Cellular Mechanisms Driven by Liquid Phase Separation

Liquid phase separation is emerging as a common biophysical basis underlying many important cellular functions. This conference will bring together scientists from soft matter polymer physics, molecular “un”-structural biologists, and biologists working in cell, developmental and neurobiology to increase the awareness for how important phase separation is for our understanding of many biological processes to explore the large repertoire of new tools generated by other disciplines that are ripe to be applied to complex problems related to phase separation to close the gap in human potential and transdisciplinary training to tackle the role of phase separation in biology

Topics: Liquid compartments in the cell, Molecular mechanisms of phase separation, Phase separation, a polymer physics perspective, Phase separation in developmental biology and non-linear signalling, The pathological face of phase separation, Protein structure in the condensed state, Phase separation in neurobiology