Session: Cell Biomechanics (2010 Annual Meeting)

Cell Biomechanics

Friday, November 12, 2010: 8:30 AM

255 E Room (Salt Palace Convention Center)

Description:

This session invites contributions in the area of cell mechanics. Topics include measurement of cellular mechanical properties, cytoskeletal mechanics, cellular response to mechanical cues and modulation of cell mechanical properties by external stimuli.

Sponsor:

Engineering Fundamentals in Life Science

Chair:

Yiider Tseng
Email: ytseng@che.ufl.edu

Co-Chair:

Neil S. Forbes
Email: forbes@ecs.umass.edu

- indicates paper has an Extended Abstract file available on CD.

8:30 AM

(721a) Force Generation On the Nucleus by Dynein Walking On Dynamic Microtubules Is Sufficient to Explain Nuclear Rotation
Jun Wu, Kristen C. Lee, Richard B. Dickinson and Tanmay Lele

8:50 AM

(721b) Mediating Functions of Dendritic Cells by Tuning the Substratum Elasticity
Christina Yacoob and Hong Shen

9:10 AM

(721c) Dissecting the Active Gel Dynamics of the Microtubule Cytoskeleton in Living Epithelial Cells
Brenton D. Hoffman, Kathleen M. Van Citters, Andy W.C. Lau and John C. Crocker

9:30 AM

(721d) Differential Endothelial Cell Response to Simultaneous Shear and Cytokine Stimulation
Ryan B. Huang and Omolola Eniola-Adefeso

9:50 AM

Break

10:00 AM

(721e) The Effect of Mechanical Load on Collagen Proteolysis by Matrix Metalloproteinase-1
Arjun S. Adhikari, Jack Chai and Alexander R. Dunn

10:20 AM

(721f) 3-Dimensional Mechanics and Shapes of Cells On Micropatterned Substrates
Goher Mahmud, Siowling Soh, Sabil Huda, Kristiana Kandere-Grzybowska and Bartosz Grzybowski

10:40 AM

(721g) Arginine Vasopressin Increases Aquaporin-1 Expression and Hydraulic Conductivity in Bovine Aortic Endothelium Monolayers
Chirag B. Raval, John M. Tarbell, Kung-Ming Jan and David S. Rumschitzki

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