EASY SCIENCE CONFERENCE: Travelling inside a cell, avoiding traffic jams and accidents.

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Traveling inside a cell: avoiding traffic jams and accidents

What are the requirements for a person traveling from Barcelona to New York City?  This requires arriving at the airport, a ticket, visa and a plane for transport to New York City. 

Inside every cell of our body, the same events take place continuously. The passengers are called proteins and the transport carriers are called vesicles. Proteins are packed at one station into vesicles, which transport them to their correct destination. Correct trafficking of proteins is essential for cell survival and the normal body function. 

An understanding of how proteins travel within a cell is therefore of fundamental importance and, the CRG researcher Vivek Malhotra, will present some examples. He will discuss the current understanding of how proteins travel inside a cell.

Date: 16th February 2010

Time: 7 pm

Place: Auditori de La Pedrera de Caixa Catalunya. Passeig de Gràcia, 92, Barcelona.

Limited capacity 150 people.