DocumentCode
610650
Title
Photonics in the pursuit of living cell membrane structure
Author
Mayor, S.
Author_Institution
Nat. Centre for Biol. Sci., TIFR, Bangalore, India
fYear
2012
fDate
9-12 Dec. 2012
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
1
Abstract
The cell membrane is a fluid bilayer, composed of a number of proteins and lipid species. Here I discuss how a variety of photonic tools have been used in the pursuit of understanding the dynamic architecture of the living cell membrane at the nano and meso scale.
Keywords
biological techniques; biomembranes; cellular biophysics; lipid bilayers; molecular biophysics; nanobiotechnology; optical microscopy; proteins; dynamic architecture; fluid bilayer; lipid species; living cell membrane structure; mesoscale structure; nanoscale structure; photonic tools; proteins;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Fiber Optics and Photonics (PHOTONICS), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location
Chennai
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-4718-1
Type
conf
Filename
6545666
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