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Fatima Foflonker
Fatima Foflonker
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BIOGRAPHY

Fatima Foflonker is a computational biologist, with a Ph.D. in microbiology and expertise in algae, evolutionary genomics, and bioinformatics. She will be joining the Department of Biological Sciences at Clark Atlanta University as an assistant professor in the fall of 2023. 

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Two U-shaped tubes illustrate water diffusion across a semipermeable membrane. In diagram A, water moves from side 1 to side 2, driven by osmotic pressure and a concentration gradient, with impermeant substances unable to cross the membrane. In diagram B, hydrostatic pressure opposes the movement. Key concepts such as permeability, osmotic pressure, and impermeant membrane are labeled.
Osmotic pressure
Osmotic pressure, the amount of force applied to a solution that prevents solvent from moving across a semipermeable membrane. Osmosis is the spontaneous flow of solvent from a solution with a lower concentration of solutes to a more concentrated solution, with flow occurring across a semipermeable…
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