September 19th, 2009 | Published in Collaborations, Lung, Media Gallery, Virtual Lung Project
The second in a series of animated videos depicting the inner workings of the human lung on a microscopic scale. “Scene 2: Clearance: A Journey” asks questions about how clearance can possibly work when the volume through which the mucus flows decreases as it moves up from the depths of the lung to the throat.
This video can also be seen on YouTube.
July 9th, 2009 | Published in Collaborations, Media Gallery
The first in a series of animated videos depicting the inner workings of the human lung on a microscopic scale. “Scene 1: Into the Mucus River” explains how air gets into healthy lungs, how the body defends itself against harmful airborne pathogens, and how mucus and cilia interact with the air particles.
This video can also be seen on YouTube.
February 13th, 2009 | Published in Alisa Wolberg, Collaborations, Media Gallery, Molecular Modeling and Display (UIUC), Susan Lord, Thrombosis
iMiJ.pdb: Native Chicken Fibrinogen rendered using broad illumination on the BASS (NIH 1S10RR023069-01)
CISMM is one of the primary users of the Biomedical Analysis and Simulation Supercomputer (BASS) system that was commissioned yesterday. One of the first uses of the machine was to construct a high-resolution rendering of fibrinogen (blood clotting molecule of interest to our thrombisis collaborators Susan Lord, John Weidel, Martin Guthold, and Alisa Wolberg). This is a prototype for the PDB rendering project in collaboration with David Banks at with the Klaus Schulten NCRR on Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics.