Focus Session: Physics of Cancer I -- Evolution and Resistance

Presentations

• Drug Resistance and the Kinetics of Metastatic Cancer

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  Feb. 27, 2012, 2:30 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Krastan B. Blagoev

    • National Science Foundation

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• Lattice Boltzmann simulations of lymphatic pumping

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 3:06 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Christian Kunert

    • Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard medical school

  • Tim P. Padera

    • Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard medical school

  • Lance L. Munn

    • Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard medical school

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• Mechanical and Structural Changes of the Pericellular Coat during Cell Proliferation

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 3:18 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Louis T. McLane

    • School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Anna Granqvist

    • The Renal Center, The Wallenberg Laboratory for Cardiovascular Research, Sahlgrenska University Hospital

  • Patrick Chang

    • School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Anthony Kramer

    • School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Jennifer E. Curtis

    • Georgia Institute of Technology
    • School of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Can low energy electrons lead to strand breaks in DNA under realistic conditions?

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 3:30 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Jorge Kohanoff

    • Physics, Queens U, Belfast, UK
    • Queen's University, Belfast
    • Atomistic Simulation Centre, Queens University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
    • Queens University Belfast

  • Maeve Smyth

    • Queens University Belfast

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• Emergence of fractal behavior and other changes of cell surface during malignant transformation: AFM study of human cervical epithelial cells

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 3:42 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Maxim Dokukin

    • Clarkson University

  • Nataliia Guz

    • Clarkson University

  • Craig Woodworth

    • Clarkson University

  • Igor Sokolov

    • Clarkson University

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• Improved survival in rats with glioma using MRI-guided focused ultrasound and microbubbles to disrupt the blood-brain barrier and deliver Doxil

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 3:54 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Muna Aryal

    • BWH, Harvard Medical School/Department of Physics, Boston College

  • Yong Zhi Zhang

    • Department of Radiology, BWH, Harvard Medical School

  • Natalia Vykhodtseva

    • Department of Radiology, BWH, Harvard Medical School

  • Juyoung Park

    • Department of Radiology, BWH, Harvard Medical School

  • Chanikarn Power

    • Department of Radiology, BWH, Harvard Medical School

  • Nathan McDannold

    • Department of Radiology, BWH, Harvard Medical School

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• Insights into protein -- DNA interactions, stability and allosteric communications: A computational study of MutS-DNA recognition complexes

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 4:06 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Lacramioara Negureanu

    • Wake Forest University

  • Freddie Salsbury

    • Wake Forest University

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• Glycoprotein Mucin Molecular Brush on Cancer Cells and its Correlation with Resistance Against Drug Delivery

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 4:18 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Xin Wang

    • Northeastern University

  • Aalok Shah

    • Northeastern University

  • Robert Campbell

    • Northeastern University

  • Kai-tak Wan

    • Northeastern University

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• Bcl-2 apoptosis proteins, mitochondrial membrane curvature, and cancer

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 4:30 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Ghee Hwee Lai

    • Physics, UIUC
    • Bioengineering Dept, UCLA

  • Nathan Schmidt

    • Physics, UIUC
    • Bioengineering Dept, UCLA

  • Lori Sanders

    • Materials Science and Engineering, UIUC

  • Abhijit Mishra

    • UCLA
    • Bioengineering, UCLA
    • Bioengineering Dept, UCLA

  • Gerard Wong

    • UCLA
    • Bioengineering, UCLA

  • Olena Ivashyna

    • Cell Biology and Physiology, WUSTL Sch. of Medicine

  • Eric Christenson

    • Cell Biology and Physiology, WUSTL Sch. of Medicine

  • Paul Schlesinger

    • Cell Biology and Physiology, WUSTL Sch. of Medicine

  • Kiyotaka Akabori

    • Physics, U. of Massachusetts

  • Christian Santangelo

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst
    • University of Massachusetts
    • Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
    • Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • Physics, U. of Massachusetts

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• Drift, draft, waves, and ratcheting: evolutionary models of cancer progression

  ORAL

  Feb. 27, 2012, 4:42 PM – Feb. 27, 2012, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Christopher McFarland

    • Harvard University

  • Kirill Korolev

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

  • Leonid Mirny

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

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