Focus Session: Interactions in Biological Systems

Presentations

• Mechanotransduction at the Immunological Synapse

  Invited

  March 4, 2014, 2:30 PM – March 4, 2014, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Cheng Zhu

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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• Immune cell activation from multivalent interactions with liquid-crystalline polycation-DNA complexes

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 3:06 PM – March 4, 2014, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Nathan Schmidt

    • Bioengineering Department, UCLA

  • Fan Jin

    • Polymer Science and Engineering Department, USTC China

  • Roberto Lande

    • Dermatology Department, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland

  • Tine Curk

    • Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge, UK

  • Wujing Xian

    • Bioengineering Department, UCLA

  • Loredana Frasca

    • Dermatology Department, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland

  • Jure Dobnikar

    • Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge, UK

  • Daan Frenkel

    • Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge, UK

  • Michel Gilliet

    • Dermatology Department, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland

  • Gerard Wong

    • Bioengineering Department, UCLA

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• High Fc Density Particles Result in Binary Complement Activation but Tunable Macrophage Phagocytosis

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 3:18 PM – March 4, 2014, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Todd Sulchek

    • Georgia Tech

  • Patricia Pacheco

    • Georgia Tech

  • David White

    • USDA

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• Can correlations among receptors affect the information about the stimulus?

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 3:30 PM – March 4, 2014, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Vijay Singh

    • Emory University, Atlanta, GA

  • Martin Tchernookov

    • Emory University, Atlanta, GA

  • Ilya Nemenman

    • Emory University
    • Emory University, Physics Dept., Biology Dept.
    • Emory University, Atlanta, GA
    • Department of Physics and Department of Biology, Emory University

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• Mechanisms of Cellular De-adhesion

  Invited

  March 4, 2014, 3:42 PM – March 4, 2014, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • James Hone

    • Columbia University

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• Three-component homeostasis control

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 4:18 PM – March 4, 2014, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Jin Xu

    • Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea

  • Hyunsuk Hong

    • Department of Physics and Research Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju 561-756, Korea

  • Junghyo Jo

    • Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics and Department of Physics, POSTECH, Pohang, Korea

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• Surface binding of polymer coated nanoparticles: Coupling of physical interactions, molecular organization, and chemical state

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 4:30 PM – March 4, 2014, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Rikkert Nap

    • Northwestern University, Department of Biomedical Engineering

  • Igal Szleifer

    • Northwestern University, Department of Biomedical Engineering

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• Coherence and energy transport in molecular aggregates: stochastic approach

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 4:42 PM – March 4, 2014, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Darius Abramavicius

    • Theoretical Physics Department, Vilnius University

  • Vytautas Abramavicius

    • Theoretical Physics Department, Vilnius University

  • Vladimir Chorosajev

    • Theoretical Physics Department, Vilnius University

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• Radical-pair Based Avian Magnetoreception: Robustness and Optimality

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 4:54 PM – March 4, 2014, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Maria Procopio

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Thorsten Ritz

    • University of California, Irvine

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• Influence of thermal light correlations on photosynthetic structures

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 5:06 PM – March 4, 2014, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • Adriana De Mendoza

    • Departamento de F\'isica, Universidad de los Andes, AA 4976, Bogot\'a, Colombia

  • Pedro Manrique

    • Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Miami, FL 33124, USA

  • Felipe Caycedo-Soler

    • Institute of Theoretical Physics, Universität Ulm, 89069 Ulm, Germany

  • Neil F. Johnson

    • Department of Physics, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Miami, FL 33124, USA
    • University of Miami, Coral Gables, Miami, FL

  • Ferney J. Rodr\'Iguez

    • Universidad de los Andes
    • Departamento de F\'isica, Universidad de los Andes, AA 4976, Bogot\'a, Colombia
    • Univesidad de los Andes, Bogot\'a, Colombia

  • Luis Quiroga

    • Universidad de los Andes
    • Departamento de F\'isica, Universidad de los Andes, AA 4976, Bogot\'a, Colombia
    • Univesidad de los Andes, Bogot\'a, Colombia

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• Radical-Ion-Pair Spin Decoherence and the Quantum Efficiency of Photosynthetic Charge Separation

  ORAL

  March 4, 2014, 5:18 PM – March 4, 2014, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Iannis Kominis

    • University of Crete - Department of Physics

  • A.T. Dellis

    • NIST, Boulder, USA

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