"Many Particle Models of Stochastic Transport"
Active transport is critical for cellular organization and function. Much of the
intracellular long-distance transport is carried out by specialised proteins,
so-called molecular motors.
The molecular motors are connected to cargo like vesicles or cell organelles,
and moving along the filaments of the cytoskeleton. Molecular motors of the
kinesin and dynein
family move in opposite direction along microtubule-filaments. Some of the
cargo is even moved by kinesin and dynein motors, and frequently changes its
directionality.
In my talk I will discuss a few coorperative transport phenomena that are
related to motor driven intracellular transport. In particular variants of
stochastic many particle models
of transport by molecular motors are discussed, which show a strong tendency to
form macroscopic clusters on static lattices. Inspired by the fact that the
microscopic tracks for
molecular motors are dynamical, the influence of different types of lattice
dynamics on stochastic bidirectional transport will be examined.