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SUMMARY:How cells get to be the right size and put things at the right pla
 ce inside them - Martin Howard\, John Innes Centre
DTSTART:20150225T141500Z
DTEND:20150225T151500Z
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CONTACT:Lucy Colwell
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will discuss how fission yeast cells control th
 eir size\, a fundamental question in cell biology. I will propose a theory
  that explains how this can be performed via an effective measurement of t
 he plasma membrane surface area. Predictions from this theory are then suc
 cessfully tested in the lab. I will then more briefly discuss a second pro
 blem\, how low copy number plasmids in bacteria are equally spaced through
 out the cell\, thereby leading to equal partitioning at cell division. Sur
 prisingly the mechanism at work here may be related to the phenomenon of c
 ell size control. Throughout the talk I will illustrate how highly quantit
 ative approaches can help to accelerate the discovery of fundamental biolo
 gical mechanism.
LOCATION:Department of Chemistry\, Cambridge\, Pfizer lecture theatre
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