Structure and Flexibility of Biomembranes: X-ray scattering using a
non-crystallographic method
by
Prof.John F. Nagle(Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)
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Europe/Stockholm
Klein Auditorium
Klein Auditorium
Description
Most natural biomembranes are too fluid and flexible to
have traditional crystallographic structures. My group has developed a
method based on liquid crystal physics that provides appropriately detailed
information from diffuse x-ray synchrotron scattering. Recent results for
the effect of cholesterol in membranes will be presented.
(http://lipid.phys.cmu.edu).
