Session B39: Cellular Biomechanics II

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Sponsoring Units: DBP
Chair: Arpita Upadhyaya, University of Maryland
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Monday, March 16, 2009
11:15AM - 11:27AM

B39.00001: Fibroblast motility on substrates with different rigidities: modeling approach
Maria Gracheva , Irina Dokukina

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Monday, March 16, 2009
11:27AM - 11:39AM

B39.00002: Locomotion of C. elegans through jammed granular media
Kevin Lu , Paulo E. Arratia

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Monday, March 16, 2009
11:39AM - 11:51AM

B39.00003: Mechanics of an Ultrafast Cellular Contraction
Gaurav Misra , Richard B. Dickinson , Tony Ladd

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Monday, March 16, 2009
11:51AM - 12:03PM

B39.00004: Polymer Microlenses for Quantifying Cell Sheet Mechanics
Guillaume Miquelard-Garnier , Jessica Zimberlin , Patricia Wadsworth , Alfred Crosby

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Monday, March 16, 2009
12:03PM - 12:15PM

B39.00005: Why is Actin Patchy?
Anders Carlsson

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Monday, March 16, 2009
12:15PM - 12:27PM

B39.00006: Direct dynamical measurement of the cytoskeletal contribution to the adhesion and mechanics of living cells
Marie-Josee Colbert , Cecile Fradin , Kari Dalnoki-Veress

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Monday, March 16, 2009
12:27PM - 12:39PM

B39.00007: Force generated by polymerization of actin filaments: an entropic role?
Jean Baudry , Coraline Brangbour , Olivia du Roure , Emmanu\`ele Helfer , Marc Fermigier , Paul M. Chaikin , Marie-France Carlier , Jerome Bibette

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Monday, March 16, 2009
12:39PM - 12:51PM

B39.00008: Cytoskeleton mediated spreading dynamics of immune cells
King-Lam Hui , Jessica Wayt , Brian Grooman , Arpita Upadhyaya

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Monday, March 16, 2009
12:51PM - 1:03PM

B39.00009: How deep cells feel: Mean-field Computations and Experiments
Amnon Buxboim , Shamik Sen , Dennis E. Discher

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Monday, March 16, 2009
1:03PM - 1:15PM

B39.00010: Tether extrusion from biomimetic cells
Karine Guevorkian , L\'ea Laetitia Pontani , C\'ecile Sykes , Fran\c{c}oise Brochard-Wyart

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Monday, March 16, 2009
1:15PM - 1:27PM

B39.00011: Mechanics of Nascent Cell Adhesions
Cecile O. Mejean , Andrew W. Schaefer , Paul Forscher , Eric R. Dufresne

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Monday, March 16, 2009
1:27PM - 1:39PM

B39.00012: Epithelial Mechanics during Germband Retraction in Fruit Fly Embryogenesis
Xiaoyan Ma , Holley E. Lynch , M. Shane Hutson

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Monday, March 16, 2009
1:39PM - 1:51PM

B39.00013: Matrix elasticity directs stem cell differentiation in 3D too
Allison Zajac , Florian Rehfeldt , Dennis Discher

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Monday, March 16, 2009
1:51PM - 2:03PM

B39.00014: Cell response to long term mechanical interaction with nanopipettes
Zulfiya Orynbayeva , Riju Singhal , Elina Vitol , Michael Bouchard , Jane Azizkhan-Clifford , Bradley Layton , Gary Friedman , Yury Gogotsi

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Monday, March 16, 2009
2:03PM - 2:15PM

B39.00015: Gold Nanoparticles effect on Human Dermal Fibroblast
Tatsiana Mironava , Nadine Pernodet , Miriam Rafailovich

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