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W. G. Pritchard Lab Seminar: 4:00-5:00 PM, 320 Whitmore Laboratory

	            **Tuesday December 7, 2004**
	
Biopolymer bundles

Philip Pincus

Department of Physics / Materials Research Laboratory 
University of California Santa Barbara
 

Abstract:

Semi-flexible polyelectrolyte biopolymers, such as DNA, f-actin, 
microtubules, self-assemble into finite size bundles under the influence 
of multi-valent counterions and specific associating proteins.  We shall 
review and discuss the physics of this phenomenon in the context of a 
Rayleigh instability and counterion condensation. 

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