Welte Lab of Brandeis University: Movies of Intracellular Transport

Movies of Intracellular Transport

This page will be always under construction as we add more movies of motors and transport, both from our own research and by providing links to other research groups. So please check back often!

If you have trouble viewing the movies from our laboratory, you may need the current version of Quicktime Player. You can download it for free at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/.

Our Own Work (see our Research page for background information):

Clearing and clouding in a Drosophila embryo (movie and cartoon). The change in embryo opacity results from large-scale transport of yolk vesicles and lipid droplets.
Motion of individual lipid droplets in a Drosophila embryo.
How we quantify droplet motion: tracking droplets. Seethe home page of Dr. Steven Gross for details on tracking the motion of organelles.
Stopping droplet motion with optical tweezers. See the home page of Dr. Steven Gross for how to use optical tweezers in vivo. Our links page also provides additional information on optical tweezers.

Other cool movies on motor behavior and intracellular transport:

Various movies on the Kinesin home page
A model for how conventional kinesin moves from the Vale laboratory plus other movies
Single molecule biophysics experiments from the Gelles laboratory