Getting around the cell: physical transport in the intracellular world

SS Mogre, AI Brown, EF Koslover - Physical Biology, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Eukaryotic cells face the challenging task of transporting a variety of particles through the
complex intracellular milieu in order to deliver, distribute, and mix the many components that …

Barriers in the brain: resolving dendritic spine morphology and compartmentalization

M Adrian, R Kusters, CJ Wierenga, C Storm… - Frontiers in …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Dendritic spines are micron-sized protrusions that harbor the majority of excitatory synapses
in the central nervous system. The head of the spine is connected to the dendritic shaft by a …

Analysis of diffusion in curved surfaces and its application to tubular membranes

CJS Klaus, K Raghunathan… - Molecular biology of …, 2016 - Am Soc Cell Biol
Diffusion of particles in curved surfaces is inherently complex compared with diffusion in a
flat membrane, owing to the nonplanarity of the surface. The consequence of such …

Conventional analysis of movement on non-flat surfaces like the plasma membrane makes Brownian motion appear anomalous

J Adler, IM Sintorn, R Strand, I Parmryd - Communications biology, 2019 - nature.com
Cells are neither flat nor smooth, which has serious implications for prevailing plasma
membrane models and cellular processes like cell signalling, adhesion and molecular …

Liquid crystals of hard rectangles on flat and cylindrical manifolds

CE Sitta, F Smallenburg, R Wittkowski… - Physical Chemistry …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Using the classical density functional theory of freezing and Monte Carlo computer
simulations, we explore the liquid-crystalline phase behavior of hard rectangles on flat and …

A method for molecular dynamics on curved surfaces

S Paquay, R Kusters - Biophysical journal, 2016 - cell.com
Dynamics simulations of constrained particles can greatly aid in understanding the temporal
and spatial evolution of biological processes such as lateral transport along membranes and …

Dynamic phase separation of confined driven particles

R Kusters, C Storm - Europhysics Letters, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Even a small number of actively driven particles can set large numbers of passive particles
into motion. We study collective behavior in densely packed particle systems, that contain a …

[PDF][PDF] Veröffentlichung IV Liquid crystals of hard rectangles on flat and cylindrical manifolds

CE Sitta, F Smallenburg, R Wittkowski, H Löwen - Struktur und Dynamik weicher … - d-nb.info
Using the classical density functional theory of freezing and Monte Carlo computer
simulations, we explore the liquid-crystalline phase behavior of hard rectangles on flat and …

[PDF][PDF] Directionality of diffusion on curved surfaces

S van Leuken, IRPT Kusters, WG Ellenbroek - 2015 - pure.tue.nl
In this project we have studied the effect of curvature on the directionality of diffusion. For
this, we measure the diffusion of spherical Lennard-Jones particles in the circumferential …