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SUMMARY:Postponed: How Mechanics Made Archaea Multicellular - Postponed: A
 lex Bisson\, Department of Biology\, Indiana University 
DTSTART:20260209T143000Z
DTEND:20260209T153000Z
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CONTACT:Jia CHEN
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Cells sense and respond to biophysical surroundings 
 by coordinating cellular and molecular structures under evolutionary press
 ure across scales of space and time. How animals and plants leverage the c
 onversion of mechanical forces into biochemical output has been the focus 
 of many developmental fields. However\, the same processes seem to be abse
 nt in apparent simpler prokaryotic cells. To leverage this gap\, our group
  leverages concepts and approaches from evo-devo-cell biology fields to 
 “mechanically soft” archaeal cells. Here\, I will discuss our recent f
 inding around one of the leading hypotheses: together with reading out the
 ir chemical environment\, archaeal cells evolved to sense physical cues to
  build different cell shapes and mediate social behavior within the same a
 nd across different species. Their accurate mechanosensing brings signific
 ant implications for cell cycle regulation\, cytoskeleton dynamics\, and t
 he emergence of a set of complex molecular factors present in eukaryotes\,
  including animal tissue. 
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