Seminar: "(Statistical) Mechanics of protein-DNA interactions, chromosomes, and cell nuclei"

Speaker

Prof. John Marko, Molecular of Biosciences @ Northwestern University, Host: Omar Saleh

Date and Location

Wednesday November 02, 2016 11:00am to 12:00pm
Elings 1601

Abstract

Forces are essential to organization of all structures within cells. I will discuss the use of force as a tool to analyze supramolecular complexes of proteins and DNA, at the levels of individual biomolecular interactions, whole chromosomes, and whole cell nuclei.