2021 Summer School in Protocell Models

Session

5 Jul 2021, 13:00

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

Conveners

Tutorial: Peter Walde: "On the formation and properties of lipid vesicles”

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Tutorial: Kepa Ruiz Mirazo: "Compartmentalized aqueous chemistries: modelling the origins of metabolism"

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Tutorial: Image Analysis: Gayathri Nadar & HongKee Moon

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Tutorial: Tom Robinson: "Microfluidics: principles and applications for synthetic compartments"

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Tutorial: Nicolas Martin: "Basic principles of coacervates as bio-inspired compartments"

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Tutorial: Christoph Weber: "Physics of active emulsions and their potential role at the origin of life"

• Christoph Weber (MPI-PKS)

Tutorial: Jan Peychl: "Basic concepts of light microscopy - Tips for successful imaging experiments""

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Description

90 minute Tutorial

Contribution list Timetable

1. On the formation and properties of lipid vesicles

07/07/2021, 17:30

Lipid vesicles (also called liposomes) are spherical polymolecular assemblies that form in aqueous solution upon dispersing a bilayer-forming amphiphile (for example 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine, DOPC), or mixtures of amphiphiles that stabilized a bilayer (for example oleic acid and sodium oleate). Some of the phase diagrams of bilayer forming amphiphiles will be discussed for...

4. Compartmentalized aqueous chemistries: modelling the origins of metabolism

08/07/2021, 13:00

In the introductory part of my lecture, the relevance of coupling compartmentalization phenomena and chemical reactions in aqueous conditions will be acknowledged, in particular in the context of addressing the problem of the origins of metabolism. The concept of ‘minimal metabolism’, suggested to play a key role at the interface between physics/chemistry and biology, will also be discussed...