Session A39: Cellular Biomechanics I

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Sponsoring Units: DBP
Chair: Jennifer Schwarz, Syracuse University
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Monday, March 16, 2009
8:00AM - 8:12AM

A39.00001: Loss of an actin crosslinker uncouples cell spreading from cell stiffening on gels with a gradient of stiffness
Qi Wen , Fitzroy J. Byfield , Kerstin Nordstrom , Paulo E. Arratia , R.Tyler Miller , Paul A. Janmey

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Monday, March 16, 2009
8:12AM - 8:24AM

A39.00002: Substrate Induced Osteoblast-Like Differentiation of Stromal Stem Cells
Jacqueline Belizar , Reena Glaser , Matthew Hung , Marcia Simon , Vladimir Jurukovski , Miriam Rafailovich , Alice Shih

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Monday, March 16, 2009
8:24AM - 8:36AM

A39.00003: Mechanical anisotropy of viscoelasticity in biological cells
Ming-Tzo Wei , H.D. Ou-Yang

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Monday, March 16, 2009
8:36AM - 8:48AM

A39.00004: Traction forces associated with shape changes in migrating amoeboid cells
Baldomero Alonso-Latorre , Juan C. del Alamo , Effie Bastounis , Rudolph Meili , Richard Firtel , Juan C. Lasheras

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Monday, March 16, 2009
8:48AM - 9:00AM

A39.00005: Imaging spatiotemporal redistribution of cellular traction stresses during fibroblast migration on a physiologically relevant ECM mimic
Zhi Pan , Yajie Liu , Kaustabh Ghosh , Dhruv Nandamudi , Danny Stemp , Toshio Nakamura , Richard Clark , Miriam Rafailovich

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Monday, March 16, 2009
9:00AM - 9:12AM

A39.00006: Achieving in-vitro axonal polarization~by using micro-patterns
Sophie Roth , Jacques Brocard , Sylvie Gory-Faure , Catherine Villard

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Monday, March 16, 2009
9:12AM - 9:24AM

A39.00007: Matrix rigidity optimizes the polarization of stem cells
Assaf Zemel , Florian Rehfeldt , Andre Brown , Dennis Discher , Samuel Safran

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Monday, March 16, 2009
9:24AM - 9:36AM

A39.00008: Structure at the Leading Edge
D. A. Quint , J. M. Schwarz , M. C. Marchetti

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Monday, March 16, 2009
9:36AM - 9:48AM

A39.00009: Chemotactic strategy of Vibrio alginolyticus studied with an optical trap
Suddhashil Chattopadhyay , Tuba Altindal , Xie Li , Xia-Lun Wu

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Monday, March 16, 2009
9:48AM - 10:00AM

A39.00010: Chemotaxis in Marine Bacterium Vibrio alginolyticus
Li Xie , Suddhashil Chattopadhyay , Tuba Altindal , Xiao-Lun Wu

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Monday, March 16, 2009
10:00AM - 10:12AM

A39.00011: The flagellar ``flick'': direction randomization in single falgellated cells of V. alginolyticus
Tuba Altindal , Suddhashil Chattopadhyay , Li Xie , Xiao-Lun Wu

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Monday, March 16, 2009
10:12AM - 10:24AM

A39.00012: Probing the Dynamics of Cellular Traction Forces with Magnetic Micropost Arrays
Corinne Kramer , Christopher Chen , Daniel Reich

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Monday, March 16, 2009
10:24AM - 10:36AM

A39.00013: Differential cellular response to linear and strain-stiffening hydrogel substrates
Jessamine P. Winer , Shaina A. Oake , Bethany C. Baumann , Paul A. Janmey

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Monday, March 16, 2009
10:36AM - 10:48AM

A39.00014: Elasticity of the eye's crystalline lens: A Brillouin light scattering study.
S. Bailey , J. Gump , R. Sooryakumar , C. Jayaprakash , M.S. Venkiteshwar , M. Bullimore , M. Twa

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Monday, March 16, 2009
10:48AM - 11:00AM

A39.00015: Physical Description of Mitotic Spindle Orientation During Cell Division
Andrea Jim\'enez-Dalmaroni , Manuel Th\'ery , Victor Racine , Michel Bornens , Frank J\"ulicher

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