2021 Summer School in Protocell Models

Session

5 Jul 2021, 15:00

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

Conveners

Plenary: Simon Alberti: "Phase separation as an organizing principle in biology and disease"

• Nicolas Martin ()

Plenary: Sheref Mansy: "Models of early and late protocells"

• Nicolas Martin ()

Plenary: Stephen Mann: "Programmable behaviour in synthetic protobiology"

• There are no conveners in this block

Contribution list Timetable

2. Models of early and late protocells

05/07/2021, 15:00

The ease with which vesicles form from chemically simple amphiphiles argues for their existence on the prebiotic Earth. Prebiotic vesicles could have aided Darwinian evolution, in part, by protecting against parasitic sequences. However, to do so, these vesicles would have needed to be able to grow and divide in the absence of highly evolved machinery. Over the years, several such mechanisms...