3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Forces at the scale of the cell
K. Vijay Kumar, Mandar M. Inamdar, Pramod A. Pullarkat +1
The importance of molecular-scale forces in sculpting biological form and function has been acknowledged for more than a century. Accounting for forces in biology is a problem that…
cond-mat.soft2025
Rotational dynamics of bound pairs of bacteria-induced membrane tubes
Makarand Diwe, P B Sunil Kumar, Pramod Pullarkat
We present experiments demonstrating tube formation in giant unilamellar vesicles that are suspended in a bath of swimming E. coli bacteria. We chose the lipids such that the bacte…
physics.optics2024
Steerable dual-trap optical tweezers with confocal position detection using back-scattered light
Md Arsalan Ashraf, Pramod Pullarkat
Optical tweezers has emerged as a powerful tool in manipulating microscopic particles and in measuring weak forces of the order of a pico-Newton. As a result, it has found wide app…