- dividing.tracking.tracing
- medium: inkjet prints of composite digital image, on canvas
- layers: micrographs of yeast cells
- size: 3 @ 114 x 20cm
- research: scientists in the Cell Cycle and Cytoskeleton Lab are trying to understand the roles that small molecular motors, called myosins, play in helping a cell to grow and divide. These images represent individual molecules and structures moving through yeast cells over a short period (anything from 5 seconds to 5 minutes) of time. The lab has developed its own state of the art dedicated imaging system to allow the researchers to examine the movements within these microscopic cells (they are 10 micrometres in length, 1/100 of 1mm). The proteins being studied play important roles in regulating and determining growth in all types of cells (including humans). Learning how these myosins move and carry things around the yeast cell will help to further our understanding of diseases such as cancer and heart disease.
- Dr. Dan Mulvihill Lecturer in Cell and Molecular Biology