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Fluid dynamics of living cells

Title of the event Fluid dynamics of living cells
Series MPIDS Colloquium
Organizer Living Matter Physics
Speaker Prof. Dr. Mike Shelley
Speaker institution Flatiron Institute & New York University, NY, USA
Type of event Seminar
Category Forschung
Registration required Nein
Details The organized movement of intracellular fluids is part of the functioning of cells and the development of organisms. These flows often arise from the action of molecular motors on the transitory and flex-ible scaffoldings of the cell. That sounds complex and multiscaled, as is much of biology, but its study is also becoming a beautiful sub-branch of fluid dynamics characterized by geometric complexity, confinement, and microscale activity. Understanding phenomena in this realm has necessitated the de-velopment of new simulation tools, and of new coarse-grain mathematical models to analyze and sim-ulate. In that context, I'll discuss how genetic material is "properly" positioned within a cell, how a symmetry-breaking "swirling" instability may be an important part of the development of an oocyte, and how flows in the nucleus give us clues to its internal mechanics.
Date Start: 04.11.2020, 14:15 Uhr
Ende: 04.11.2020 , 15:15 Uhr
Location Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation (MPIDS) (Am Faßberg 17)
Video conference at www.zoom.us Meeting ID: 959 2774 3389 Passcode: 651129
Contact 0551/5176-155
evelyn.tang@ds.mpg.de
File attachment 201104_colloquium_shelley.pdf