Focus Session: Migration of Cells, Droplets, and Particles on Substrates: Mostly Active Nematics

Presentations

• Collisions of deformable cells lead to collective migration

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 8:00 AM – March 5, 2015, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Igor Aronson

    • Argonne National Laboratory
    • Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois 60439, USA

  • Jakob L\"ober

    • Technical University of Berlin, Germany

  • Falko Ziebert

    • Albert-Ludwig-University, Freiburg, Germany

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• A self-propelled particle model with experimentally quantified cell polarization

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 8:12 AM – March 5, 2015, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Giuseppe Passucci

    • Syracuse University

  • Megan E. Brasch

    • Syracuse University

  • Nicholas O. Deakin

    • SUNY Upstate Medical

  • Christopher E. Turner

    • SUNY Upstate Medical

  • James H. Henderson

    • Syracuse University

  • M. Lisa Manning

    • Syracuse University

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• Modeling traction forces in collective cell migration

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 8:24 AM – March 5, 2015, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Juliane Zimmermann

    • Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University

  • Markus Basan

    • Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego

  • Ryan L. Hayes

    • Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University

  • Wouter-Jan Rappel

    • Department of Physics, University of California at San Diego

  • Herbert Levine

    • Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University

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• Mimicking the Interfacial Dynamics of Flowing White Blood Cells

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 5, 2015, 8:36 AM – March 5, 2015, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Maria Santore

    • University of Massachusetts

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• ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN

  March 5, 2015, 9:12 AM – March 5, 2015, 9:24 AM

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• Long Range Order of Motile Defects in Active Nematic Liquid Crystals

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 9:24 AM – March 5, 2015, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Stephen DeCamp

    • Brandeis University

  • Gabriel Redner

    • Brandeis University

  • Michael Hagan

    • Brandeis University

  • Zvonimir Dogic

    • Brandeis University
    • Brandeis Univesity
    • Brandeis Univ

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• Defect-Stabilized Phases in Extensile Active Nematics

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 9:36 AM – March 5, 2015, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Gabriel Redner

    • Brandeis University

  • Stephen DeCamp

    • Brandeis University

  • Zvonimir Dogic

    • Brandeis University

  • Michael Hagan

    • Brandeis University

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• Worms on a plane: simulation studies of an active nematic phase of flexible chains

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 9:48 AM – March 5, 2015, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Michael Varga

    • Kent State Univ - Kent

  • Mohammad Najafi

    • Kent State Univ - Kent

  • Robin Selinger

    • Kent State Univ - Kent
    • Kent State University

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• Instabilities and patterns in an active nematic film

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 10:00 AM – March 5, 2015, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Pragya Srivastava

    • Physics Department, Syracuse University, NY-13244

  • Cristina Marchetti

    • Syracuse University
    • Syracuse Univ
    • Physics Department, Syracuse University, NY-13244

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• Dynamics of an overdamped active nematic liquid crystal

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 10:12 AM – March 5, 2015, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Elias Putzig

    • Brandeis University

  • Aparna Baskaran

    • Brandeis Univ
    • Brandeis University

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• The geometry and topology of turbulence in active nematics

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 10:24 AM – March 5, 2015, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Luca Giomi

    • Univ of Leiden

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• Instabilities and boundary effects in a droplet of active polar liquid crystal

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 10:36 AM – March 5, 2015, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Carl Whitfield

    • University of Sheffield

  • Rhoda Hawkins

    • University of Sheffield

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• Interacting active elastic dimers: Two cells moving on a rigid track

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 10:48 AM – March 5, 2015, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Moumita Das

    • Rochester Institute of Technology
    • Rochester Inst of Tech

  • David Mayett

    • Syracuse University

  • J. M. Schwarz

    • Syracuse University

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