Cirque Plume

Cytoskeleton: Cirque du Septins

Septins and F-actin are familiar cohabitants of the cleavage furrow yet how they might be functionally connected has been ambiguous. New work shows that septins can promote the assembly of curved bundles of F-actin, providing an unexpected molecular function for septins in cytokinesis.

The Gavarnie Cirque : a celebrated ”nature’s colossus

Information Technology at Cirque du Soleil: Looking Back, Moving Forward

What do information technologies (IT) have to do with running an artistic organization such as Cirque du Soleil? It turns out that they are critical to the success of the organization. The case is situated in 2008 when Cirque had developed an IT infrastructure supporting the entire process value chain from show creation to production and design, casting, and logistics needed for running its 17 ...

The Cirque du Soleil of Golgi membrane dynamics

The role of lipid metabolic enzymes in Golgi membrane remodeling is a subject of intense interest. Now, in this issue, Schmidt and Brown (2009. J. Cell Biol. doi:10.1083/jcb.200904147) report that lysophosphatidic acid-specific acyltransferase, LPAAT3, contributes to Golgi membrane dynamics by suppressing tubule formation.

Odor Guided Exploration and Plume Tracking - Particle Plume Explorer

This paper presents a new algorithm for single robot odor exploration called Particle Plume Explorer. This algorithm is supported by a novel point cloud based plume mapping method called Particle Plume also presented here. The developed algorithm was validated through extensive real world experiments on multiple environments using a single robot equipped with a gas sensor.