Soft Mechanics in Biological Systems

Presentations

• State transitions of actin cortices in vitro and in vivo

  ORAL

  March 17, 2016, 2:30 PM – March 17, 2016, 2:42 PM

  Authors

  • Tzer Han Tan

    • Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT

  • Kinneret Keren

    • Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

  • Fred MacKintosh

    • University of Amsterdam
    • Vrije Universiteit

  • Christoph F. Schmidt

    • Goettingen University
    • Third Institute of Physics - Biophysics, Georg August University, Göttingen
    • Univ Goettingen
    • University of Goettingen

  • Nikta Fakhri

    • Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT
    • Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
    • Dept., of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Direct measurement of local material properties within living embryonic tissues

  ORAL

  March 17, 2016, 2:42 PM – March 17, 2016, 2:54 PM

  Authors

  • Friedhelm Serwane

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Alessandro Mongera

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Payam Rowghanian

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • David Kealhofer

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Adam Lucio

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Zachary Hockenbery

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Otger Campas

    • University of California, Santa Barbara
    • University of California - Santa Barbara
    • Univ of California - Santa Barbara

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• The role of anisotropy in cell morphology

  ORAL

  March 17, 2016, 2:54 PM – March 17, 2016, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Koen Schakenraad

    • Univ of Leiden

  • Wim Pomp

    • Univ of Leiden
    • Leiden University

  • Roeland Merks

    • Univ of Leiden, Centrum Wiskunde en Informatica Amsterdam

  • Thomas Schmidt

    • Univ of Leiden
    • Leiden University

  • Luca Giomi

    • Univ of Leiden
    • Leiden University

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• Role of forces and of micromechanics of biopolymers in the cellular process of cell division

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 17, 2016, 3:06 PM – March 17, 2016, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Maria Kilfoil

    • University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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• Hydraulic fracture and resilience of epithelial monolayers under stretch

  ORAL

  March 17, 2016, 3:42 PM – March 17, 2016, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Marino Arroyo

    • Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
    • Univ Politecnica de Catalunya
    • Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

  • Alessandro Lucantonio

    • SISSA–International School for Advanced Studies

  • Giovanni Noselli

    • SISSA-International School for Advanced Studies
    • SISSA–International School for Advanced Studies

  • Laura Casares

    • Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC) / Univ Politecnica de Catalunya

  • Antonio DeSimone

    • SISSA-International School for Advanced Studies
    • SISSA–International School for Advanced Studies

  • Xavier Trepat

    • Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)

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• Mechanics and crack formation in the extracellular matrix with articular cartilage as a model system

  ORAL

  March 17, 2016, 3:54 PM – March 17, 2016, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Sarah Kearns

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Jesse Silverberg

    • Harvard University

  • Lawrence Bonassar

    • Cornell University

  • Itai Cohen

    • Cornell University

  • Moumita Das

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

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• Fiber networks amplify active stress

  ORAL

  March 17, 2016, 4:06 PM – March 17, 2016, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Martin Lenz

    • LPTMS, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France
    • CNRS - Orsay

  • Pierre Ronceray

    • LPTMS, CNRS, Univ. Paris-Sud, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405 Orsay, France

  • Chase Broedersz

    • Arnold-Sommerfeld-Center for Theoretical Physics and Center for NanoScience, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Theresienstrasse 37, D-80333
    • Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Germany

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• A micro-mechanical model to determine changes of collagen fibrils under cyclic loading

  ORAL

  March 17, 2016, 4:18 PM – March 17, 2016, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • Michelle L Chen

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Monica E. Susilo

    • Northeastern University

  • Jeffery Ruberti

    • Northeastern University
    • Department of Bioengineering, Northeastern University

  • Thao Nguyen

    • Johns Hopkins University
    • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
    • Johns Hopkins Univ
    • Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

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• Confined semiflexible biopolymers suppress fluctuations of soft membrane tubes

  ORAL

  March 17, 2016, 4:30 PM – March 17, 2016, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Steven Abel

    • University of Tennessee, Knoxville

  • Sina Mirzaeifard

    • University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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• Force distributions in disordered fiber networks

  ORAL

  March 17, 2016, 4:42 PM – March 17, 2016, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Knut Heidemann

    • Institute for Numerical and Applied Mathematics, Georg-August-Universitaet, Goettingen

  • Abhinav Sharma

    • Third Institute of Physics -- Biophysics, Georg-August-Universitaet, Goettingen

  • Florian Rehfeldt

    • Third Institute of Physics -- Biophysics, Georg-August-Universitaet, Goettingen

  • Christoph F. Schmidt

    • Third Institute of Physics -- Biophysics, Georg-August-Universitaet, Goettingen
    • Universität Göttingen

  • Max Wardetzky

    • Institute for Numerical and Applied Mathematics, Georg-August-Universitaet, Goettingen

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• Role of differential physical properties in the collective mechanics and dynamics of tissues

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 17, 2016, 4:54 PM – March 17, 2016, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Moumita Das

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

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