The Giant Vesicle Book

Part I: The making of
Chapter 1 Preparation methods for giant unilamellar vesicles - Rumiana Dimova, Pasquale Stano, Carlos M. Marques and Peter Walde
Chapter 2 Preparation and properties of giant plasma membrane vesicles and giant unilamellar vesicles from natural membranes - Joseph H. Lorent and Ilya Levental
Chapter 3 Protein reconstitution in giant vesicles - Matthias Garten, Daniel Lévy and Patricia Bassereau　
Chapter 4 GUVs with cytoskeleton - Tobias Härtel and Petra Schwille
Part II: Giant vesicles theoretically and in silico
Chapter 5 Understanding giant vesicles – a theoretical perspective - Reinhard Lipowsky
Chapter 6 Simulating membranes, vesicles, and cells - Thorsten Auth, Dmitry A. Fedosov and Gerhard Gompper
Chapter 7 Theory of vesicle dynamics in flow and electric fields - Petia M. Vlahovska and Chaouqi Misbah
Chapter 8 Particle-membrane interactions - Jaime Agudo-Canalejo, Reinhard Lipowsky
Chapter 9 Theory of polymer-membrane interactions - Fabrice Thalmann and Carlos M. Marques
Part III: GUV-based techniques and what one can learn from them
Chapter 10 Application of optical microscopy techniques on giant unilamellar vesicles - Luis A. Bagatolli
Chapter 11 Mechanics assays of synthetic lipid membranes based on micropipette aspiration - Elisa Parra and David Needham
Chapter 12 Atomic force microscopy of giant unilamellar vesicles - Andreas Janshoff
Chapter 13 Manipulation and biophysical characterization of GUVs with an optical stretcher - Gheorghe Cojoc, Antoine Girot, Ulysse Delabre and Jochen Guck
Chapter 14 Vesicle fluctuation analysis - John Hjort Ipsen, Allan Grønhøj Hansen and Tripta Bhatia
Chapter 15 Using electric fields to assess membrane material properties in GUVs - Rumiana Dimova and　　Karin A. Riske
Chapter 16 Creating membrane nanotubes from GUVs - Coline Prévost, Mijo Simunovic and Patricia Bassereau
Chapter 17 Measuring GUV adhesion - Kheya Sengupta and Ana Smith
Chapter 18 Phase diagrams and tie lines in GUVs - Matthew C. Blosser, Caitlin Cornell, Scott P. Rayermann and Sarah L. Keller
Chapter 19 Vesicle dynamics in flow: an experimental approach - Victor Steinberg and Michael Levant
Chapter 20 Membrane permeability measurements - Begoña Ugarte-Uribe, Ana J. García-Sáez and Mireille M. A. E. Claessens
Part IV: GUVs as membrane interaction platforms
Chapter 21 - Lipid and protein mobility in GUVs - Begoña Ugarte-Uribe, Kushal Kumar Das and Ana J. García-Sáez
Chapter 22 Shining light on membranes - Rosangela Itri, Carlos M. Marques and Mauricio S. Baptista
Chapter 23 Protein-membrane interactions - Eva M Schmid and Daniel A Fletcher
Chapter 24 Effects of antimicrobial peptides and detergents on GUVs - Karin A. Riske
Chapter 25 Lipid-polymer interactions: effect on GUVs shapes and behavior - Brigitte Pépin-Donat, François Quemeneur and Clément Campillo
Part V: GUVs as complex membrane containers
Chapter 26 Polymersomes - Praful Nair, David Christian and Dennis E. Discher
Chapter 27 Giant hybrid polymer/lipid vesicles - Thi Phuong Tuyen Dao, Khalid Ferji, Fabio Fernandes, Manuel Prieto, Sébastien Lecommandoux, Emmanuel Ibarboure, Olivier Sandre and Jean-François Le Meins
Chapter 28 Giant unilamellar vesicles: from protocell models to the construction of minimal cells - Masayuki Imai and Peter Walde
Chapter 29 Encapsulation of aqueous two-phase systems and gels within giant lipid vesicles - Allyson M. Marianelli and Christine D. Keating
Chapter 30 Droplet-supported giant lipid vesicles as compartments for synthetic biology - Johannes P. Frohnmayer, Marian Weiss, Lucia T. Benk, Jan-Willi Janiesch, Barbara Haller, Rafael B. Lira, Rumiana Dimova, Ilia Plazman and Joachim P. Spatz
Appendices
Appendix 1 List of lipids and physical constants of lipid bilayers
Appendix 2 List of membrane dyes and fluorescent groups conjugated to lipids
Appendix 3 List of detergents
Appendix 4 List of water-soluble dyes or their fluorescent groups and their structures