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SUMMARY:Active Forces and Flow for Cellular Polarization - Stephan Grill\,
  MPI CBG\, Dresden
DTSTART:20100609T103000Z
DTEND:20100609T113000Z
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CONTACT:Duncan Simpson
DESCRIPTION:Active material flow of the contractile actomyosin cortex is i
 mportant for many cell biological processes. Here I report on the physical
  mechanisms that underlie coordinated and large-scale flow of the cellular
  cortex in Caenorhabditis elegans embryos\, which we have investigated in 
 a combined experimental and theoretical approach. I also discuss how corti
 cal flow switches a set of PAR proteins to obtain a non-homogeneous distri
 bution\, which polarizes the cell.  Our results reveal how cellular mechan
 ics and biochemistry interact to establish cellular polarity.
LOCATION:Part 2 Seminar Room\, Department of Genetics
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