Cellular Biomechanics II

Presentations

• Fibroblast motility on substrates with different rigidities: modeling approach

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 11:15 AM – March 16, 2009, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Maria Gracheva

    • Clarkson University

  • Irina Dokukina

    • Clarkson University

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• Locomotion of C. elegans through jammed granular media

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 11:27 AM – March 16, 2009, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Kevin Lu

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Paulo E. Arratia

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Mechanics of an Ultrafast Cellular Contraction

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 11:39 AM – March 16, 2009, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Gaurav Misra

    • University of Florida

  • Richard B. Dickinson

    • University of Florida

  • Tony Ladd

    • University of Florida

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• Polymer Microlenses for Quantifying Cell Sheet Mechanics

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 11:51 AM – March 16, 2009, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Guillaume Miquelard-Garnier

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Jessica Zimberlin

  • Patricia Wadsworth

  • Alfred Crosby

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

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• Why is Actin Patchy?

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 12:03 PM – March 16, 2009, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Anders Carlsson

    • Washington University in St. Louis

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• Direct dynamical measurement of the cytoskeletal contribution to the adhesion and mechanics of living cells

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 12:15 PM – March 16, 2009, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Marie-Josee Colbert

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University

  • Cecile Fradin

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University

  • Kari Dalnoki-Veress

    • Department of Physics \& Astronomy and the Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, L8S 4M1
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University
    • Dept. Physics \& Astronomy and the Brockhouse Institute of Materials Research, McMaster University

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• Force generated by polymerization of actin filaments: an entropic role?

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 12:27 PM – March 16, 2009, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Jean Baudry

  • Coraline Brangbour

  • Olivia du Roure

  • Emmanu\`ele Helfer

  • Marc Fermigier

  • Paul M. Chaikin

  • Marie-France Carlier

  • Jerome Bibette

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• Cytoskeleton mediated spreading dynamics of immune cells

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 12:39 PM – March 16, 2009, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • King-Lam Hui

    • Department of Physics, University of Maryland

  • Jessica Wayt

    • Department of Physics, University of Maryland

  • Brian Grooman

    • Department of Physics, University of Maryland

  • Arpita Upadhyaya

    • Department of Physics, University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland

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• How deep cells feel: Mean-field Computations and Experiments

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 12:51 PM – March 16, 2009, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Amnon Buxboim

    • University of Philadelphia

  • Shamik Sen

    • University of Philadelphia

  • Dennis E. Discher

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• Tether extrusion from biomimetic cells

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 1:03 PM – March 16, 2009, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Karine Guevorkian

    • Institut Curie

  • L\'ea Laetitia Pontani

    • Institut Curie

  • C\'ecile Sykes

    • Institut Curie

  • Fran\c{c}oise Brochard-Wyart

    • Institut Curie

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• Mechanics of Nascent Cell Adhesions

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 1:15 PM – March 16, 2009, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Cecile O. Mejean

    • Yale University

  • Andrew W. Schaefer

    • Yale University

  • Paul Forscher

    • Yale University

  • Eric R. Dufresne

    • Yale University

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• Epithelial Mechanics during Germband Retraction in Fruit Fly Embryogenesis

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 1:27 PM – March 16, 2009, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Xiaoyan Ma

    • Dept of Physics \& Astronomy, Vanderbilt University

  • Holley E. Lynch

    • Dept of Physics \& Astronomy, Vanderbilt University

  • M. Shane Hutson

    • Dept of Physics \& Astronomy, Vanderbilt University

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• Matrix elasticity directs stem cell differentiation in 3D too

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 1:39 PM – March 16, 2009, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Dennis Discher

    • MRSEC, University of Pennsylvania
    • University of Pennsylvania
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

  • Florian Rehfeldt

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Dennis Discher

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Cell response to long term mechanical interaction with nanopipettes

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 1:51 PM – March 16, 2009, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Bradley Layton

  • Gary Friedman

  • Yury Gogotsi

  • Zulfiya Orynbayeva

    • Drexel University

  • Riju Singhal

  • Elina Vitol

  • Michael Bouchard

  • Jane Azizkhan-Clifford

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• Gold Nanoparticles effect on Human Dermal Fibroblast

  ORAL

  March 16, 2009, 2:03 PM – March 16, 2009, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • Tatsiana Mironava

    • SUNY at Stony Brook

  • Nadine Pernodet

    • SUNY at Stony Brook

  • Miriam Rafailovich

    • Stony Brook University
    • SUNY at Stony Brook

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