Mechanics of Biomolecular Systems II

Presentations

• Non-monotonic wave dispersion in one-dimensional spiral track of cardiac cells

  ORAL

  March 19, 2009, 8:00 AM – March 19, 2009, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Tae Yun Kim

    • Center for Cell Dynamics and Department of Physics, Korea University

  • Okyu Kwon

    • Center for Cell Dynamics and Department of Physics, Korea University

  • Kyoung J. Lee

    • Center for Cell Dynamics and Department of Physics, Korea University

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• Periodic reversals allow bacteria to swarm

  ORAL

  March 19, 2009, 8:12 AM – March 19, 2009, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Yilin Wu

    • University of Notre Dame

  • Dale Kaiser

    • Stanford University

  • Yi Jiang

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Mark Alber

    • University of Notre Dame

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• Do Recurved Sensory Organs in Drosophila Form Through a Turing-Type Bifurcation?

  ORAL

  March 19, 2009, 8:24 AM – March 19, 2009, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Huifeng Zhu

    • Department of Physics University of Houston

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• Sisyphus at the Nanoscale: Bacterial Topotaxis in a Microfabricated Environment

  ORAL

  March 19, 2009, 8:36 AM – March 19, 2009, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Guillaume Lambert

    • Princeton University
    • Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544

  • Peter Galajda

    • TU Delft
    • Delft University of Technology, CJ Delft, The Netherlands

  • David Liao

    • Princeton University
    • Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544

  • Robert H. Austin

    • Princeton University
    • Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544

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• Microrheology of swimming bacteria suspension.

  ORAL

  March 19, 2009, 8:48 AM – March 19, 2009, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Andrey Sokolov

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Igor Aranson

    • Argonne National Laboratory
    • Argonne National Lab

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• Microrheology of Actin Network Depends on Probe Size, Surface Chemistry and Depletion Effect

  ORAL

  March 19, 2009, 9:00 AM – March 19, 2009, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Jun He

    • Brown University

  • Jay Tang

    • Brown University

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• Mechanics of biomimetic systems propelled by actin comet tails

  ORAL

  March 19, 2009, 9:12 AM – March 19, 2009, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Hyeran Kang

    • Department of Physics, Brown University

  • Dhananjay Tambe

    • School of Public Health, Harvard University

  • Vivek Shenoy

    • Division of Engineering, Brown University
    • Brown University

  • Jay Tang

    • Department of Physics, Brown University

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• Generalized rules for the optimization of elastic network models

  ORAL

  March 19, 2009, 9:24 AM – March 19, 2009, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Timothy Lezon

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Eran Eyal

    • University of Pittsburgh

  • Ivet Bahar

    • University of Pittsburgh
    • Department of Computaional Biology, Univeristy of Pittsburgh

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• Pulling helices inside bacteria: imperfect helices and rings

  ORAL

  March 19, 2009, 9:36 AM – March 19, 2009, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Andrew Rutenberg

    • Dalhousie University

  • Jun Allard

    • University of British Columbia

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• Bending rigidity of type I collagen homotrimer fibrils

  ORAL

  March 19, 2009, 9:48 AM – March 19, 2009, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Sejin Han

    • University of Maryland

  • Sergey Leikin

    • National Institutes of Health

  • Wolfgang Losert

    • University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland, College Park

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• Surface manipulation of protein filaments

  ORAL

  March 19, 2009, 10:00 AM – March 19, 2009, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Laurent Kreplak

    • Dalhousie University

  • Douglas Staple

    • Dalhousie University

  • Marko Loparic

    • Biozentrum, University of Basel

  • Hans-Juergen Kreuzer

    • Dalhousie University

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• Multiscale Mechanics of Fibrin Polymer

  ORAL

  March 19, 2009, 10:12 AM – March 19, 2009, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Andre Brown

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Rustem Litvinov

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Dennis Discher

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Prashant Purohit

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • John Weisel

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Cardiomyocytes beat best on a matrix with heart-like elasticity -- Molecular mechanics of the changes

  ORAL

  March 19, 2009, 10:24 AM – March 19, 2009, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Christine Carag

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Adam Engler

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Dennis Discher

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Dynamic Viscoelasticity of Individual Bacterial Cells

  ORAL

  March 19, 2009, 10:36 AM – March 19, 2009, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Virginia Vadillo-Rodriguez

    • University of Guelph

  • John Dutcher

    • University of Guelph
    • Department of Physics, University of Guelph

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