Statistical Mechanics of Biological Cooperativity

Session

Friday afternoon

Friday afternoon

24 May 2013, 16:00

Ferry Stockholm-Mariehamn and Hotel Arkipelag, Mariehamn, Åland

264. A space odyssey in cell signaling

Prof. Pieter Rein ten Wolde (AMOLF)

24/05/2013, 16:30

Experiments in recent years have vividly demonstrated that the membrane is a highly heterogenous environment. A key example is the partitioning or clustering of proteins via lipid domain formation or cytoskeleton-induced corralling. In this talk, I will show using theory and computer simulations that protein clustering can enhance biochemical information transmission by removing...

265. Competing endogenous RNAs: A novel microRNA-based mechanism of gene regulation

Prof. Andrea Pagnani (Human Genetics Foundation (HuGeF))

24/05/2013, 17:15

It has been recently proposed that competitive endogenous RNAs (ceRNAs) sequester microRNAs to regulate mRNA transcripts containing common microRNA recognition elements (MREs). The ceRNA hypothesis stems from the observation that RNA transcripts can communicate with each other through a recently discovered mechanism. MicroRNAs are tiny snippets of RNA (~22nt long) which negatively...