Focus Session: Cytoskeletal Dynamics and Cell Migration II

Presentations

• Modelling cell motility and pathways that signal to the actin cytoskeleton

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 8, 2007, 6:00 AM – March 8, 2007, 6:36 AM

  Authors

  • Leah Edelstein-Keshet

    • Dept of Mathematics, UBC

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• Migration of a Model Lamellipodium by Actin Polymerization: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Approach

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 6:36 AM – March 8, 2007, 6:48 AM

  Authors

  • Junhwan Jeon

    • Department of Chemical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235
    • Vanderbilt University

  • Peter Cummings

    • Nanomaterials Theory Institute, Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831

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• Intracellular dynamics during directional sensing of chemotactic cells

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 6:48 AM – March 8, 2007, 7:00 AM

  Authors

  • Gabriel Amselem

    • MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen

  • Eberhard Bodenschatz

    • Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization
    • MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen

  • Carsten Beta

    • MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Goettingen

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• Searching strategies in Dictyostelium

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 7:00 AM – March 8, 2007, 7:12 AM

  Authors

  • Liang Li

    • Department of Physics, Princeton University

  • Edward Cox

    • Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University

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• Perturbing Streaming in Dictyostelium Discoideum

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 7:12 AM – March 8, 2007, 7:24 AM

  Authors

  • Colin McCann

    • University of Maryland

  • Paul Kriebel

    • National Institutes of Health

  • Carole Parent

    • National Institutes of Health

  • Erin Rericha

    • University of Maryland

  • Wolfgang Losert

    • University of Maryland

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• Traction cytometry applied to chemotacting \textit{Dictyostelium discoideum}

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 7:24 AM – March 8, 2007, 7:36 AM

  Authors

  • Alberto Aliseda

    • now at University of Washington

  • Baldomero Alonso-Latorre

  • Juan Carlos del Alamo

  • Javier Rodriguez-Rodriguez

    • now at Universidad Carlos III

  • Rudolph Meili

  • Richard Firtel

  • Juan C. Lasheras

    • University of California, San Diego

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• Stem cell cytoskeleton is slaved to active motors

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 7:36 AM – March 8, 2007, 7:48 AM

  Authors

  • Florian Rehfeldt

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Andre Brown

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Adam Engler

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Dennis Discher

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• The Collective Contractile Dynamics of Confluent Epithelial Cells is Highly Coherent

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 7:48 AM – March 8, 2007, 8:00 AM

  Authors

  • Thomas Angelini

    • Harvard University, INEST program

  • Manuel Marquez

    • PMUSA

  • David Weitz

    • Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Physics, Harvard University
    • DEAS, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    • Harvard University
    • DEAS, Harvard University
    • Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138, USA
    • Division of Engineering and Applied Science. Harvard University
    • Applied Physics, Harvard University

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• Membrane fluctuations driven by actin and myosin: waves and quantized division.

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 8:00 AM – March 8, 2007, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Nir Gov

  • Roie Shlomovitz

    • Weizmann Institute of Science

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• Simulation of Actin-Polymerization-Mediated Propulsion

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 8:12 AM – March 8, 2007, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Kun-Chun Lee

    • University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy

  • Andrea Liu

    • University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy
    • University of Pennsylvania
    • University of Pennsylvania Department of Physics and Astronomy

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• Symmetry breaking in actin gels - Implications for cellular motility

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 8:24 AM – March 8, 2007, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Karin John

    • UJF Grenoble, Laboratoire de Spectrom\'etrie Physique

  • Philippe Peyla

    • UJF Grenoble, Laboratoire de Spectrom\'etrie Physique

  • Chaouqi Misbah

    • UJF Grenoble, Laboratoire de Spectrom\'etrie Physique

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• A kinematic description of the trajectories of Listeria monocytogenes propelled by actin comet tails

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 8:36 AM – March 8, 2007, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Dhananjay Tambe

    • Brown University

  • Vivek Shenoy

    • Brown University

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• Steady-state configurations and dynamics of the MreB helix within bacteria

  ORAL

  March 8, 2007, 8:48 AM – March 8, 2007, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Andrew Rutenberg

    • Dalhousie University

  • Jun Allard

    • Dalhousie University

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