Research investigating lipid membrane curvature generation and sensing is a rapidly
developing frontier in membrane physical chemistry and biophysics. The fast recent …

Motivated by the motion of biopolymers and membranes in solution, this article presents a
formulation of the equations of motion for curves and surfaces in a viscous fluid. The focus is …

We show that the formation of membrane tubes (or membrane tethers), which is a crucial
step in many biological processes, is highly nontrivial and involves first-order shape …

The sorting of lipids and proteins in cellular trafficking pathways is a process of central
importance in maintaining compartmentalization in eukaryotic cells. However, the …

Biological membranes are known to contain compositional heterogeneities, often termed
rafts, with distinguishable composition and function, and these heterogeneities participate in …

Compartmentalization of biomolecules within lipid membranes is a fundamental requirement
of living systems and an essential feature of many pharmaceutical therapies. However …

The membrane of the red blood cell (RBC) consists of spectrin tetramers connected at actin
junctional complexes, forming a two-dimensional (2D) sixfold triangular network anchored to …

Tethers are nanocylinders of lipid bilayer membrane, arising in situations ranging from
micromanipulation experiments on synthetic vesicles to the formation of dynamic tubular …

The tubular morphology of intracellular membranous compartments is actively maintained
through interactions with motor proteins and the cytoskeleton. Moving along cytoskeletal …

Recent studies indicate that the cell membrane, interacting with its attached cytoskeleton, is
an important regulator of cell function, exerting and responding to forces. We investigate this …