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Colloquium

The Transportation System Inside a Living Cell

Clare Yu
University of California, Irvine
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Higgins 310, 4 pm

 

A living cell has an infrastructure much like that of a city. We will describe the transportation system that consists of roads (filaments) and molecular motors (proteins) that haul cargo along these roads.  We will give an example showing how pigment cells regulate this transport.

 

 

 

 

 



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