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SUMMARY:EPFL BioE Talks SERIES  "Small Changes – Big Impact? How Lipid D
 iversity Affects Signaling"
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DTEND:20220523T170000
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DESCRIPTION:Milena Schuhmacher\, Ph.D.\, Max Planck Institute of Molecular
  Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG)\, Dresden (D)\nWEEKLY EPFL BIOE TALKS
  SERIES\n\nAbstract:\nLipids are essential for numerous cellular functio
 ns and signaling processes. However\, they are understudied compared t
 o other biological molecules such as proteins mainly due to a lack of a
 ppropriate methodology. Compared to proteins\, it is very difficult to int
 roduce perturbations such as concentration changes and it is further very 
 challenging to visualize lipids especially in a cellular context. This ha
 s mainly to do with both the size and also the chemical diversity of lipid
 s. Chemical biology approaches such as the introduction of photolabile moi
 eties\, photocrosslinking- and click chemistry-groups offer the possibilit
 y to fill this methodological gap and in particular to address biological 
 questions on the level of individual lipid species. Using diacylglycerols 
 as an exemplary lipid class\, we employed such an approach to understand h
 ow individual lipid species can exert a specific function in the cell and 
 how minor structural differences can influence lipid dynamics in the plasm
 a membrane.\n\nBio:\n2020 to present | Postdoctoral researcher (biological
  chemistry) \, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
 : Dresden (D)\n2015 to 2020 | PhD (chemical biology)\, Max Planck Institut
 e of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics: Dresden (D)\n2012 to 2015 | Mast
 er (Chemistry)\, Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg (D)\n2008 to 2012 
 | Bachelor (Chemistry)\, Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg (D). \n\n
 \n\nZoom link (with one-time registration for the whole series) for attend
 ing remotely: https://go.epfl.ch/EPFLBioETalks\n\n\n\nInstructions for 1st
 -year Ph.D. students who are under EDBB’s mandatory seminar attendance r
 ule:\nPlease make sure to\n\n	send D. Reinhard a note before noon on semin
 ar day\, informing that you plan to attend the talk online\, and\n	be sign
 ed in on Zoom with a recognizable user name (not a pseudonym making it dif
 ficult or impossible to be identified).\n
LOCATION:via Zoom web-streaming only https://go.epfl.ch/EPFLBioETalks http
 s://go.epfl.ch/EPFLBioETalks
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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