Cellular Biomechanics

Presentations

• Simulation of Actin-Polymerization-Mediated Propulsion

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 11:30 AM – March 23, 2005, 11:42 AM

  Authors

  • Kun-Chun Lee

    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCLA

  • Andrea Liu

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania

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• Hyaluronan-mediated cellular adhesion

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 11:42 AM – March 23, 2005, 11:54 AM

  Authors

  • Jennifer Curtis

  • Christian Schmitz

  • Joachim Spatz

    • Biophysical Chemistry, University of Heidelberg, Max Planck Institute for Metals Research

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• A 3-D Biophysical Model of Mitotic Spindle Formation

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 11:54 AM – March 23, 2005, 12:06 PM

  Authors

  • Stuart Schaffner

  • Jorge Jose

    • Northeastern University

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• Self-organization of cytoskeletal systems: formation and dynamics of bundles, rings, and spindles

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 12:06 PM – March 23, 2005, 12:18 PM

  Authors

  • Alexander Zumdieck

    • Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany

  • Karsten Kruse

  • Frank J\"ulicher

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• MSP dynamics and retraction in nematode sperm

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 12:18 PM – March 23, 2005, 12:30 PM

  Authors

  • Charles Wolgemuth

    • Uconn Health Center
    • UCONN Health Center
    • University of Connecticut Health Center

  • Long Miao

    • Florida State University

  • Orion Vanderlinde

    • Florida State University

  • Tom Roberts

    • Florida State University

  • George Oster

    • University of California, Berkeley

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• Untwisting the mystery of supercoiling: Mbl configuration in growing bacterial filaments

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 12:30 PM – March 23, 2005, 12:42 PM

  Authors

  • Sulav Mukherjee

    • UConn Health Center

  • Barbara Setlow

    • Uconn Health Center

  • Peter Setlow

    • Uconn Health Center

  • Charles Wolgemuth

    • Uconn Health Center
    • UCONN Health Center
    • University of Connecticut Health Center

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• Stochastic description of pilus retraction dynamics

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 12:42 PM – March 23, 2005, 12:54 PM

  Authors

  • Martin Lind\'en

    • Condensed Matter Theory, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

  • Emil Johansson

  • Mats Wallin

    • Condensed Matter Theory, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

  • Ann-Beth Jonsson

    • MTC, KI, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Why nozzles are required for bacterial gliding?

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 12:54 PM – March 23, 2005, 1:06 PM

  Authors

  • Junhwan Jeon

  • Andrey Dobrynin

    • Polymer Program, Institute of Material Science, University of Connecticut
    • University of Connecticut
    • Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut

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• Force Regulation in Living Tissue

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 1:06 PM – March 23, 2005, 1:18 PM

  Authors

  • Yusuke Toyama

  • Xomalin G. Peralta

    • Physics Department, Duke University

  • Stephanos Venakides

    • Mathematics Department, Duke University

  • Daniel P. Kiehart

    • Department of Biology, Duke University

  • Glenn S. Edwards

    • Physics Department, Duke University

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• The TITS Algorithm: A Simple and Robust Method for Calculating Stable Shapes of Axisymmetric Vesicles

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 1:18 PM – March 23, 2005, 1:30 PM

  Authors

  • Gerald Lim

    • Depts. of (1) Biochem. and Molecular Biology and (2) Otorhinolaryngology, Baylor College of Medicine, One Baylor Plaza, MS: BCM125, Houston, TX 77030

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• Microinterferometric demonstration of actively driven bending excitations of the cell envelope of mouse macrophages.

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 1:30 PM – March 23, 2005, 1:42 PM

  Authors

  • Alexandra Zidovska

    • Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA

  • Erich Sackmann

    • Physik Department, Technische Universit\"at M\"unchen, D-85748 Garching, Germany

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• Dynamics of Caveolae in Endothelial Cells

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 1:42 PM – March 23, 2005, 1:54 PM

  Authors

  • Meron Mengistu

  • Linda Lowe-Krentz

  • H. Daniel Ou-Yang

    • Physics Dept, Lehigh University
    • Lehigh University

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• Cellular tolerance to pulsed heating

  ORAL

  March 23, 2005, 1:54 PM – March 23, 2005, 2:06 PM

  Authors

  • Dmitri Simanovskii

  • Daniel Palanker

  • Alan Schwettman

    • Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Stanford University

  • Mainak Sarkar

  • Afraz Irani

  • Caitlin C. O'Connell-Rodwell

  • Christopher Contag

    • Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University

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• A physical basis for actin filament lengths in cytoskeletal networks:

  ORAL

  Authors

  • Dennis Discher

  • Paul Dalhaimer

  • Tom Lubensky

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