Talks

Selected Invited Talks

•    Frontiers of Quantitative Biology Seminar Series, Stanford University, September 2009, “Polymer Brushes and the Nuclear Pore”

•    Department of Physics, University of California Santa Cruz, January 2009, “Snaking through a Crowd: Macromolecular Transport in Cellular Environments”

•    Biological Soft Matter Workshop, Seoul, Korea, November 2008  “Cell motility: Dynamics of the Actin-Membrane System”

•    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Brown University, October 2008, “Polymer Translocation in Crowded Environments”

•   Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UCSB, September 2008, Theory and Practice of Fluctuation Induced Phenomena.

•    Department of Physics, University of Chicago, August 2008, “Polymer Translocation in Crowded Environments”

•    Department of Physics, Florida State University, December 2007, “Cell motility: Actin Polymerization and Membrane Dynamics”

•    Department of Radiology, UC Davis, November 2007, “Mathematical Modeling of Multidentate Ligand Kinetics”

•    Soft, Complex and Biological Matter Conference, Sicily, Italy, August 2007 “Cell motility: Actin Polymerization and Membrane Dynamics ”

•    Workshop on Cell Motility, Aspen, CO, June 2007 “Dynamics of Membranes Driven by Actin Polymerization ”

•    Fifth International Workshop on Current Problems in Complex Fluids, Puebla, Mexico, January 2007 “Cell motility: Actin Polymerization, Force Generation and Membrane Dynamics ”

•    Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, July 2006, “Actin Polymerization Driven Propulsion”

•    Department of Physics, CMU & University of Pittsburgh, April 2006, “Physics of Crawling Cells and Ballistic Bacteria”

•    American Physical Society Invited Symposium on Cytoskeletal Dynamics and Mechanics, March 2006, “Elasticity Adhesion and Actin Based Propulsion”

•    Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, March 2006, “Physics of Crawling Cells and Ballistic Bacteria”

•    MIT “Chez Pierre” Seminar, March 2006, “Physics of Crawling Cells and Ballistic Bacteria”

•    Condensed Matter Seminar, University of Colorado Boulder, February 2006, “Novel Transport Dynamics in the Presence of Traps and Obstacles”

•    Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, February 2006, “Physics of Crawling Cells and Ballistic Bacteria”

•    Department of Physics, University of Toronto, January 2006, “Physics of Crawling Cells and Ballistic Bacteria”

•    Dept. of Chemistry, UC Berkeley, November 2005, “Dynamics of Membranes Driven by Actin Polymerization”