Focus Session: Cytoskeletal Dynamics and Cell Motility I

Presentations

• Actin Disassembly Mediated by Severing, Debranching, and Hydrolysis

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 12, 2008, 7:00 AM – March 12, 2008, 7:36 AM

  Authors

  • Anders Carlsson

    • Washington University in St. Louis

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• A Possible Role for a Viscous Fingering-Type Instability in Cell Motility

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 7:36 AM – March 12, 2008, 7:48 AM

  Authors

  • Andrew Callan-Jones

    • Institut Curie-Phyiscal Chemistry Laboratory

  • Jean-Francois Joanny

    • Institut Curie Paris France
    • Institut Curie-Phyiscal Chemistry Laboratory

  • Jacques Prost

    • Institut Curie-Phyiscal Chemistry Laboratory/ESPCI

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• The Stochastic Dynamics of Filopodial Growth

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 7:48 AM – March 12, 2008, 8:00 AM

  Authors

  • Garegin Papoian

    • Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290
    • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    • Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3290

  • Yueheng Lan

    • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    • Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3290

  • Pavel Zhuravlev

    • The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    • Department of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3290

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• Mechanics of Lamellipodia

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 8:00 AM – March 12, 2008, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • D. A. Quint

    • Syracuse University

  • J. M. Schwarz

    • Syracuse University

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• Assembly Mechanism of the Contractile Ring for Cytokinesis by Fission Yeast

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 8:12 AM – March 12, 2008, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Dimitrios Vavylonis

    • Lehigh University

  • Jian-Qiu Wu

    • Ohio State University

  • Xiaolei Huang

    • Lehigh University

  • Ben O'Shaughnessy

    • Columbia University

  • Thomas Pollard

    • Yale University

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• Nonlinear elasticity of composite networks of stiff biopolymers with flexible linkers

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 8:24 AM – March 12, 2008, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Chase Broedersz

    • Vrije Universiteit

  • C. Storm

    • Vrije Universiteit and Universiteit Leiden

  • Fred MacKintosh

    • Vrije Universiteit

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• Effects of Osmotic Force and Torque on Microtubule Bundling and Pattern Formation

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 8:36 AM – March 12, 2008, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Yongxing Guo

    • Physics Department, Brown Univ.

  • Yifeng Liu

    • Physics Department, Brown Univ.

  • Rudolf Oldenbourg

    • Marine Biological Laboratory

  • Jay Tang

    • Brown University
    • Physics Department, Brown Univ.

  • James Valles

    • Physics Department, Brown Univ.

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• Buckling and force propagation in intracellular microtubules

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 8:48 AM – March 12, 2008, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Moumita Das

    • Vrije Universiteit

  • Alex Levine

    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
    • University of California, Los Angeles
    • Department of Chemistry \& Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles
    • UCLA, Department of Chemistry \& Biochemistry

  • Fred MacKintosh

    • Vrije Universiteit

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• Hydrodynamic tether extrusion from ``gelly'' vesicles

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 9:00 AM – March 12, 2008, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Karine Guevorkian

    • Institut Curie

  • Sebastien Kremer

    • Institut Curie

  • Francoise Brochard-Wyart

    • Institut Curie

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• Living Microlens Arrays

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 9:12 AM – March 12, 2008, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Jessica Zimberlin

    • University of Massachusetts

  • Patricia Wadsworth

    • University of Massachusetts

  • Alfred Crosby

    • Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts
    • Dept. of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts
    • University of Massachusetts Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts - Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts-Amherst

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• Local viscoelasticity of the surfaces of individual Gram-negative bacterial cells measured using atomic force microscopy

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 9:24 AM – March 12, 2008, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Virginia Vadillo-Rodriguez

    • University of Guelph

  • Terry Beveridge

    • University of Guelph

  • John Dutcher

    • University of Guelph

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• Stall Force and Response of Lung Cilia

  ORAL

  March 12, 2008, 9:36 AM – March 12, 2008, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Richard Superfine

    • University of North Carolina

  • David Hill

    • University of North Carolina

  • Vinay Swaminathan

    • University of North Carolina

  • E. Timothy O'Brien

    • University of North Carolina

  • Ric Boucher

  • Brian Button

  • Ashley Estes

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