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Speaker: Carlos Biaz

Picosecond Interfacial Dynamics in Crowded Lipid Membranes Probed with Ultrafast 2D Infrared Spectroscopy

Lipid membranes are much more than barriers between cell compartments, they are integral components of the cell involved in key functions such as signaling, transport, and sensing. Membranes are composed of hundreds of different lipid species and contain thousands of proteins. The biophysical implications of membrane heterogeneity are not fully understood. Our group uses 2D IR spectroscopy to probe the local hydrogen-bond dynamics at the lipid-water interface. [more]
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