Friday, Feb 3, 2006

Dr. Clare Yu

Dept of Physics and Astronomy, UC Irvine

"The Transportation System Inside a Living Cell "

2:00 pm in room P-148

Abstract:  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.