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Building a Cell from the Bottom Up

dc.contributor.author Ross, Jennifer
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Physics en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename University of Massachusetts at Amherst en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2015-11-13T16:25:44Z
dc.date.available 2015-11-13T16:25:44Z
dc.date.issued 2015-11-09
dc.description Presented on November 9, 2015 at 3:00 p.m. in the Klaus Advanced Computing Building, room 1116W. en_US
dc.description Jennifer Ross is an Associate Professor in the Physics Department at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
dc.description Runtime: 55:41 minutes
dc.description.abstract Biology utilizes energy to organize itself from the nanoscale to the macroscopic scale. We seek to determine the universal principles of organization from the molecular scale that give rise to architecture on the cellular scale. We are specifically interested in the organization of the microtubule cytoskeleton, a rigid, yet versatile network in most cell types. The microtubule network is organized by associated motor proteins and crosslinkers that are either active (use energy) or passive. The work I will present applies the ideas of statistical mechanics and condensed matter physics to the non-equilibrium pattern formation behind intracellular organization using the microtubule cytoskeleton as the building blocks. We examine these processes in a bottom-up manner by adding increasingly complex protein actors into the system. Our systematic experiments expose nature’s laws for nanoscale to micron scale organization and have large impacts on biology as well as illuminating new frontiers of active matter physics. en_US
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dc.format.extent 55:41 minutes
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/54167
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
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dc.subject Cellular scale en_US
dc.subject Microtubule cytoskeleton en_US
dc.subject Statistical mechanics en_US
dc.subject Condensed matter physics en_US
dc.title Building a Cell from the Bottom Up en_US
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