Polymers and Filaments for the Cytoskeleton

Presentations

• The response to point forces in cytoskeletal networks

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 5:00 AM – March 24, 2005, 5:12 AM

  Authors

  • Alex J. Levine

    • University of Massachusetts
    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • Dept. of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003.

  • Davd Head

    • The University of Tokyo

  • Fred MacKintosh

    • Vrije Universiteit
    • Division of Physics \& Astronomy, Vrije Universiteit
    • Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

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• Mechanical Response Study of Collagen by means of Molecular Simulation

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 5:12 AM – March 24, 2005, 5:24 AM

  Authors

  • Pieter J. in 't Veld

    • Sandia National Laboratories

  • Mark J. Stevens

    • Sandia National Labs
    • Sandia National Laboratories

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• Forced unfolding of protein domains determines cytoskeletal rheology

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 5:24 AM – March 24, 2005, 5:36 AM

  Authors

  • John C. Crocker

    • Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Brenton Hoffman

  • Gladys Massiera

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Structure and Interactions in Neurofilament Networks

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 5:36 AM – March 24, 2005, 5:48 AM

  Authors

  • Janya Jones

  • M. Ojeda-Lopez

  • Cyrus R. Safinya

    • (Materials, MCDB, \& Physics Departments, UCSB)
    • Materials, Physics, and Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Departments, University of California, Santa Barbara
    • UCSB
    • University of California Santa Barbara

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• Electrostatic self-assembly between biological polymers \& macroions: Interactions of F-actin \& DNA with lysozyme

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 5:48 AM – March 24, 2005, 6:00 AM

  Authors

  • Lori K. Sanders

  • Thomas E. Angelini

    • Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Wujing Xian

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Brian W. Matthews

    • Institute of Molecular Biology

  • Gerard C. L. Wong

    • Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Physics and Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Department of Materials Science \& Engineering, Department of Physics, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Department of Materials Science \& Engineering, Department of Physics, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois

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• Phase Behavior of F-actin

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 6:00 AM – March 24, 2005, 6:12 AM

  Authors

  • Glenna Z. Sowa

    • UCLA, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry

  • David S. Cannell

    • UCSB, Department of Physics

  • Andrea J. Liu

    • UCLA, Dept of Chemistry and Biochemistry

  • Emil Reisler

    • UCLA, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry

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• Phase behavior of semidilute polyelectrolyte mixtures of F-actin and DNA

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 6:12 AM – March 24, 2005, 6:24 AM

  Authors

  • Scott Slimmer

  • John C. Butler

    • Department of Materials Science \& Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering

  • Olena V. Zribi

    • Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Ubana Champaign

  • Ramin Golastanian

    • Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK, Institute for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences, Zanjan, Iran

  • Gerard C. L. Wong

    • Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Physics and Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Department of Materials Science \& Engineering, Department of Physics, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Department of Materials Science \& Engineering, Department of Physics, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois

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• Fluorescent Speckle Microrheology of F-actin Networks

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 6:24 AM – March 24, 2005, 6:36 AM

  Authors

  • Margaret Gardel

    • M.I.T., Cambridge, MA USA

  • Dinah Loerke

  • Gaudenz Danuser

  • Clare Waterman-Storer

    • The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA USA

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• Entanglement of Semiflexiible Polymers: A Brownian Dynamics Study

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 6:36 AM – March 24, 2005, 6:48 AM

  Authors

  • Shriram Ramanathan

  • David Morse

    • University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
    • University of Minnesota

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• Polyelectrolyte Bundles: Finite size at thermodynamic equilibrium?

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 6:48 AM – March 24, 2005, 7:00 AM

  Authors

  • Mehmet Sayar

  • Hans J. Limbach

  • Christian Holm

    • Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany

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• Growth of Attached Actin Filaments

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 7:00 AM – March 24, 2005, 7:12 AM

  Authors

  • Jie Zhu

  • A. E. Carlsson

    • Physics Department, Washington University in St. Louis

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• Structure and stability of self-assembled actin-lysozyme complexes studied via computer simulation

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 7:12 AM – March 24, 2005, 7:24 AM

  Authors

  • Camilo Guaqueta

  • Erik Luijten

    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801

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• Hierarchical Self Assembly of Actin Bundle Networks

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 7:24 AM – March 24, 2005, 7:36 AM

  Authors

  • Linda Hirst

    • Materials and Physics Depts. Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, UCSB.

  • Linda Hirst

    • Materials and Physics Depts. Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program, UCSB.

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• Elastic actin comet tails: shape, stresses and propulsion

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 7:36 AM – March 24, 2005, 7:48 AM

  Authors

  • Ajay Gopinathan

    • University of California, Santa Barbara
    • UC Santa Barbara

  • Andrea Liu

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• The orientational order parameter of nematic liquid crystalline phase of F-actin

  ORAL

  March 24, 2005, 7:48 AM – March 24, 2005, 8:00 AM

  Authors

  • Jorge Viamontes

  • Jay X. Tang

    • Brown University

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• Actin Filamin networks and stress criticality

  ORAL

  Authors

  • Brian DiDonna

    • University of Minnesota

  • Alex Levine

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • John Crocker

  • Brenton Hoffman

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Order-Order Transition of Size-mismatched Ions on F-actin Polyelectrolytes

  ORAL

  Authors

  • Robert Coridan

    • Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Lori K. Sanders

    • Department of Materials Science \& Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Wujing Xian

    • Department of Materials Science \& Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  • Brian W. Matthews

    • Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Oregon at Eugene

  • Gerard C. L. Wong

    • Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Physics and Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Department of Materials Science \& Engineering, Department of Physics, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Department of Physics, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    • Department of Materials Science \& Engineering, Department of Physics, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois

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• Fingers and Comet Tails--Motility and Morphology in growing actin gels

  ORAL

  Authors

  • Ariel Balter

    • Indiana University

  • Allan Bower

    • Brown University

  • Jay Tang

    • Brown University

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