Speaker
Mr
Eun-Jik Park
(Virginia Tech)
Description
Ciliary organisms like Paramecium Multimicronucleatum locomote by synchronized beating of cilia that produce metachronal waves over their body. In their natural environments they navigate through a variety of environments especially surfaces with different topology. We study the effects of wavy surfaces patterned on the PDMS channels on the locomotive abilities of Paramecium by characterizing different quantities like velocity amplitude and wavelength of the trajectories traced. We compare this result with the swimming characteristics in straight channels and draw conclusions about the effects of various patterned surfaces.
Co-authors
Aja Eddins
(Virginia Tech)
Junil Kim
(Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)
Saikat Jana
(Virginia Tech)
Sung Yang
(Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology)
Sunghwan Jung
(Virginia Tech)
