Group:
This afternoon there is a seminar that might be of interest to all the
photosynthetic people. I added it to the calendar as well.
Cesar
Suckjoon Jun, Harvard
"Bacterial chromosomes for theoreticians (and experimentalists)"
Tue Mar 31 3pm – Tue Mar 31 4pm
Lyman 425
Chromosomes are the cornerstone of fundamental processes of any cell,
and harmony between their physical properties and biological functions
is an evolutionary consequence. From physics point of view,
understanding bacterial chromosomes is quite challenging because of
the several lengthscales involved in the basic biological processes,
which often interfere one another [e.g., the size and geometry of the
cell, radius of gyration of the chromosome, persistence length,
supercoiled plectonemes, density correlation length (or the blob
size), Debye screening length, ...alas!]. In fact, many of the simple
questions involving polymers in confinement still remain unsolved. The
purpose of this talk is to illustrate the basic processes of
chromosome segregation in bacteria as a theoretician, and introduce
some of the open theoretical questions for theoreticians (and
experimentalists!)
--
Cesar A. Rodriguez-Rosario, Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard University
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Box#34
12 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA
rodriguez(a)chemistry.harvard.edu
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