Soft Matter in Motion

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• Dr Eric Lauga, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
• Wednesday 05 February 2014, 16:00-17:00
• Pippard Lecture Theatre, Cavendish Laboratory.

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The cellular world includes a myriad of self-propelled microorganisms, including many bacteria, spermatozoa, ciliates, and plankton. In this talk, we start by providing an introduction to the fluid-based locomotion of cells. We then focus on deriving optimal modes of locomotion. Considering the various propulsion mechanisms observed in nature (flagella vs. cilia; prokaryotes vs. eukaryotes), we mathematically and computationally compute the cell kinematics achieving propulsion, or fluid transport, with minimal energetic cost, and compare our results with biological observations.

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