Starting Saturday, January 23 the third Molecular Motors, Tracks and Transport (M2T2) international workshop will run for six days in Pondicherry, India.

In mechanical devices, directed movement typically depends upon some type of motor. Living systems also have their motors, used to drive the organism as a whole, or parts of its body or even the movement of structures within the cell itself. Intracellular movements depend upon molecular motors that use sophisticated intramolecular amplification mechanisms to take nanometre steps along protein tracks laid out in linear fashion in the cytoplasm.