Richard D. Berlin
Center for Cell Analysis & Modeling

Jing Yang

 

Education:

B.E., Xi'an Jiaotong University, Mechanical Engineering.
M.E., Xi'an Jiaotong University, Mechanical Engineering.

 

Current Advisor:

Dr. Greg Huber

 

Scientific Interests:

Morphological and kinematic studies of cellular locomotion. Discoveries in molecular biology and biochemistry have greatly deepened our understanding the processes in the cell, but a lot of mechanisms underlying these processes are still unclear, especially the interactions between cells or the environment. Mostly cells have to grow in aqueous solution, the formation of cell shape and strategy for moving must have been influenced by environment during the evolution of millions of years. I am focusing on the application of differential geometry, fluid mechanics to delineate the underlying mechanisms of cellular morphology and motility of cells in aqueous solutions.

 

Research Project:

Purcellian swimmers with hydrodynamic interactions.
Numerical investigation of the swimming process of Chlamydomonos.
Kinematics of the Swimming of Spiroplasma.
Analytic solution of Hotani Angle.

 

Publications:

1.J. Yang, C.W. Wolgemuth, and G. Huber, Kinematics of the Swimming of Spiroplasma, Phys. Rev. Lett 102, 218102 (2009). (Collected in Volume 17, Issue 11 of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, and the news about this paper in Sciencenews.org).

2. G. Huber, S.A. Koehler, J. Yang, Micro-swimmers with hydrodynamic interactions, Mathematical and Computer Modelling 53 (2011) 1518-1526.

3. J. Yang, G. Huber, and C. W. Wolgemuth, Forces and torques on rotating spirochete flagella, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 268101 (2011).

4.J. Yang, C.W. Wolgemuth, and G. Huber, Concatenated Helices (in preparation).

 

Favorite thing about UCHC/Hartford Area:

Going fishing in the Farmington river.

 

Miscellaneous:

Like reading, sports in my spare time.