Friday Lecture Series

Lipids Organizing Cell Membranes

Kai Simons, M.D., research group leader and director emeritus,

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

February 17, 2012

3:45 p.m.-5:00 p.m. (Refreshments, 3:15 p.m., Abby Lounge)

Caspary Auditorium

Recommended Readings:

Coskun, U., and K. Simons. 2011. Cell membranes: The lipid perspective. Structure 19, (11): 1543-1548

Levental, I., M. Grzybek, and K. Simons. 2010. Greasing their way: Lipid modifications determine protein association with membrane rafts. Biochemistry 49, (30): 6305-6316

Lingwood, D., and K. Simons. 2010. Lipid rafts as a membrane-organizing principle. Science 327, (5961): 46-50

Shevchenko, A., and K. Simons. 2010. Lipidomics: Coming to grips with lipid diversity. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 11, (8): 593-598

Simons, K., and M. J. Gerl. 2010. Revitalizing membrane rafts: New tools and insights. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 11, (10): 688-699