{"id":3840,"date":"2013-02-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2013\/02\/19\/molecular-motor-biophysics-hardware-instrumentation-and-nonlinear-physics\/"},"modified":"2013-02-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T00:00:00","slug":"molecular-motor-biophysics-hardware-instrumentation-and-nonlinear-physics","status":"publish","type":"physics_colloquium","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/colloquium\/molecular-motor-biophysics-hardware-instrumentation-and-nonlinear-physics\/","title":{"rendered":"Molecular Motor Biophysics: Hardware Instrumentation and Nonlinear Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"page-featured-image\" class=\"wp-block-image is-style-alignleft\" data-pic=\"pic-537.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/22\/2023\/01\/pic-537.jpg\" alt=\"Promotional image for talk: Elements of a successful scientific talk\" data-pic=\"pic-537.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Speaker(s):<\/strong> Jing Xu<\/p>\n<p>Experimental biophysicists build instruments to study nature\u2019s nano-machines.  Molecular motors are nano-machines and are crucial for life: they transport materials in cells.  Motor-based transport is inherently a many body problem, and exhibits complex behavior yet to be understood.  An analytic model for multiple motor transport has been proposed, but has remained untested.  In this talk, I will discuss the construction of a single beam gradient optical trap in my laboratory. I will also discuss planned measurements using this optical trap, aimed at experimentally testing the current model and driving theory development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-3840","physics_colloquium","type-physics_colloquium","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium\/3840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_colloquium"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_colloquium"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}