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SUMMARY:Transport into the cell: How many ways to get in? - Vassilis Bitsi
 kas\, MCR Laboratory of Molecular Biology\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20140508T121000Z
DTEND:20140508T130000Z
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CONTACT:Felice Torrisi
DESCRIPTION:Membranes are fundamental to life. They divide the cell into f
 unctional compartments and provide the correct morphology for interaction 
 with enzymes.  \nIn order to survive\, cells must take up nutrients and ex
 clude harmful constituents present in their environment. Membrane molecule
 s to be transported into the cell\, get concentrated in small membrane inv
 aginations at the cell surface that eventually pinch off\, to form free-fl
 oating vesicles within the cell. This process is called endocytosis.\nSinc
 e the mid-nineties there has been some consensus that mammalian cells have
  several different mechanisms to carry out the process of endocytosis. Nev
 ertheless\, little mechanistic insight has been gained over the last two d
 ecades for most of these pathways.\nDuring this talk I will present some r
 ecent findings that directly contradict this widely accepted view and I wi
 ll discuss the experimental limitations that have led the scientific commu
 nity to the opposite conclusions.\n
LOCATION:1 Newnham Terrace\, Darwin College
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