10th iCeMS Seminar - Prof. Wonhwa Cho

Membrane lipids mediate and regulate a plethora of cellular processes, including cell signaling and membrane trafficking, but the real-time monitoring and quantification of diverse signaling lipids has been hampered by the lack of sensitive and specific probes and analytical methods. This talk will present newly developed lipid sensors, lipid dyes, lipid manipulation tools and fluorescence techniques that allows real-time quantitative monitoring of spatiotemporal dynamics of various lipids, including diacylglycerol, PtdIns(4,5)P2, and PtdIns(3,4,5)P3, and integration of lipid dynamics with downstream signaling networks.

Lecturer	Prof. Wonhwa Cho Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Chemical Biology Department of Chemistry University of Illinois at Chicago
Title	Spatiotemporal dynamics of signaling lipids and networks
Date/Time	Monday, December 15, 2008 / 16:00-17:00 * Refreshments will be served from 15:40. Please come a little earlier before the seminar.
Venue	Roof Terrace Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, 5F of the East Building (140 KB)
Flyer	PDF (98 KB)
Contact	Aki Kusumi at akusumi@frontier.kyoto-u.ac.jp Fax: 751-4113
Held by	iCeMS (Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences), Kyoto University The Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University Membrane Mechanisms Project, ICOPR-JST