Focus Session: Novel Experimental Techniques for Probing Cellular Mechanics

Presentations

• Mechanosensitivity in axon growth and guidance

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 22, 2013, 8:00 AM – March 22, 2013, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Jeff Urbach

    • Department of Physics and Institute for Soft Matter, Georgetown University

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• Electrophysiology of Axonal Constrictions

  ORAL

  March 22, 2013, 8:36 AM – March 22, 2013, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Christopher Johnson

    • Ohio University

  • Peter Jung

    • Ohio University

  • Anthony Brown

    • Department of Neuroscience, Ohio State University
    • Ohio State University

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• Role of biomechanical cues on neuronal growth on asymmetric textured surfaces

  ORAL

  March 22, 2013, 8:48 AM – March 22, 2013, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Cristian Staii

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Nanoscopic Physics, Tufts University

  • Elise Spedden

    • Tufts University
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Nanoscopic Physics, Tufts University

  • Timothy Atherton

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Nanoscopic Physics, Tufts University
    • Department of physics and astronomy, Tufts University, Medford, MA 02155
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tufts University
    • Tufts University

  • Koray Sekeroglu

    • Materials Research Institute and Department of Engineering Science, Pennsylvania State University

  • Melik Demirel

    • Materials Research Institute and Department of Engineering Science, Pennsylvania State University

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• The formation of axonal caliber and nodes of Ranvier

  ORAL

  March 22, 2013, 9:00 AM – March 22, 2013, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Yinyun Li

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University

  • Peter Jung

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ohio University

  • Anthony Brown

    • Department of Neuroscience, Ohio State University
    • Ohio State University

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• Studying neuronal biomechanics and its role in CNS development

  ORAL

  March 22, 2013, 9:12 AM – March 22, 2013, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Kristian Franze

    • University of Cambridge, UK

  • Hanno Svoboda

    • University of Cambridge, UK

  • Luciano da F. Costa

    • University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

  • Jochen Guck

    • University of Cambridge, UK

  • Christine Holt

    • University of Cambridge, UK

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• Contact nanomechanical measurements with the AFM

  ORAL

  March 22, 2013, 9:24 AM – March 22, 2013, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Nicholas Geisse

    • Asylum Research

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• Quantitative nano-mechanics of biological cells with AFM

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 22, 2013, 9:36 AM – March 22, 2013, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Igor Sokolov

    • Tufts University

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• Tracking Cytoskeletal Dynamics in Living Neurons via Combined Atomic Force and Fluorescence Microscopy

  ORAL

  March 22, 2013, 10:12 AM – March 22, 2013, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Elise Spedden

    • Tufts University
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy and Center for Nanoscopic Physics, Tufts University

  • David Kaplan

    • Tufts University

  • Cristian Staii

    • Tufts University

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• Atomic Force Microscopy Based Cell Shape Index

  ORAL

  March 22, 2013, 10:24 AM – March 22, 2013, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Usienemfon Adia-Nimuwa

    • Michigan State University

  • Volkan Mujdat Tiryaki

    • Michigan State University

  • Steven Hartz

    • Michigan State University

  • Kan Xie

    • Michigan State University

  • Virginia Ayres

    • Michigan State University

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• Response of Quiescent Cerebral Cortical Astrocytes to Nanofibrillar Scaffold Properties

  ORAL

  March 22, 2013, 10:36 AM – March 22, 2013, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Virginia Ayres

    • Michigan State University

  • Volkan Mujdat Tiryaki

    • Michigan State University

  • Kan Xie

    • Michigan State University

  • Ijaz Ahmed

    • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  • David I. Shreiber

    • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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