Theory of Biomolecular Matter


Group leader: Prof. dr. Bela Mulder

The aim of our group is to understand the individual and collective behaviour of biomacromolecules and their aggregates, using the techniques of statistical mechanics and continuum mechanics. The work is inspired by concrete questions regarding the structure and function of actual components of the living cell, with a special focus on plant systems.

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Visuaiization of Tabacco BY2 cells by a constitutively expressed GFP microtubule binding domain construct.
The cortical transverse array (a) and the preprophase band (b) are two of the important microtubule cytoskeleton structures in higher plants (scale bar 10 µm). Here they are visualized in Tabacco BY2 cells by a constitutively expressed GFP microtubule binding domain construct. Our course-grained theory of active gels is able to generate transverse orientationally ordered ringlike structures in cylindrical geometries (c) and provides a framework for studying these structures in general.