Physics of Bacteria II

Presentations

• Cell shape acquisition and maintenance in rodlike bacteria

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 8:00 AM – March 16, 2010, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Sven van Teeffelen

    • Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544

  • Ned Wingreen

    • Princeton University
    • Dept. of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
    • Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544

  • Zemer Gitai

    • Dept. of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
    • Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544

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• Cell-wall dynamics in growing bacteria

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 8:12 AM – March 16, 2010, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Leon Furchtgott

    • Stanford Department of Bioengineering

  • Ned Wingreen

    • Princeton Department of Molecular Biology

  • Kerwyn Casey Huang

    • Stanford Department of Bioengineering

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• Computational assessment of the stiffness of the Gram-negative bacterial cell wall

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 8:24 AM – March 16, 2010, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Sandhya Sinha

  • Yao Zhao

  • K.C. Huang

    • Stanford University

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• The role of spatial asymmetries in the development of the bacterium \textit{Caulobacter crescentus}

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 8:36 AM – March 16, 2010, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Carolina Tropini

  • Erin Chen

  • Stephen Sciochetti

  • Austin Newton

  • Michael Laub

  • Kerwyn Casey Huang

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• Bacteria in Confined Spaces

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 8:48 AM – March 16, 2010, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Connie Wilking

    • Harvard University

  • David Weitz

    • Harvard University
    • Physics, Harvard
    • SEAS, Harvard University

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• Microbial Nanowire Electronic Structure Probed by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 9:00 AM – March 16, 2010, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Joshua P. Veazey

    • Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University

  • Sanela Lampa-Pastirk

    • Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University

  • Gemma Reguera

    • Dept. of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University

  • Stuart H. Tessmer

    • Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University

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• Viability of adhered bacterial cells: tracking MinD protein oscillations

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 9:12 AM – March 16, 2010, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Matt Barrett

    • University of Guelph

  • Keegan Colville

    • Dalhousie University

  • Chris Schultz-Nielsen

    • University of Guelph

  • Manfred Jericho

    • Dalhousie University

  • John Dutcher

    • University of Guelph

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• Curved microchannels and bacterial streamers

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 9:24 AM – March 16, 2010, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Roberto Rusconi

    • Harvard University
    • Harvard University SEAS

  • Sigolene Lecuyer

    • Harvard University
    • Harvard University SEAS

  • Laura Guglielmini

    • Princeton University

  • Howard Stone

    • Princeton University
    • Princeton University MAE

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• Physical properties of native bacterial biofilm cells measured by atomic force microscopy

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 9:36 AM – March 16, 2010, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Kathy Aidala

    • Mount Holyoke College

  • Catherine Volle

    • Brown University

  • Megan Ferguson

    • SUNY, New Paltz

  • Eileen Spain

    • Occidental College

  • Megan Nunez

    • Mount Holyoke College

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  March 16, 2010, 9:48 AM – March 16, 2010, 10:00 AM

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• Growth mechanics of bacterial cell wall and morphology of bacteria

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 10:00 AM – March 16, 2010, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Hongyuan Jiang

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Sean Sun

    • Johns Hopkins University

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• Intercellular interactions~in early biofilm formation probed with image analysis and~laser trapping

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 10:12 AM – March 16, 2010, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Fan Jin

    • UCLA

  • Vernita Gordon

    • UIUC

  • Jacinta Conrad

    • U. of Houston
    • Univ. of Houston

  • Maxsim Gibiansky

    • UCLA

  • Nyrene Haque

    • UIUC

  • Dominick Motto

    • Notre Dame

  • Margie Mathewson

    • UIUC

  • Gabe Spalding

  • Matthew Parsek

    • U. of Washington

  • Joshua Shrout

    • Notre Dame

  • Gerard C.L. Wong

    • University of California, Los Angeles
    • UCLA
    • Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and Department of Bioengineering, UCLA

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• Genetic Control of Rheology in Bacterial Biofilms

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 10:24 AM – March 16, 2010, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • James Wilking

    • Harvard University
    • SEAS, Harvard University

  • Michael Brenner

    • Harvard University
    • Harvard SEAS
    • School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
    • SEAS, Harvard University

  • David Weitz

    • Harvard University
    • Physics, Harvard
    • SEAS, Harvard University

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• Atomic Force Microscope Investigations of Biofilms Treated with Gas Discharge Plasmas

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 10:36 AM – March 16, 2010, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Kurt Vandervoort

    • Physics Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA

  • Gregory Stough

    • Physics Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA

  • Anna Zelaya

    • Biology Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA

  • Graciela Brelles-Marino

    • Biology Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA

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• Relationship between model bacterial peptidoglycan network structures and AFM force-distance curves

  ORAL

  March 16, 2010, 10:48 AM – March 16, 2010, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Aidan Brown

    • University of Guelph

  • Robert Wickham

    • University of Guelph

  • Ahmed Touhami

    • University of Texas at Brownsville

  • John Dutcher

    • University of Guelph

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