With this strategy, Hell’s team fluorescently tagged and tracked a motor protein called kinesin as it performed its signature walk down the length of a microtubule. Kinesin is a vital player in ...

The researchers enclosed the microtubule-kinesin-ATP mixture in a droplet of oil. A video of the reaction showed two microtubules aligned parallel to each other. A kinesin molecule then came between ...

To prepare the sensing surface, the fiber tip was coated with a BRB80-casein buffer, kinesin-1, and a microtubule-containing motility solution. After washing off unbound microtubules, the fiber ...

My current projects address motor protein dynamics and microtubule length regulation, cytoskeletal active matter, mitotic spindle assembly and regulation, chromosome segregation in cell division, and ...