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SUMMARY:Synchronisation of eukaryotic flagella - Dr Marco Polin\, DAMTP\, 
 Cambriidge
DTSTART:20120531T083000Z
DTEND:20120531T093000Z
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CONTACT:Leona Hope-Coles
DESCRIPTION:A fine thread links the swimming of microscopic unicellular pr
 otozoa to the left-right asymmetry in our body plan. The connection is pro
 vided by the incessant beating of cilia and flagella\, micrometre-size hai
 r-like organelles highly conserved across eukaryotic species. From the wav
 e-like beating patterns on the epithelium of our respiratory tract to the 
 breaststroke beating in biflagellate algae\, coordination in groups of cil
 ia and flagella is often of paramount importance for their function. The r
 emarkable similarity in the underlying molecular structure of flagella acr
 oss the whole eukaryotic world leads naturally to the hypothesis that a si
 milarly universal mechanism might be responsible for synchronisation.\nAlt
 hough this mechanism is poorly understood\, one appealing hypothesis is th
 at it results from hydrodynamic interactions between flagella.\n\n\nIn thi
 s seminar I will discuss recent studies on flagellar dynamics in two speci
 es of green algae\, the unicellular {\\it Chlamydomonas reinhardtii} and t
 he multicellular {\\it Volvox carteri}\, and will provide the strongest ev
 idence yet for an elasto-hydrodynamic origin of flagellar synchronisation.
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LOCATION:Small Lecture Theatre\, Cavendish Laboratory\, Department of Phys
 ics
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