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Session U31: Polymers and Filaments for the Cytoskeleton

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Sponsoring Units: DPOLY DBP
Chair: David Morse, U Minnesota
Room: LACC 503


Thursday, March 24, 2005
8:00AM - 8:12AM

U31.00001: The response to point forces in cytoskeletal networks
Alex J. Levine , Davd Head , Fred C. MacKintosh

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Thursday, March 24, 2005
8:12AM - 8:24AM

U31.00002: Mechanical Response Study of Collagen by means of Molecular Simulation
Pieter J. in 't Veld , Mark J. Stevens

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Thursday, March 24, 2005
8:24AM - 8:36AM

U31.00003: Forced unfolding of protein domains determines cytoskeletal rheology
John Crocker , Brenton Hoffman , Gladys Massiera

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Thursday, March 24, 2005
8:36AM - 8:48AM

U31.00004: Structure and Interactions in Neurofilament Networks
Jayna Jones , M. Ojeda-Lopez , C.R. Safinya

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Thursday, March 24, 2005
8:48AM - 9:00AM

U31.00005: Electrostatic self-assembly between biological polymers \& macroions: Interactions of F-actin \& DNA with lysozyme
Lori K. Sanders , Thomas E. Angelini , Wujing Xian , Brian W. Matthews , Gerard C.L. Wong

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Thursday, March 24, 2005
9:00AM - 9:12AM

U31.00006: Phase Behavior of F-actin
Glenna Z. Sowa , David S. Cannell , Andrea J. Liu , Emil Reisler

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Thursday, March 24, 2005
9:12AM - 9:24AM

U31.00007: Phase behavior of semidilute polyelectrolyte mixtures of F-actin and DNA
Scott Slimmer , John C. Butler , Olena V. Zribi , Ramin Golastanian , Gerard C. L. Wong

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Thursday, March 24, 2005
9:24AM - 9:36AM

U31.00008: Fluorescent Speckle Microrheology of F-actin Networks
Margaret Gardel , Dinah Loerke , Gaudenz Danuser , Clare Waterman-Storer

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Thursday, March 24, 2005
9:36AM - 9:48AM

U31.00009: Entanglement of Semiflexiible Polymers: A Brownian Dynamics Study
Shriram Ramanathan , David Morse

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Thursday, March 24, 2005
9:48AM - 10:00AM

U31.00010: Polyelectrolyte Bundles: Finite size at thermodynamic equilibrium?
Mehmet Sayar , Hans J. Limbach , Christian Holm

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Thursday, March 24, 2005
10:00AM - 10:12AM

U31.00011: Growth of Attached Actin Filaments
Jie Zhu , A. E. Carlsson

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Thursday, March 24, 2005
10:12AM - 10:24AM

U31.00012: Structure and stability of self-assembled actin-lysozyme complexes studied via computer simulation
Camilo Guaqueta , Erik Luijten

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Thursday, March 24, 2005
10:24AM - 10:36AM

U31.00013: Hierarchical Self Assembly of Actin Bundle Networks
Linda Hirst , Cyrus Safinya

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Thursday, March 24, 2005
10:36AM - 10:48AM

U31.00014: Elastic actin comet tails: shape, stresses and propulsion
Ajay Gopinathan , Andrea Liu

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Thursday, March 24, 2005
10:48AM - 11:00AM

U31.00015: The orientational order parameter of nematic liquid crystalline phase of F-actin
Jorge Viamontes , Jay X. Tang

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U31.00016: Actin Filamin networks and stress criticality
Brian DiDonna , Alex Levine , John Crocker , Brenton Hoffman

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U31.00017: Order-Order Transition of Size-mismatched Ions on F-actin Polyelectrolytes
Robert Coridan , Lori K. Sanders , Wujing Xian , Brian W. Matthews , Gerard C. L. Wong

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U31.00018: Fingers and Comet Tails--Motility and Morphology in growing actin gels
Ariel Balter , Allan Bower , Jay Tang

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