QLS seminar - Elena RUFEIL FIORI - 15 September 2022 at 14:00 hrs CET

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

Dear All,

On Thursday, 15 September  2022  at 14:00 hrs CET, Elena Rufeil Fiori 
(CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina) will give a 
seminar titled*
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*Structure and dynamics of domains in lipid monolayers *

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Abstract:
A challenging problem in the biophysics of cell membranes is the 
characterization of the lateral organization of their domains. These are 
made up of lipids in an ordered phase and are dispersed in a more 
disordered continuous phase. A widely used experimental model to study 
these systems are the lipid monolayers at the water-air interface. Based 
on these experiments and using Brownian simulations, in this talk we 
will see how the dipolar interaction between domains and the 
polydispersity in sizes affect the structure of monolayers with phase 
coexistence and the dynamics of their domains. We will also present a 
new way to estimate the dipole repulsion directly from the experimental 
results.

The seminar will be held in the *ICTP Common area, second floor, ex 
SISSA building, *via Beirut, 2.

You are all most cordially invited to participate!

Best regards,

Erica

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Erica Sarnataro
Group Secretary
Quantitative Life Sciences
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Trieste,  Italy
Tel. +39-040-2240623
www.ictp.it/research/qls.aspx
e-mail:qls at ictp.it