Lecture 22

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Cell Motion

Brownian Motion:
- Movies of Milk Droplets in Water, Beads in Water and DNA, DNA Tethered Bead, Bead Capture
- Animated Simulation (See also Applet #2, Applet #3, Applet #4)
- Langevin Description
- Fokker-Planck Descrition, Master Equations, Smoluchowski Equation (Page 1 (GIF) of Lecture Notes)
- Thermal Equilibrium and the Einsten Relation (Page 2 (GIF) of Lecture Notes)
- Typed Set of Lecture Notes on Dissipative Dynamics (PDF)
Swimming Cells:
- Life at Low Reynolds Number (E. M. Purcell)
- The Scallop Theorem: Impossibility of Reciprocal Motion
- Flagellar Rotary Motion (Efficiency)
- Chemotaxis by Runs and Tumbles - Why?
Crawling Cells:
- Remodelling of Actin Cycloskeleton
- Crawling Neutrophil Chasing a Bacterium
- Actin-based Motility (Listeria)
- More from the Theriot Lab movie collection
- Latex Beads Coated with ActA Protein: Motion (MOV) and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (MOV)

Cell Locomotion
Borisy Lab Movie Page
A Lecture on Cell Mobility and Cytoskeleton
Some Parameters for Diverse Cell Motion
Purcell, E. M. "The Efficiency of Propulsion by a Rotating Flagellum." PNAS 94, no. 11307 (1997). (PDF)
Howard, Berg. "Motile behavior of bacteria." Physics Today.