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Session A42: Focus Session: Cytoskeleton and Biomechanics - Biochemical mechanisms

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Sponsoring Units: DBIO DPOLY
Chair: Megan Valentine, University of California, Santa Barbara
Room: 156C


Monday, February 27, 2012
8:00AM - 8:12AM

A42.00001: Stochastic simulations of the growth dynamics and organization of lamellipodia-like actin networks
Longhua Hu , Garegin Papoian

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Monday, February 27, 2012
8:12AM - 8:24AM

A42.00002: How ion binding affects actin filament stability and flexural rigidity
Hyeran Kang , Michael Bradley , Brannon McCullough , Ana\"elle Pierre , Elena Grintsevich , Enrique De La Cruz

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Monday, February 27, 2012
8:24AM - 8:36AM

A42.00003: Mechanotransduction through the plasma membrane {\&} cytoskeleton
Kristina Haase , Andrew Pelling

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Monday, February 27, 2012
8:36AM - 9:12AM

A42.00004: Leading at the Front: How EB Proteins Regulate Microtubule Dynamics
Invited Speaker: Taviare Hawkins

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Monday, February 27, 2012
9:12AM - 9:24AM

A42.00005: Redundancy and cooperativity in the mechanics of compositely crosslinked cytoskeletal networks
J.M. Schwarz , D.Q. Quint , Moumita Das

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Monday, February 27, 2012
9:24AM - 9:36AM

A42.00006: The origins of strain stiffening in fibrin networks
Louise Jawerth , Stefan Muenster , David Weitz

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Monday, February 27, 2012
9:36AM - 9:48AM

A42.00007: Semiflexible filament networks viewed as fluctuating beam frames
Tianxiang Su , Prashant Purohit

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Monday, February 27, 2012
9:48AM - 10:00AM

A42.00008: Spindle Assembly and Architecture: From Laser Ablation to Microtubule Nucleation
Daniel Needleman , Jan Brugues , Valeria Nuzzo , Eric Mazur

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Monday, February 27, 2012
10:00AM - 10:12AM

A42.00009: Coupling stochastic kinetics and mechanics uncovers new dynamics induced by focal adhesions in filopodia
Maria Minakova , Garegin Papoian

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Monday, February 27, 2012
10:12AM - 10:24AM

A42.00010: Growth Cone Biomechanics in Peripheral and Central Nervous System Neurons
Jeffrey Urbach , Daniel Koch , Will Rosoff , Herbert Geller

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Monday, February 27, 2012
10:24AM - 10:36AM

A42.00011: An Atomic Force Microscopy based investigation of specific biomechanical properties for various types of neuronal cells
Elise Spedden , James White , David Kaplan , Cristian Staii

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Monday, February 27, 2012
10:36AM - 10:48AM

A42.00012: Nuclear Physics in a biological context
Dennis Discher

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