Speaker: Ryota Iino Room: 2.06

Single-molecule imaging and engineering of biological and synthetic molecular motors

  • PC Department Seminar
  • Date: Nov 30, 2023
  • Time: 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)
  • Speaker: Ryota Iino
  • Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan
  • Location: Building G
  • Room: 2.06
  • Host: Martin Wolf
Molecular motors, an important class of molecular machines, harness various energy sources to move unidirectionally [1]. The operational principles of molecular motors are distinct from those of man-made macroscopic motors, because they have nanoscale dimensions and generally work in a solution environment where viscosity is dominant. Under these low Reynolds number, overdamped conditions, they cannot rely on inertia to sustain motion. Furthermore, they are continually agitated by random Brownian motion, which provides both challenges and opportunities for the unidirectional motion. [more]
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