Sucheta Kulkarni

Stories from Sucheta Kulkarni

Saturday, August 7th, 2010

In the early days of June this year, NCBS students traveling to and from Mandara hostel noticed that large number of butterflies were often seen flying in the same direction. Intriguingly, some of the long-timers recalled that they had observed this beautiful sight every year, suggesting some kind of migratory ritual. Now the mystery is being addressed by NCBS scientist Sanjay Sane and his enthusiastic team.

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

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.

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