Function (force & motion)

1. Cell structure elements:

• Membranes
  • Lipids and self-assembly
  • Canham-Helfrich bending energy
  • Red blood cells, flicker and shapes
  • Transport in and out of cells
• Filaments in the cycloskeleton
  • Actin, intermediate, microtubules
  • Dynamic Instability
  • Threadmilling

2. Molecular motors:

• Kinesin, dyenin, myosin, ... (simulations-offline)
• Brownian ratchet models (offline-applet)
• Asymmetric hopping models

3. Cell motility:

• Brownian motion
• Swimming cells
  • Life at Low Reynolds Number (E.M. Purcell)
• Crawling cells
  • Propulsion by actin polymerization