Hot Topics in Bionanoscience ('Meet-the-speaker')
Course description: Speakers from all over the world are invited to present pedagogical introductions to their field with an emphasis on basic concepts. Apart from an introductory lecture, the participants of this course will have an additional discussion with the invited speaker. During that extra hour, they will discuss a recent paper and the holy grails of the field.
The first hour is a lecture and open for everyone to attend (in this case this BN seminar at 12:30-14:00h, title tba). The second hour is reserved as a discussion hour with the lecturer for the registered class of PhD students and postdocs.
Audience: Registered PhD students and postdocs (see registration form below, opening Monday of that week).
Credits: Those participants who attended (pro-actively) two Hot Topics sessions will be awarded 1 Graduate School Credit (GSC). Thus this session will 'count' for 0.5 GSC.
Preparation: PhD students who have registered for the Hot Topics course need to prepare for the session by reading the articles listed below.
Date: Friday 8 September 2023
Speaker: Jie Xiao (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA).
Jie Xiao is a professor of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Her research focuses on single-molecule biophysics. Her laboratory develops novel single-molecule imaging and labeling tools in single cells to study the structures, functions, and dynamics of macromolecular assemblies. For example, her lab pioneered the use of superresolution imaging and single-molecule tracking in microbiology to study bacterial cell division and transcription.
Host: Marianne Bauer
Required reading: Participants are required to prepare for this session by reading the following papers (also as download-able files below):
- GTPase activity-coupled treadmilling of the bacterial tubulin FtsZ organizes septal cell wall synthesis (Yang et al., Science, 2017);
- A two-track model for the spatiotemporal coordination of bacterial septal cell wall synthesis revealed by single-molecule imaging of FtsW (Yang et al., Nature Microbiology, 2021);
- FtsN maintains active septal cell wall synthesis by forming a processive complex with the septum-specific peptidoglycan synthases in E. coli (Lyu et al., Nature Communications, 2022).
Abstract of the BN seminar: tba
Registration
You can register for the course by filling in the form below. Your place at the course will be confirmed via email before the start of the Hot Topics session. In case there are too many registrants, a selection will be made based on first-come-first-served.