Focus Session: Cytoskeleton and Biomechanics - Biochemical mechanisms

Presentations

• Stochastic simulations of the growth dynamics and organization of lamellipodia-like actin networks

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 8:00 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Longhua Hu

    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland

  • Garegin Papoian

    • University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland at College Park
    • The University of Maryland
    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland

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• How ion binding affects actin filament stability and flexural rigidity

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 8:12 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Hyeran Kang

    • Yale University

  • Michael Bradley

    • Yale University

  • Brannon McCullough

    • Yale University

  • Ana\"elle Pierre

    • ENS de Cachan, France

  • Elena Grintsevich

    • UCLA

  • Enrique De La Cruz

    • Yale University

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• Mechanotransduction through the plasma membrane {\&} cytoskeleton

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 8:24 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Kristina Haase

    • University of Ottawa

  • Andrew Pelling

    • University of Ottawa

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• Leading at the Front: How EB Proteins Regulate Microtubule Dynamics

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  Feb. 27, 2012, 8:36 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Taviare Hawkins

    • University of Massachusetts-Amherst

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• Redundancy and cooperativity in the mechanics of compositely crosslinked cytoskeletal networks

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 9:12 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • J.M. Schwarz

    • Physics Department, Syracuse University

  • D.Q. Quint

    • University of California Merced
    • School of Natural Sciences, University of California-Merced

  • Moumita Das

    • Syracuse University
    • Department of Physics, Syracuse University
    • Physics Department, Syracuse University

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• The origins of strain stiffening in fibrin networks

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 9:24 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Louise Jawerth

    • Harvard Univeristy

  • Stefan Muenster

    • University of Erlangen, Nuremberg

  • David Weitz

    • Harvard University
    • Department of Physics and Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
    • School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
    • Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States
    • Department of Physics and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

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• Semiflexible filament networks viewed as fluctuating beam frames

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 9:36 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Tianxiang Su

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Prashant Purohit

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Spindle Assembly and Architecture: From Laser Ablation to Microtubule Nucleation

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 9:48 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Daniel Needleman

    • Harvard University
    • Applied Physics \& Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University

  • Jan Brugues

    • Harvard University

  • Valeria Nuzzo

    • Harvard University

  • Eric Mazur

    • Harvard University

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• Coupling stochastic kinetics and mechanics uncovers new dynamics induced by focal adhesions in filopodia

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 10:00 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Maria Minakova

    • University of Maryland at College Park

  • Garegin Papoian

    • University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland at College Park
    • The University of Maryland
    • Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland

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• Growth Cone Biomechanics in Peripheral and Central Nervous System Neurons

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 10:12 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Jeffrey Urbach

    • Department of Physics, Georgetown University
    • Georgetown University

  • Daniel Koch

    • Georgetown University

  • Will Rosoff

    • Georgetown University

  • Herbert Geller

    • NIH

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• An Atomic Force Microscopy based investigation of specific biomechanical properties for various types of neuronal cells

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 10:24 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Elise Spedden

    • Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University

  • James White

    • Physics and Astronomy and Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University

  • David Kaplan

    • Tufts University
    • Biomedical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Tufts University

  • Cristian Staii

    • Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University

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• Nuclear Physics in a biological context

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 10:36 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Dennis Discher

    • Univ. Pennsylvania

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