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Centre for Modelling Life at the Membrane with AI

CEMERAI brings together membrane biology, proteomics, glycoproteomics, lipidomics, structural biology, simulations, and AI to build predictive, multiscale models of cell membranes.

Research focus

  • Multiscale modelling of erythrocytes and mitochondrial membranes
  • Modelling membrane alterations in response to external stress, drugs, or disease
  • Comparative and predictive modelling of diverse cell membranes
  • Synthetic protein design for diagnostics and therapeutics
  • Generation of predictive AI models to improve drug transport into cells

Scientific themes

The website structure follows the four interconnected themes defined for CEMERAI.

Multiscale modelling of erythrocytes and mitochondrial membranes

Combining glycoproteomics, lipidomics, proteomics, structural biology, structural mass spectrometry, and integrative AI models to create testable cell membrane models.

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Modelling membrane alterations in response to external stress, drugs, or disease

Identifying plasma membrane and mitochondrial remodelling events during pathological, drug-induced, or stress-induced states.

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Comparative and predictive modelling of diverse cell membranes

Building cross-cell-type models to capture conserved and specialised principles of membrane organisation for diagnostics and rational therapeutic design.

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Synthetic protein design for diagnostics and therapeutics

Using AI tools to develop synthetic binders against key membrane proteins, including glycoproteins with high specificity.

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Generation of predictive AI models to improve drug transport into cells

Here we will develop generative and predictive AI models to improve our understanding of drug transport into cells.

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Consortium

CEMERAI brings together researchers from Stockholm University, the University of Gothenburg, and Umeå University.

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