Mathematical Cell Biology Summer Course Lecture 15

Speaker: Jun Allard

Date: Thu, May 10, 2012

Location: PIMS, University of British Columbia

Subject: Mathematics, Mathematical Biology

Class: Scientific

Abstract:

Cell Mechanics #4: Applications of thermal forces. Elastic
Brownian ratchet [Mogilner and Oster 1996 Biophys J]; Pulling by a
depolymerizing microtubule, master equations in discrete state space
[Peskin and Oster 1995 Biophys J]; Gel symmetry breaking [van der
Gucht et al 2005 Proc Natl Acad Sci].