Passive and active transport across the cell membrane | Cell structure and function | meriSTEM
Channel: meriSTEM Education
Date: 17/11/2020

- ACSBL045: The cell membrane separates the cell from its surroundings and controls the exchange of materials, including gases, nutrients and wastes, between the cell and its environment.
- ACSBL046: Movement of materials across membranes occurs via diffusion, osmosis, active transport and/or endocytosis.

Presented by Sarah Rottet. Sarah works with Chief Investigator Dean Price at the ANU Node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Translational Photosynthesis. 

She is synthetic biologist with experience in working on membrane transporters. She previously worked on transporters in Dr Colin Scott’s lab at CSIRO Black mountain. Currently she is working on RIPE projects related to transferring functional bicarbonate and CO2 pumps to the C3 chloroplast, with a view to improving photosynthetic CO2 fixation.

This video is part of meriSTEM Australian senior science educational resources (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Email the team (contact.meristem@anu.edu.au) for further information, course access and curriculum links.