Projektnummer

0071442

Zusammenfassung

Motile cilia are tiny hair-like structures on the surface of living organisms that move back and forth to push fluids. It is assumed that cilia in vertebrates are limited to generating a uniform bulk flow rather than targeted flows. In contrast, this project's hypothesis is that the ciliated cells lining the fluid-filled brain ventricles in vertebrates can create spatially and possibly temporarily variable patterns of fluid transport. Drawing from its expertise in biological fluid dynamics and neuroscience, the research team has been developing experimental and computational tools for explorin...