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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik

BP 11: Poster Session I

BP 11.61: Poster

Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 12:30–15:30, P1

Modeling of protein condensates — •Kathrin Hertäg and Joshua Robinson — ITP4, Stuttgart, Deutschland

Phase separation in systems driven away from thermal equilibrium has recently attracted substantial interest, in particular for motile active matter and protein condensates in cells. The latter are characterized by a finite size that can be stable in vivo over the whole cell cycle while in vitro the same proteins undergo conventional phase separation that coarsens towards a fully phase-separated state. The physical processes that control the condensate size are largely unexplored. Here we apply methods from active liquid theory to study and assess possible mechanisms.