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Session H10: Physics of Bacteria II

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Sponsoring Units: DBP
Chair: Eshel Ben-Jacob, Tel Aviv University
Room: A106


Tuesday, March 16, 2010
8:00AM - 8:12AM

H10.00001: Cell shape acquisition and maintenance in rodlike bacteria
Sven van Teeffelen , Ned Wingreen , Zemer Gitai

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
8:12AM - 8:24AM

H10.00002: Cell-wall dynamics in growing bacteria
Leon Furchtgott , Ned Wingreen , Kerwyn Casey Huang

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
8:24AM - 8:36AM

H10.00003: Computational assessment of the stiffness of the Gram-negative bacterial cell wall
Sandhya Sinha , Yao Zhao , K.C. Huang

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
8:36AM - 8:48AM

H10.00004: The role of spatial asymmetries in the development of the bacterium \textit{Caulobacter crescentus}
Carolina Tropini , Erin Chen , Stephen Sciochetti , Austin Newton , Michael Laub , Kerwyn Casey Huang

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
8:48AM - 9:00AM

H10.00005: Bacteria in Confined Spaces
Connie Wilking , David Weitz

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
9:00AM - 9:12AM

H10.00006: Microbial Nanowire Electronic Structure Probed by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
Joshua P. Veazey , Sanela Lampa-Pastirk , Gemma Reguera , Stuart H. Tessmer

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
9:12AM - 9:24AM

H10.00007: Viability of adhered bacterial cells: tracking MinD protein oscillations
Matt Barrett , Keegan Colville , Chris Schultz-Nielsen , Manfred Jericho , John Dutcher

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
9:24AM - 9:36AM

H10.00008: Curved microchannels and bacterial streamers
Roberto Rusconi , Sigolene Lecuyer , Laura Guglielmini , Howard Stone

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
9:36AM - 9:48AM

H10.00009: Physical properties of native bacterial biofilm cells measured by atomic force microscopy
Katherine Aidala , Catherine Volle , Megan Ferguson , Eileen Spain , Megan Nunez

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
9:48AM - 10:00AM

H10.00010: ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN


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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
10:00AM - 10:12AM

H10.00011: Growth mechanics of bacterial cell wall and morphology of bacteria
Hongyuan Jiang , Sean Sun

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
10:12AM - 10:24AM

H10.00012: Intercellular interactions~in early biofilm formation probed with image analysis and~laser trapping
Vernita Gordon , Jacinta Conrad , Maxsim Gibiansky , Fan Jin , Nyrene Haque , Dominick Motto , Margie Mathewson , Gabe Spalding , Matthew Parsek , Joshua Shrout , Gerard Wong

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
10:24AM - 10:36AM

H10.00013: Genetic Control of Rheology in Bacterial Biofilms
James Wilking , Michael Brenner , David Weitz

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
10:36AM - 10:48AM

H10.00014: Atomic Force Microscope Investigations of Biofilms Treated with Gas Discharge Plasmas
Kurt Vandervoort , Gregory Stough , Anna Zelaya , Graciela Brelles-Marino

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Tuesday, March 16, 2010
10:48AM - 11:00AM

H10.00015: Relationship between model bacterial peptidoglycan network structures and AFM force-distance curves
Aidan Brown , Robert Wickham , Ahmed Touhami , John Dutcher

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