NIH Special Interests Groups -
Motility Interest Group



A wide variety of cells and cellular organelles are motile. The picture shows an outer hair cell from the inner ear, a sensory cell with a unique motility. A movie (click here) shows motion of the cell responding to short depolarizing (positive going) pulses.

Summary

Meeting time: First Monday (except July and August)
Meeting place: Building 10, Bunim Room
Contact: Leepo Yu, NIAMS
Phone: 496-5415
E-mail: lcyu@helix.nih.gov

Members' Pages

Richard D. Leapman
Mark Schoenberg
Susan Gentleman
Robert Horowits
Kuni H. Iwasa
Leepo C. Yu

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