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SUMMARY:Leverhulme Lecture: The translocation of polymers across nanometer
  sized pores in membranes - Prof Sandip Ghosal (Northwestern University)
DTSTART:20130118T140000Z
DTEND:20130118T150000Z
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CONTACT:Shery Huang
DESCRIPTION:The operation of sub-cellular processes in living organisms of
 ten require the transfer of bio-polymers across impermeable lipid membrane
 s. The emergence of new experimental techniques for manipulation of single
  molecules at nanometer scales have made possible in vitro experiments tha
 t can directly probe such translocation processes in cells as well as in s
 ynthetic systems. Some of these ideas have spawned novel bio-technologies 
 with many more (such as ultra fast DNA sequencing) likely to emerge in the
  near future. In this talk I would review some of these experiments and at
 tempt to provide a quantitative understanding of the data in terms of phys
 ical laws\, primarily mechanics and electrostatics.
LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Cavendish Laboratory
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