Selected Movies: Molecular Biophysics Training Program

Selected Movies

Areas of Research

Many of the research programs of Northwestern's Biophysics Faculty fall within the realms of Structural Biology, Drug Design, Quantitative and Mechanistic Biology, Computational Biology and Chemical Biology. With over 20 faculty involved in the program and mani inter-laboratory collaborations, a variety of fundamental biological questions are being studied, including:

Nucleic acid structure and function
Mechanisms of gene regulation
Protein and RNA processing in the cell
Intracellular metal trafficking
Molecular mechanisms of viral infection
Mechanisms of macromolecular machines
Membrane protein structure and function

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A selection of movies produced by the Marko lab at Northwestern are presented below. The movies form the basis for the PNAS article by Poirier and Marko (2002). Find more movies on the Marko lab movie page.

Extraction of a single mitotic chromosome from a newt cell in mitosis
Micrococcal nuclease digestion of a single mitotic chromosome causing the chromosome to disintegrate into an apparent 'droplet' of chromatin fragments
Stretching of a single mitotic chromosome after mild micrococcal nuclease digestion causing the chromosome to break into islands of dense chromatin connected by thin fibers