Focus Session: Cytoskeleton and Biomechanics - Entanglement and Crosslinking

Presentations

• Seeing is believing: New insight into structure-mechanics relationships in entangled and crosslinked microtubule networks

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  Feb. 27, 2012, 11:15 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Megan Valentine

    • Department of Mechanical Engineering; University of California Santa Barbara
    • University of California, Santa Barbara

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• Actin filament curvature biases branching direction

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 11:51 AM – Feb. 27, 2012, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Evan Wang

    • UC Berkeley

  • Viviana Risca

    • UC Berkeley

  • Ovijit Chaudhuri

    • Harvard University

  • Jia-Jun Chia

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Phillip Geissler

    • UC Berkeley

  • Daniel Fletcher

    • UC Berkeley

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• Condensation of F-Actin by Dimensional Reduction

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 12:03 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Robijn Bruinsma

    • UCLA
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Los Angeles
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCLA

  • Cyron Christian

    • Mechanical Engineering, Technical University, Munich, Germany

  • Kei Mueller

    • Mechanical Engineering, Technical University, Munich, Germany

  • Andreas Bausch

    • Chair Cell Biophysics E27, Technical University, Muenchen, Germany

  • Wolfgang Wall

    • Mechanical Engineering, Technical University, Munich, Germany

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• Stress Enhanced Gelation in $\alpha$-Actinin-4 Cross-linked Actin Networks

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 12:15 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Norman Yao

    • Harvard University

  • Chase Broedersz

    • Princeton University

  • Martin Depken

    • Vrije Universiteit

  • Daniel Becker

    • Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

  • Martin Pollak

    • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School

  • Frederick MacKintosh

    • VU University
    • Vrije Universiteit

  • 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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• Simulations and theory of model microtubule self-assembly

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 12:27 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Mark Stevens

    • Sandia National Laboratories
    • Sandia National Labs

  • Shengfeng Cheng

    • Sandia National Laboratories
    • Sandia National Labs

  • Ankush Aggarwal

    • U. California at Los Angeles

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• Dynamical Length-Regulation of Microtubules

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 12:39 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Anna Melbinger

    • Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
    • Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich

  • Louis Reese

    • Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
    • Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich

  • Erwin Frey

    • Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
    • Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, Germany
    • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen
    • Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\"at M\"unchen
    • Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich

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• On the origins and extent of mechanical variation among cells

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 12:51 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • John Maloney

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Eric Lehnhardt

    • Arizona State University

  • Krystyn Van Vliet

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Non-Equilibrium Cell Mechanics Studied with a Dual Optical Trap

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 1:03 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 1:15 PM

  Authors

  • Florian Schlosser

    • Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Germany

  • Florian Rehfeldt

    • Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Germany

  • Christoph F. Schmidt

    • Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Georg August Universitaet Goettingen
    • Drittes Physikalisches Institut, Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen, Germany

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• M {\&} M's: Mechanosensitivity and Mechanotransduction in Myoblasts

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 1:15 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 1:27 PM

  Authors

  • Zeinab Al-Rekabi

    • University of Ottawa

  • Andrew Pelling

    • University of Ottawa

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• Polymer Coated Surface Acoustic Wave Biosensor for Living Cells

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 1:27 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Lian Dai

    • ECE U. Mass Lowell

  • JianPing Zhang

    • Biology U. mass Lowell

  • Abiche DeWilde

    • Biology U. mass Lowell

  • Gang Wang

    • Biology U. mass Lowell

  • Kenneth Marx

    • Chemistry U. Mass Lowell

  • Susan Braunhut

    • Biology U. mass Lowell

  • Joel Therrien

    • ECE U. Mass Lowell

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• Modeling spinal cord biomechanics

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 1:39 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Carlos Luna

    • Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland

  • Sameer Shah

    • Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering University of California, San Diego

  • Avis Cohen

    • Department of Biology and Institute of Systems Research, University of Maryland

  • Helim Aranda-Espinoza

    • Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland
    • University of Maryland

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• Matrix elasticity perturbation and Lamin-A/C expression in stem cells modulate their mechanics and lineage specification

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 1:51 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Irena Ivanovska

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Dennis Discher

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Simulation of Second Harmonic Generation from Heterogeneous Microtubule Structures

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 2:03 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 2:15 PM

  Authors

  • Noah Langowitz

    • Harvard University

  • Che-Hang Yu

    • Harvard University

  • Daniel Needleman

    • Harvard University

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