Dynamics of a Lipid Bilayer Membrane Immersed in a Viscous Fluid

Orateur : Yuan-Nan YOUNG (New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA)

Lipid bilayer membranes are essential components in cellular biology as they make up essential cellular components such as cytoplasmic membranes, mitochondria, reticulum, and cargo vesicles. In this talk we present results from both continuum modeling and coarse-grained molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. Dynamics of membrane deformation can be captured by both approaches, and yet the dynamics of membrane fusion remains a great challenge. In this talk we will present some recent results and progress in this direction. These results are from collaborations with Szu-Pei Fu (NJIT), Zhangli Peng (Notre Dame University), On Shun Pak (Santa Clara Univeristy), Shravan Veerapaneni (University of Michigan) and Howard Stone (Princeton University). This work is supported by National Science Foundation.

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