Exploring the private lives of lipid membranes in single cells and whole organisms

Datum

23.05.2019

Zeit

16:00 - 17:00

Sprecher

Dr. Itay Budin

Zugehörigkeit

University of California, Berkeley

Sprache

en

Hauptthema

Biologie

Andere Themen

Biologie, Medizin

Host

Prof. James Saenz

Beschreibung

AbstractBiological systems have evolved a tremendous diversity of lipid components in order to tune the physicochemical properties of their cell membranes. Understanding the functional roles for different lipid species remains a challenge, however, because of limited tools for manipulating membrane composition in vivo. I will present my recent efforts to use a combination of engineering and biophysical approaches to investigate lipid biology in living cells. I will first show how metabolic engineering of lipid biosynthesis has uncovered physiological roles for membrane composition and led to the development of a new quantitative model for cellular respiration. I will then present recent data on ways in which the lipid composition in a dietary microbe (yeast) influences function in an animal model organism (the fruit fly).

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