Speaker: Professor Buzz Baum is a cell biologist interested in the way cells shape themselves now and how this has changed over the course of the history of life on earth. Buzz is now working at the MRC's Laboratory of Molecular Biology Cambridge in UK, where his team is exploring the biology of TACK and Asgard archaea during cell growth and division, and is using archaea to study the evolution of complex cells.

Date: August 8, 2024

Time: 10:00-

Location: The First Conference Room, No.304-306, Building N1, Qingdao Campus, Shandong University

Sponsor: State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University

Abstract:

In this "EMBO Global Lecture" we will explore the evolution of the eukaryotic cell. As we will see, much of the machinery, including actin, tubulin and ESCRT-III, has its origins in archaea. Building on this, we will see how archaea can be used as a simple model with which to better understand the evolution, structure and function of ESCRT-III polymers in membrane remodelling and cytokinesis.

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