Focus Session: Mechanical Structure-Function Relations in Biological Matter II

Presentations

• Heritable adhesion geometries and mechanosensing of surfaces by biofilm-forming bacteria

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 11:15 AM – March 5, 2015, 11:27 AM

  Authors

  • Vernita Gordon

    • The University of Texas at Austin

  • Benjamin Cooley

    • The University of Texas at Austin

  • Chris Rodesney

    • The University of Texas at Austin

  • Numa Dhamani

    • The University of Texas at Austin

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• How the velvet worm squirts slime

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 11:27 AM – March 5, 2015, 11:39 AM

  Authors

  • Andres Concha

    • Adolfo Iba\~{n}ez University
    • School of Engineering and Sciences, Adolfo Iba\~{nez} University, Santiago, Chile.

  • Paula Mellado

    • Adolfo Iba\~{n}ez University

  • Bernal Morera-Brenes

    • Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica

  • Cristiano Sampaio

    • Universidade de Sao Paulo

  • L. Mahadevan

    • Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science
    • Harvard University
    • SEAS, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
    • Harvard
    • School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138,USA.
    • SEAS, Department of organismic and evolutionary biology, Harvard university
    • SEAS, Harvard University
    • Harvard Univ
    • School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute, Harvard University

  • Juli\'{a}n Monge-N\'{a}jera

    • Universidad de Costa Rica

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• Micromechanics of cellularized collagen I networks

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 11:39 AM – March 5, 2015, 11:51 AM

  Authors

  • Christopher Jones

    • Oregon State Univ

  • Matt Cibula

    • Oregon State Univ

  • David McIntyre

    • Oregon State Univ

  • Bo Sun

    • Oregon State Univ
    • Department of Physics, Oregon State University
    • Oregon State University

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• Cellular Contact Guidance Through Dynamic Sensing of Nanotopography

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 11:51 AM – March 5, 2015, 12:03 PM

  Authors

  • Xiaoyu Sun

    • Univ of Maryland-College Park
    • University of Maryland

  • Satarupa Das

    • Univ of Maryland-College Park

  • Can Guven

    • Univ of Maryland-College Park

  • John Fourkas

    • Univ of Maryland-College Park

  • Wolfgang Losert

    • Univ of Maryland-College Park

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• Cardiac tissue as a mechanically and electrically active medium

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 12:03 PM – March 5, 2015, 12:15 PM

  Authors

  • Jason Rocks

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Kevin Chiou

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Andrea Liu

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• The dynamics of body elongation in vertebrate morphogenesis

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 12:15 PM – March 5, 2015, 12:27 PM

  Authors

  • Ido Regev

    • Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science

  • Olivier Pourqui\'e

    • Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital

  • L. Mahadevan

    • Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Science
    • Harvard University
    • SEAS, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
    • Harvard
    • School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138,USA.
    • SEAS, Department of organismic and evolutionary biology, Harvard university
    • SEAS, Harvard University
    • Harvard Univ
    • School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Wyss Institute, Harvard University

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• Quantitative analysis of actin monomer funneling: how capping protein enhances actin filament growth and nucleation on biomimetic beads

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 12:27 PM – March 5, 2015, 12:39 PM

  Authors

  • Ruizhe Wang

    • Washington University

  • Anders Carlsson

    • Washington University
    • Washington University St Louis

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• Measurement of DDR-Collagen interaction Forces with Atomic force Microscopy

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 12:39 PM – March 5, 2015, 12:51 PM

  Authors

  • Anwesha Sarkar

    • Department of Physics \& Astronomy, Wayne State University

  • Rafael Fridman

    • Department of Pathology, Wayne State University

  • Anjum Sohail

    • Department of Pathology, Wayne State University

  • Peter Hoffmann

    • Department of Physics \& Astronomy, Wayne State University
    • Wayne State University

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• Quantitative analysis of mass density fluctuation inside biological cells under the effect of alcohol using light localization properties

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 12:51 PM – March 5, 2015, 1:03 PM

  Authors

  • Hemendra M. Ghimire

    • Univ of Memphis

  • Peeyush Sahay

    • Univ of Memphis

  • Huda Almabadi

    • Univ of Memphis

  • Prabhakar Pradhan

    • Univ of Memphis

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• Arterial mechanobiology: The interrelation of elastin, collagen, and GAGs

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 5, 2015, 1:03 PM – March 5, 2015, 1:39 PM

  Authors

  • Katherine Zhang

    • Boston University

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• Density fluctuations and intercellular fluid flow in epithelial monolayers

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 1:39 PM – March 5, 2015, 1:51 PM

  Authors

  • Steven Zehnder

    • University of Florida

  • Melanie Suaris

    • University of Florida

  • Thomas Angelini

    • University of Florida

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• The effect of antiarrhythmic drugs on rate-dependent cardiac behavior

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 1:51 PM – March 5, 2015, 2:03 PM

  Authors

  • Hana Dobrovolny

    • Texas Christian Univ
    • Texas Christian University

  • Binaya Tuladhar

    • Texas Christian Univ

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