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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik

BP 21: Poster IIIb

BP 21.31: Poster

Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 11:00–14:30, Poster C

Role of Phase Separation in RNA co-evolution — •Samuel Santhosh Gomez, Gaetano Granatelli, and Christoph Weber — University of Augsburg, Augsburg, Germany

The PhD project, called 'Client Scaffold Model for Compartmentalized RNA Evolution', aims to create a theoretical framework that can account for RNA strand replication. From which, to then to study how compartments formed by scaffold phase-separation may be able to play a role in providing micro environments that might allow for the possibility for co-evolution of RNA replicators with RNA replicator parasites. The motivation for such a theoretical model comes from host-parasite RNA replicator experiments that suggested that droplet compartments might be able to provide an environment for co-evolution which is not possible in the well mixed homogeneous case.

Keywords: evolution; co-evolution; replicaiton; RNA; parasite