Publications

Chenjing Yang, Julian Menge, Nene Zhvania, Miao Yu, Hualiang Yang, Dong Chen, Zongli Zheng, David A. Weitz, and Kevin Jahnke, "Engineering asymmetric nanoscale vesicles for mRNA and protein delivery to cells," Advanced Functional Materials 35, 1-10 (2025).

S. Giaveri, Z. Abil, S. Kohyama, M. Fu, A. Levrier, K. Adamala, W. Chinantuya, C. Dekker, N. Deng, J. Fredens, K. Hagino, K. Jahnke, X. Li, A. B. Lindner, C. Liu, S. Majumder, V. Noireaux, P. Schwille, and I. N. Westensee, "Building a synthetic cell together," Nature Communications 16 (1), 1-6 (2025).

Chunhuan Liu, Yuchun Liu, Changhu Xue, Cheng Yang, David A. Weitz, and Kevin Jahnke, "Engineering liposomes with cell membrane proteins to disrupt melanosome transfer between cells," ACS Nano 19 (25), 22988-23000 (2025).

Kevin Jahnke, Nina Struve, Daniel Hofmann, Martin Julius Gote, Margund Bach, Malte Kriegs, and Michael Hausmann, "Formation of EGFRwt/EGFRvIII homo- and hetero-dimers in glioblastoma cells as detected by single molecule localization microscopy," Nanoscale 16, 15240-15255 (2024).

Kevin Jahnke, Marko Pavlovic, Wentao Xu, Anqi Chen, Tuomas P. J. Knowles, Laura R. Arriaga, and David A. Weitz, "Polysaccharide functionalization reduces lipid vesicle stiffness," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 121 (22), 1-7 (2024).

Kevin Jahnke, Maja Illig, Marlene Scheffold, Mai Phuong Tran, Ulrike Mersdorf, and Kerstin Göpfrich, "DNA origami signaling units transduce chemical and mechanical signals in synthetic cells," Advanced Functional Materials 34 (20), 1-10 (2024).

Kevin Jahnke and Oskar Staufer, "Membranes on the move: The functional role of the extracellular vesicle membrane for contact-dependent cellular signalling," Journal of extracellular vesicles 13 (4), 1-10 (2024).

Maja Illig, Kevin Jahnke, Lukas P. Weise, Marlene Scheffold, Ulrike Mersdorf, Hauke Drechsler, Yixin Zhang, Stefan Diez, Jan Kierfeld, and Kerstin Göpfrich, "Triggered contraction of self-assembled, micron-scale DNA nanotube rings," Nature Communications 15 (1), 1-12 (2024).

Kevin Jahnke and Kerstin Göpfrich, "Engineering DNA-based cytoskeletons for synthetic cells," Interface Focus 13 (5), 1-10 (2023).

Juanjuan Yang, Kevin Jahnke, Ling Xin, Xinxin Jing, Pengfei Zhan, Andreas Peil, Alessandra Griffo, Marko Škugor, Donglei Yang, Sisi Fan, Kerstin Göpfrich, Hao Yan, Pengfei Wang, and Na Liu, "Modulating lipid membrane morphology by dynamic DNA origami networks," Nano Letters 23 (14), 6330-6336 (2023).

Kevin Jahnke, Maja Illig, Marlene Scheffold, Mai P. Tran, Ulrike Mersdorf, and Kerstin Göpfrich, "DNA origami signaling units transduce chemical and mechanical signals in synthetic cells," Advanced Functional Materials , 1-10 (2023).

Mai P. Tran, Rakesh Chatterjee, Yannik Dreher, Julius Fichtler, Kevin Jahnke, Lennart Hilbert, Vasily Zaburdaev, and Kerstin Göpfrich, "A DNA segregation module for synthetic cells," Small 19 (13), 1-10 (2023).

Yannik Dreher, Julius Fichtler, Christoph Karfusehr, Kevin Jahnke, Yang Xin, Adrian Keller, and Kerstin Göpfrich, "Genotype-phenotype mapping with polyominos made from DNA origami tiles," Biophysical Journal 121 (24), 4840-4848 (2022).

Alexander M. Bergmann, Carsten Donau, Fabian Späth, Kevin Jahnke, Kerstin Göpfrich, and Job Boekhoven, "Evolution and single-droplet analysis of fuel-driven compartments by droplet-based microfluidics," Angewandte Chemie International Edition 61 (32), 1-8 (2022).

Pengfei Zhan, Kevin Jahnke, Na Liu, and Kerstin Göpfrich, "Functional DNA-based cytoskeletons for synthetic cells," Nature Chemistry 14 (8), 958-963 (2022).

Tobias Walther, Kevin Jahnke, Tobias Abele, and Kerstin Göpfrich, "Printing and erasing of DNA-based photoresists inside synthetic cells," Advanced Functional Materials 32 (25), 1-9 (2022).

Kevin Jahnke, Pengfei Zhan, Pengfei, Na Liu, and Kerstin Gopfrich, "Bottom-up assembly of functional DNA-based cytoskeletons for synthetic cells," Biophysical Journal (Annual Meeting Abstracts) 121 (3), 151A-151A (2022).

Tobias Abele, Tobias Messer, Kevin Jahnke, Marc Hippler, Martin Bastmeyer, Martin Wegener, and Kerstin Göpfrich, "Two-photon 3D laser printing inside synthetic cells," Advanced Materials 34 (6), 1-8 (2022).

Andreas Schoenit, Cristina Lo Giudice, Nina Hahnen, Dirk Ollech, Kevin Jahnke, Kerstin Göpfrich, and Elisabetta Ada Cavalcanti-Adam, "Tuning epithelial cell–cell adhesion and collective dynamics with functional DNA-E-Cadherin hybrid linkers," Nano Letters 22 (1), 302-310 (2022).

