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Calendar of Physics Talks Vienna
| Thermodynamic consistent theory of crosslinkers on biological filaments |
| Speaker: | Cédrik Barutel (TU Wien, IAP, FB Biophysik) |
| Abstract: | The cytoskeleton is the intracellular structure that enables cellular motion and essential cell-mechanical processes like cell division and chromosome segregation. It consists of filaments (actin, microtubules, intermediate filaments) that are connected by motor proteins and passive crosslinkers. Biologists and biochemists have uncovered and characterized many of the constituent proteins of the cytoskeleton. However, we are still lacking a deeper understanding of how the collective behavior of these parts working together emerges.
We know that filaments and crosslinkers organize into a dynamic network that keeps itself out of thermodynamic equilibrium by consuming chemical energy from the cellular environment. I aim to develop an out-of-equilibrium thermodynamic theory for understanding the forces that crosslinking proteins exert collectively between two filaments that they couple. More |
| Date: | Tue, 20.05.2025 |
| Time: | 16:00 |
| Location: | TU Wien, Institut für Angewandte Physik, E134 1040 Wien, Wiedner HauptstraÃe 8-10 Yellow Tower âBâ, 5th floor, SEM.R. DB gelb 05 B |
| Contact: | Univ.Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schütz |
| Speaker: | Kieran Flanagan (University of Manchester) |
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| Date: | Fri, 23.05.2025 |
| Time: | 10:00 |
| Duration: | 45 min |
| Location: | Helmut Rauch Hörsaal ATI |
| Contact: | Tim Langen |
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