Thursday, November 5, 2020
7:30 PM -
8:30 PM EST
Public lecture
When you look at living cells under a microscope, you see many fascinating structures. In the last ten years, it has become clear that many of these “structures” really are liquid droplets, separated from their surroundings in the much same way that oil and water separate. This discovery has overturned a century of thinking about the internal organization of cells.
With science and medicine currently at the center of national conversation, join leading researchers Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle (The Graduate Center, ASRC) and Stephanie Weber (McGill University) as they discuss a revolution taking place in cell biology. Elbaum-Garfinkle and Weber work at the forefront of the field making radical new discoveries about the makeup of living cells, such as those in the human body, revising two centuries of scientific thinking. Their work shows that cells are made up of separate liquid droplets interacting like oil and water, rather than having solid membranes.
Join us to learn about the impact this important research could have on new drugs for cancer, ALS, and COVID-19.
Shana Elbaum-Garfinkle is assistant professor of biochemistry at The Graduate Center and in the Structural Biology Initiative of the Advanced Science Research Center, CUNY; Stephanie Weber is assistant professor of biology and physics at McGill University.
This event is sponsored in part by the Center for the Physics of Biological Function, a joint effort of The Graduate Center, CUNY and Princeton University.