New tools for old organelles

• Author(s): Gouw, Marc
• Date: 2015
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/17528
• Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
• Subject(s): Biology; Bioinformatics; Biology; Bioinformatics
• Document Type: Doctoral thesis
• Language: English
• Advisor(s): Leal-Pereira, José; Dias, Mónica Bettencourt
• Contributor(s): RUN

Description

For hundreds of years biologists have studied the naturally occurring diversity in plant and animal species. The invention of the electron microscope in the rst half of the 1900's reveled that cells also can be incredible complex (and often stunningly beautiful). However, despite the fact that the eld of cell biology has existed for over 100 years we still lack a formal understanding of how cells evolve: It is unclear what the extents are in cell and organelle morphology, if and how diversity might be constrained, and how organelles change morphologically over time.(...)