Seminar: Toward understanding the nuclear membrane function in plants

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Date/Time:Tuesday, 07 May 2024 from 1:00 pm to 1:50 pm
Location:1414 Molecular Biology
Cost:Free
Contact:Danise Jones
Phone:515-294-2687
Channel:Research
Categories:Lectures
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Join this Genetics, Development and Cell Biology seminar to hear from Dr. Yangnan Gu, assistant professor in plant and microbial biology at the University of California - Berkeley, discuss research progress in defining the protein landscape of nuclear membranes in plants and in-depth functional investigation of newly identified proteins.

Full description: The nuclear envelope (NE) represents the hallmark of eukaryotic cells and evolved as an essential protective membrane system as well as a key platform for nuclear signaling, genome organization, cargo transport, mechanosensation, and etc. Despite its importance, the NE composition has been poorly understood in eukaryotic species beyond humans and yeasts. In this talk, I will share our recent progresses in defining the protein landscape of nuclear membrane in plants and in-depth functional investigation of newly identified NE proteins. In addition, I will talk about how the nucleocytoplasmic transport receptors, proteins that carry macromolecules to cross the NE, function as a critical plant immune regulator via modulating biomolecular condensation and protein phase separation of their cargo, representing an ancient function that predates the evolution of eukaryotes.