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Welcome to the home page of the Rappel Laboratory at the Department of Physics, UC San Diego

Our research interests are diverse and include cardiac dynamics, cellular signaling, cell motility, and chemotaxis. By navigating this site, you can find out more about our research, publications, and lab members.

Composite of outlines of actual cell membranes moving to a pipette filled with a chemoattractant and position in the upper right hand corner. The outlines are color coded to show the time evolution. The inset shows a sequence of images of a chemotaxing cell in which both the actin network (red, and responsible for protrusive forces) and myosin (green, and responsible for contractile forces) is marked by a fluorescent protein. For more details, please see the Research section or our publications.