Abstract: When we schematise a cell on the white board, we don’t need to put a legend for the lay cell biologist to recognise the main organelles. This is because the membrane of many organelles has a well-defined shape (e.g. Golgi apparatus, mitochondria). In this talk, I will show that membrane shape is also cellular information. Some specific proteins have the ability to sense membrane curvature or surface tension, which enable the organisation in time and in space of complex reactions in the cell.
Bruno Antony, Ph.D. – Team leader at IPMC
Bruno has a long term interest on how proteins regulate the membrane curvature to produce vesicles involved in intracellular transport.