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Cells contain billions of molecular machines that drive processes such as directed transport and processing of the genetic information. The talk will address theoretical approaches to the mechanisms of such machines and to their cellular economy. I will discuss how the stochastic dynamics of several molecular motors can be coordinated by mechanical forces through a tug-of-war mechanism and how a global picture of the machines that process the genetic information (RNA polymerases and ribosomes) reveals the different economic principles that underlie their use in a bacterial cell.

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Dr. Stefan Klumpp, MPI for Colloids and Interfaces
Seminarraum Theoretische Physik
Contact: not specified