Focus Session: Micro-Organism Motility

Presentations

• Direct measurement of the propulsion efficiency of bacterium Escherichia Coli

  ORAL

  March 13, 2006, 11:15 AM – March 13, 2006, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Suddhashil Chattopadhyay

  • Radu Moldovan

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260

  • Chuck Yeung

    • School of Science, Penn State Erie, Erie, PA
    • School of Science, Pennsylvania State University at Erie, The Behrend College, Erie, PA 16563

  • Xiao-lun Wu

    • University of Pittsburgh
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260

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• Modeling the motion of microscale synthetic swimmers

  ORAL

  March 13, 2006, 11:27 AM – March 13, 2006, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Alexander Alexeev

  • Victor Yashin

  • Rolf Verberg

    • Chemical Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Anna C. Balazs

    • Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
    • University of Pittsburgh
    • Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261
    • Chemical Engineering Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

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• Detecting the gravitational sensitivity of \textit{Paramecium caudatum} using magnetic forces

  ORAL

  March 13, 2006, 11:39 AM – March 13, 2006, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Karine Guevorkian

  • James M Valles Jr.

    • Brown University

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• Precise adaptation in chemotaxis through ``assistance neighborhoods"

  ORAL

  March 13, 2006, 11:51 AM – March 13, 2006, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Robert Endres

  • Ned Wingreen

    • Princeton University

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• Cellular individuality in the gradient sensing response of \textit{Dictyostelium}

  ORAL

  March 13, 2006, 12:03 PM – March 13, 2006, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Azadeh Samadani

  • Jerome Mettetal

  • Alexander van Oudenaarden

    • MIT

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• How does Dicty find its way?

  ORAL

  March 13, 2006, 12:15 PM – March 13, 2006, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Erin Rericha

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Carole Parent

    • National Institute of Health

  • Wolfgang Losert

    • University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland at College Park

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• Dictyostelium discoideum chemotaxis: threshold for directed motion

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 13, 2006, 12:27 PM – March 13, 2006, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Eberhard Bodenschatz

    • Cornell University ( LFPN) and Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (Goettingen)

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• Impact of Helicobacter Pylori on Mucus Rheology

  ORAL

  March 13, 2006, 1:03 PM – March 13, 2006, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Jonathan Celli

    • Boston University

  • Sarah Keates

  • Ciaran Kelly

  • Bradley Turner

    • Beth Israel Deconess Medical Center

  • Rama Bansil

  • Shyamsunder Erramilli

    • Boston University Department of Physics

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• The effect of viscosity on the contraction of the stalk of \textit{Vorticella Convallaria}

  ORAL

  March 13, 2006, 1:15 PM – March 13, 2006, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Deependra Kantha

  • David Van Winkle

    • Center for Materials Research and Technology and Department of Physics, Florida State University
    • Center for Materials Research and Technology and Physics Department, Florida State University

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• Optimal Foraging Strategy: Angle Matters

  ORAL

  March 13, 2006, 1:27 PM – March 13, 2006, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Udo Erdmann

  • Sebastian G\"oller

  • Igor M. Sokolov

  • Lutz Schimansky-Geier

    • Insitut f\"ur Physik, Humboldt-Universit\"at zu Berlin

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• Nonlinear electromagnetic responses of active molecular motors in live cells and organelles

  ORAL

  March 13, 2006, 1:39 PM – March 13, 2006, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Dharmakirthi Nawarathna

  • Jeffrey Gardner

  • Gustavo Cardenas

  • David Warmflash

  • John Miller

    • Department of Physics and Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston

  • William Widger

    • University of Houston

  • James Claycomb

    • Department of Mathematics and Physics, Houston Baptist University
    • Houston Baptist University

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• Mechanism of formin-associated actin filament elongation

  ORAL

  March 13, 2006, 1:51 PM – March 13, 2006, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Dimitrios Vavylonis

    • Columbia University, Yale University

  • David R. Kovar

    • University of Chicago

  • Ben O'Shaughnessy

    • Columbia University

  • Thomas D. Pollard

    • Yale University

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• Spreading of neutrophils: from activation to migration

  ORAL

  March 13, 2006, 2:03 PM – March 13, 2006, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • Helim Aranda-Espinoza

    • Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Maryland

  • Kheya Sengupta

    • Forschungzentrum Julich, Germany

  • Lee Smith

    • Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

  • Paul Janmey

    • University of Pennsylvania
    • Institute for Medicine and Engineering

  • Daniel Hammer

    • Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania

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