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Function: Force and Motion

Structural Elements:
- Filaments, Microtubules, Growth and Dynamic Instability
- Membranes, Lipid Bilayers, Bending Rigidity, Fluctuations and Shapes
Protein Motors:
- Kinesin, Dyenin, Myosin, RNA Polymeraze, ...
- Energetics and Forces from ATP Hydrolysis
- Ratchet models of motor transport
- Asymmetric Hopping Models
Forcing DNA/RNA:
- Injection and Packaging of Viral Genomes
- Modelling Polymer Translocation
Cell Motility:
- Constraints on Motion at Low Reynolds Number
- Brownian Motion
- Chemotaxis, Biased Random Walks
- Propulsion by Actin Polymerization

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