TITLE: Microfabrication and x-ray scattering: new tools for studying RNA folding

SPEAKER: Professor Lois Pollack,

TIME: Thursday Oct. 19, 2006 at 4:00 PM

PLACE: George P. Williams, Jr. Lecture Hall, (Olin 101)

Large biological molecules like proteins and RNA, carry out their functions by folding to well-defined three-dimensional structures. We are interested in the physical interactions that direct this self-assembly process. By combining microfabricated flow cells with sychrotron x-ray scattering, we have gained insight into the earliest steps of protein and RNA folding. A recent series of experiments indicates that the critical, first stage of RNA folding is dominated by electrostatic interactions.

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