学术报告第201505期

报告题目：Molecular Robotics and Bio-Imaging: A New Way to Construct Nano-scale Artifacts in Bio-molecules（分子机器人及生物分子成像）
   
    报告人：konagaya教授（日本 东京工业大学）
   
    报告时间：3月17日上午9：00-11：00
   
    报告地点：南一楼中311会议室
   

    邀请方：“多谱信息处理技术”国家级重点实验室
   

报告摘要：
    Molecular robots are artifacts consist of sensors, actuators and intelligence made of bio-molecules. In order to promote this, “molecularrobotics” has been selected as one of the prestigious Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan, for the fiscal years 2012-2016. The program started in July, 2012, and is organized by 4 principal investigators, 25 co-investigators, and 27 selected researchers including biochemists, biophysicists, mechanical engineers and computer scientists, to name but a few. Two types of molecular robots, anamoeba-type robot and aslime-type robot, have been extensively studied so far.Bio-imaging plays an important role for the investigation of video-data observed in bio-chemical experiments, such as micro-tubule gliding assay in which microtubules are driven by motor proteins attached on a glass surface when adenosine triphosphates (ATPs) are dosed. A real-time live-controlled 3D simulator has been developed for the reproduction of self-organized motion dynamics of microtubules. The simulator enables real-time visualization thanks to Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) in both rendering and high performance computing.