Statistical Physics in Biology

Function (Force & Motion)

1. Cell structure elements:
   • Membranes
     • Lipids and self-assembly
     • Canham-Helfrich bending energy
     • Red blood cells, flicker and shapes
   • Filaments in the cycloskeleton
     • Actin, intermediate, microtubules
     • Dynamic Instability
     • Threadmilling
2. Molecular motors:
   • Kinesin, dyenin, myosin, simulations
   • Brownian ratchet models
   • Asymmetric hopping models
3. Cell motility:
   • Brownian motion
   • Swimming cells
     • Life at Low Reynolds Number (E.M. Purcell)
   • Crawling cells
     • Propulsion by actin polymerization

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