer M., Muscate-Magnussen A., Vogel H., Ehrat M., Bruin G. J. M.“Immunoaffinity screening with capillary electrochromatography”
Electrophoresis 2002, 23, 1255-1262.


Schmidt C., Mayer M., Vogel H.
“A chip-based biosensor for the functional analysis of single ion channels”
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2000, 39, 3137-3140.


Mayer M., Rapp E., Marck C., Bruin G. J. M.
“Fritless capillary electrochromatography”
Electrophoresis 1999, 20, 43-49.


Mayer M., Ruzicka J.
“Flow injection based renewable electrochemical sensor system”
Anal. Chem. 1996, 68, 3808-3814.


Mayer M., Genrich M., Kuennecke W., Bilitewski U.
“Automated determination of lactulose in milk using an enzyme reactor and flow analysis with integrated dialysis”
Anal. Chim. Acta 1996, 324, 37-45.