Focus Session: Cytoskeletal Dynamics

Presentations

• Isotropic, nematic and polarized states in active motor-filament solutions

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 8:00 AM – March 16, 2006, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Aphrodite Ahmadi

  • M. Cristina Marchetti

    • Syracuse University
    • Physics Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244

  • Tanniemola Liverpool

    • Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
    • University of Leeds, U.K.

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• Rheology of active polymer solutions

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 8:12 AM – March 16, 2006, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • M. Cristina Marchetti

    • Syracuse University
    • Physics Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244

  • Tanniemola B. Liverpool

    • Leeds University, UK
    • Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.

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• Thermally Controlling the Polymeric Cytoskeleton in Living Cells

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 8:24 AM – March 16, 2006, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Chao-Min Cheng

  • Philip LeDuc

    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

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• How to detect single cancer cell?

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 8:36 AM – March 16, 2006, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • N. Pernodet

    • SUNY
    • Stony Brook Univ Stony Brook NY

  • Jessica Fields

    • Princeton

  • Lenny Slutsky

    • Duke

  • Taylor Bernheim

  • Kaustabh Ghosh

  • Shouren Ge

  • M. Rafailovich

    • SUNY
    • Dept. of Materials Science, SUNY at Stony Brook
    • Department of Materials Science, SUNY at Stony Brook
    • Dept. of Mat. Sci. and Engr,, State Univ. of New York at Stony Brook
    • Stony Brook Univ Stony Brook NY

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• The Effects of Chronological Age on the Cellular Mechanics of Human Dermal Fibroblasts

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 8:48 AM – March 16, 2006, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Z. Pan

  • V. Hung

  • S. Kambhampati

  • Shouren Ge

  • M. Rafailovich

    • Program in Chemical and Molecular Engineering, SUNY at Stony Brook
    • Yeshivah University High School
    • Stony Brook University
    • Mat Sci \& Eng Dept,SUNY Stony Brook
    • Dept Of Materials Science and Engineering, SUNY Stonybrook

  • K. Ghosh

  • Richard Clark

    • BME Dept, SUNY Stony Brook
    • Dept. of Biomedical Engr., SUNY at Stony Brook

  • Y.J. Liu

  • T. Nakamura

    • Mech Eng Dept, SUNY Stony Brook

  • Xiaozheng Shu

    • Dept. of Medicinal Chemistry, the University of Utah

  • G. Prestwich

    • Med Chem Dept, Univ. Utah

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• Interplay between crosslinkers and dynamic molecular motor-induced instabilities in the moderation of biopolymer organization

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 9:00 AM – March 16, 2006, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • David Smith

    • University of Leipzig, Institute for Soft Matter Physics

  • David Humphrey

    • Center for Nonlinear Dynamics, University of Texas at Austin

  • Falko Ziebert

  • Walter Zimmermann

    • Physikalisches Institut, Universit\"{a}t Bayreuth

  • Josef K\"{a}s

    • University of Leipzig, Institute for Soft Matter Physics

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• The mechanics of cell protrusion

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 16, 2006, 9:12 AM – March 16, 2006, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Gaudenz Danuser

    • The Scripps Research Institute

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• Tensile Force Generation by Actin-Myosin Networks

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 9:48 AM – March 16, 2006, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Anders Carlsson

    • Washington University in St. Louis
    • Washington University

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• Simulation of Actin-Polymerization Near Moving Surface

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 10:00 AM – March 16, 2006, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Kun-Chun Lee

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Andrea Liu

    • University of Pennsylvania
    • Physics Dept, Univ. of Pennsylvania

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• The Fysics of Filopodia (or The Physics of Philopodia)

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 10:12 AM – March 16, 2006, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Jen Schwarz

    • Cambridge University
    • Syracuse University

  • Ajay Gopinathan

    • Department of Phyics, University of California, Santa Barbara
    • UCSB
    • University of California Santa Barbara
    • Physics Dept., Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

  • Kun-Chun Lee

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Andrea Liu

    • University of Pennsylvania
    • Physics Dept, Univ. of Pennsylvania

  • Jen Schwarz

    • Cambridge University
    • Syracuse University

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• Lipid-Protein Nanotubes with Open or Closed Ends, Microtubules Bundles and Inverted Tubulin Nanotubes

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 10:24 AM – March 16, 2006, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Uri Raviv

  • Daniel J. Needleman

  • Miguel A. Ojeda-Lopez

  • Youli Li

  • Herb P. Miller

  • Leslie Wilson

  • Cyrus R. Safinya

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

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• The mechanics of cell crawling over a flat surface

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 10:36 AM – March 16, 2006, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Baldomero Alonso-Latorre

  • Javier Rodriguez-Rodriguez

  • Alberto Aliseda

  • Rudolf Meili

  • Richard Firtel

  • Juan Lasheras

    • UC San Diego

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• Micromechanical Properties of Endothelial Cell Cytoskeleton

  ORAL

  March 16, 2006, 10:48 AM – March 16, 2006, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Meron Mengistu

  • Linda Lowe-Krentz

  • H. Daniel Ou-Yang

    • Physics Dept., Lehigh University
    • Lehigh University

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