Cell-size control and homeostasis: lessons from bacteria
Event details
| Date | 25.06.2019 |
| Hour | 12:15 |
| Speaker | Suckjoon Jun, University of California San Diego |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Bacterial physiology is a branch of biology that aims to understand overarching principles underlying cellular reproduction. Many important issues in bacterial physiology are inherently quantitative, and major contributors to the field have often brought together tools and ways of thinking from multiple disciplines, going back to Monod in the 1940s and Maaløe in the 1950s. In the past several years, we have finally been able to answer some of the long-standing questions. In this talk, I will present the summary of our current understanding on the following three questions: (1) What determines the cell size in a given growth condition? (2) How do cells correct their size deviations and return to a normal size? (3) How does size control and homeostasis work at the mechanistic level?
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
Organizer
- Neeraj Dhar