Departmental seminar on 13th April 2022
This time we have a habilitation lecture of RNDr. Radek Šachl, Ph.D. form the J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, Czech Academy of Sciences. The topic of his lecture is Nanoscale organization of lipid membranes.
Biochemical experiments performed more than 20 years ago suggested that plasma membranes of living cells are compartmentalized into small submicroscopic structures (nanodomains) having potentially relevant biological functions. Although this hypothesis has stimulated intensive research in many scientific disciplines, structural features of these nanodomains as well as their importance for the function of biological membranes remain elusive. What exactly are these nanodomains? And do they still exist in 2022?
In his habilitation lecture, Dr. Šachl will look for answers to these and other fundamental questions of membrane biophysics by introducing a powerful fluorescence microscopy technique MC-FRET developed in his laboratory. The speaker will show that this technique enabled characterization of various types of membrane nanodomains with unprecedent detail and significantly contributed to the current understanding of lipid nanodomains that are formed in simplified models of cellular membranes.
The seminar will take place in the lecture hall CH3 in person.
The online option remains available only on special request (e.g., for colleagues who are ill/injured or have any other important reason for which they cannot come).
