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Statistical Physics in Biology

KU Leuven, Spring 2013

Lecture 5


Microtubules

  1. Filaments in the cycloskeleton; Major types:
  2. Microtubule structure:
  3. Dynamic Instability [Mitchison & Kirchner, Nature 312, 237 (1984)]
  4. Search strategy
  5. Self-organization of microtubules and motors in vitro

Molecular Motors

  1. Molecular motors:
  2. General scheme of motor transport:
  3. Motion in a noisy environment
  1. Asymmetric hopping models:

Cell Motion

  1. Brownian motion: (offline)
  2. Crawling cells
  3. Swimming cells:

[Lecture Notes]

[Exercises]


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