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Kirsty Wan (University of Exeter)
Tuesday 11 October 2022, 16:15-16:50
Microscale motility: challenges, opportunities, ecological considerations
- 👤 Speaker: Kirsty Wan (University of Exeter)
- 📅 Date & Time: Tuesday 11 October 2022, 16:15 - 16:50
- 📍 Venue: Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute
Abstract
Researchers have been deeply fascinated by motility since the days of van Leeuwenhoek, over 350 years ago. It is a key physiological activity that is present in many microbial species, across many phyla, from bacteria to archaea to small eukaryotes. In multicellular organisms many of these ancestral traits are retained, examples include immune cells crawling on substrates, or cilia propelling viscous fluid. Motility is therefore an energetically costly investment, especially for microbial life, so what are some of the advantages that it confers? In this talk I will highlight three distinct examples of motility at the microscopic scale, focussing on mechanisms, dynamics and stochastic behaviours at the individual level.
Series This talk is part of the Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series series.
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