Kevin Jahnke, Vanessa Huth, Ulrike Mersdorf, Na Liu, and Kerstin Göpfrich, "Bottom-up assembly of synthetic cells with a DNA cytoskeleton," ACS Nano 16 (5), 7233-7241 (2022).

Kevin Jahnke, Stefan J. Maurer, Cornelia Weber, Jochen Estebano Hernandez Bücher, Andreas Schoenit, Elisa D´Este, Elisabetta Ada Cavalcanti-Adam, and Kerstin Göpfrich, "Actomyosin-assisted pulling of lipid nanotubes from lipid vesicles and cells," Nano Letters 22 (3), 1145-1150 (2022).

Oskar Staufer, Jacqueline A De Lora, Eleonora Bailoni, Alisina Bazrafshan, Amelie S Benk, Kevin Jahnke, Zachary A Manzer, Lado Otrin, Telmo Díez Pérez, Judee Sharon, Jan Steinkühler, Katarzyna P Adamala, Bruna Jacobson, Marileen Dogterom, Kerstin Göpfrich, Darko Stefanovic, Susan R Atlas, Michael Grunze, Matthew R Lakin, Andrew P Shreve, Joachim P Spatz, and Gabriel P López, "Science Forum: Building a community to engineer synthetic cells and organelles from the bottom-up," eLife 10, 1-10 (2021).

Félix Lussier, Martin Schröter, Nicolas J. Diercks, Kevin Jahnke, Cornelia Weber, Christoph Frey, Ilia Platzman, and Joachim P. Spatz, "pH-triggered assembly of endomembrane multicompartments in synthetic cells," ACS Synthetic Biology 11, 366-382 (2021).

Yannik Dreher, Kevin Jahnke, Martin Schröter, and Kerstin Göpfrich, "Light-triggered cargo loading and division of DNA-containing giant unilamellar lipid vesicles," Nano Letters 21 (14), 5952-5957 (2021).

Kevin Jahnke, Noah Ritzmann, Julius Fichtler, Anna Nitschke, Yannik Dreher, Tobias Abele, Götz Hofhaus, Ilia Platzman, Rasmus R. Schröder, Daniel J. Müller, Joachim P. Spatz, and Kerstin Göpfrich, "Proton gradients from light-harvesting E. coli control DNA assemblies for synthetic cells," Nature Communications 12, 1-9 (2021).

Yannik Dreher, Kevin Jahnke, Elizaveta Bobkova, Joachim P. Spatz, and Kerstin Göpfrich, "Division and regrowth of phase-separated giant unilamellar vesicles," Angewandte Chemie International Edition 60 (19), 10661-10669 (2021).

Kevin Jahnke, Helmut Grubmüller, Maxim Igaev, and Kerstin Göpfrich, "Choice of fluorophore affects dynamic DNA nanostructures," Nucleic Acids Research (London) 49 (7), 4186-4195 (2021).

Silvia Antona, Tobias Abele, Kevin Jahnke, Yannik Dreher, Kerstin Göpfrich, Ilia Platzman, and Joachim P. Spatz, "Droplet‐based combinatorial assay for cell cytotoxicity and cytokine release evaluation," Advanced Functional Materials 30 (46), 1-9 (2020).

Kevin Jahnke, Noah Ritzmann, Julius Fichtler, Anna Nitschke, Yannik Dreher, Tobias Abele, Götz Hofhaus, Ilia Platzman, Rasmus Schröder, Daniel J. Müller, Joachim P. Spatz, and Kerstin Göpfrich, "Actuation of synthetic cells with proton gradients generated by light-harvesting E. coli," In Review , 1-26 (2020).

Kevin Jahnke, Marian Weiss, Cornelia Weber, Ilia Platzman, Kerstin Göpfrich, and Joachim P. Spatz, "DNA nanotechnology: engineering light‐responsive contractile actomyosin networks with DNA nanotechnology (Adv. Biosys. 9/2020)," Advanced Biosystems 4 (9), 1-1 (2020).

Kevin Jahnke, Marian Weiss, Cornelia Weber, Ilia Platzman, Kerstin Göpfrich, and Joachim P. Spatz, "Engineering light‐responsive contractile actomyosin networks with DNA nanotechnology," Advanced Biosystems 4 (9), 1-9 (2020).

Kevin Jahnke, Marian Weiss, Christoph Frey, Silvia Antona, Jan-Willi Janiesch, Ilia Platzman, Kerstin Göpfrich, and Joachim P. Spatz, "Programmable functionalization of surfactant‐stabilized microfluidic droplets via DNA‐tags," Advanced Functional Materials 29 (23), 1-8 (2019).

Michael Schaich, Jehangir Cama, Kareem Al Nahas, Diana Sobota, Hannah Sleath, Kevin Jahnke, Siddharth Deshpande, Cees Dekker, and Ulrich F. Keyser, "An integrated microfluidic platform for quantifying drug permeation across biomimetic vesicle membranes," Molecular Pharmaceutics 16 (6), 2494-2501 (2019).

K. Jahnke, C. Yang, and D.A. Weitz, "Asymmetric liposomes for drug delivery and other applications", (2025).

K. Jahnke and D.A. Weitz, "Glycolipid functionalized liposomes or other vesicles for use as drug delivery systems or other applications", (2025).

Kerstin Göpfrich, Tobias Abele, Kevin Jahnke, Tobias Walther, Martin Wegener, Tobias Messer, and Marc Hippler, "Method for non-invasive production of defined structures inside compartements and compartment", (2023).