#  Markus Deserno 

 



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 **November 2, 2016** 

 04:15PM - 06:15PM EDT 

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 **MIT 4-163**  



 

 



 

Professor Markus Deserno, Carnegie Mellon University. "The biophysics of lipid membrandes: elasticity meets geometry and biology." Greater Boston Theoretical Chemistry Lecture.Abstract: All living cells have a barrier that separates them from their environment: a thin self-assembled structure called a "lipid bilayer membrane". Eukaryotic cells also have numerous membraneous structures inside themselves to further compartmentalize distinct organelles, such as the cell nucleus or the endoplasmic reticulum. It turns out that biomembranes play important roles in innumerable cellular processes, and that one key to their functional diversity lies in the remarkable elastic properties which they exhibt: lipid bilayers are molecularly thin two dimensional fluids which resists bending, stretching, and lipid tilting in such a way as to communicate forces and information through elasticity and geometry. In my talk, I will discuss some of the fascinating aspects of lipid membrane biophysics, and I will explain in more detail several novel approaches we have developed in my group to probe both the various phenomena and the elastic properties of these amazing structures.



 

 



 

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