Physics Graduate Student Seminar with Joe Glichowski on Let’s Get This Bread: Rise of the Yeasts

Wouldn’t it be sick if we had a computational model of cell growth? How would we even begin to approach this question? Well, we know that in order to survive cells must continuously accommodate changing environmental demands. In doing so, a cell’s response must be coordinated between its various levels of operation, e.g., cellular and organelle. At the cellular level, metabolic outputs such as cell size and growth rate may change; at the organellar, structural changes like those in size and number may occur. While these two levels have each been well-explored through a variety of approaches, how they fit into a greater context has been a less popular question. Bro let's be real; you're probably not still reading this, but if you are, I'll be giving away a crochet commission during my talk. My work is centered around the relationship between these two levels, and seeks to answer the question: How does a cell’s organelle network structure affect its ability to produce biomass?