Colloquium
Condensates of Charged Macromolecules: Assembly, Dynamics, and Transport
Speaker: Prof. M. Muthukumar (Wilmer D. Barrett Distinguished Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
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Abstract
Many intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) spontaneously form biomolecular condensates which constitute the prolific membrane-less organelles. Considering a few IDPS, we will briefly discuss charge regulation, structure, liquid-liquid phase separation, hierarchical dynamics, and single-molecule electrophoretic mobility. Comparison between theory and experimental results will be briefly mentioned.
Short Biography
Prof. Murugappan Muthukumar received his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics at the University of Chicago. After his postdoctoral fellowship in the Cavendish Laboratory at the Cambridge University, he joined the faculty of Illinois Institute of Technology for a couple of years, and then moved to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he is currently the Wilmer D. Barrett Distinguished Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering. Muthukumar is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and has received the Dillon Medal and the Polymer Physics Prize of the American Physical Society, ACS Polymer Chemistry Award, Chancellor’s Medal of the University of Massachusetts, Gutenberg Lecture Award from the University of Mainz, Mercator Fellow from German Research Foundation, and Marie Curie Senior Fellow from European Union.