2010 Annual Meeting

Session: Cell Biomechanics

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.

Chair

Yiider Tseng, University of Florida

Co-Chair

Neil S. Forbes, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Presentations

08:30 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, Tanmay Lele

08:50 AM

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

09:10 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, John C. Crocker

09:30 AM

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

10:00 AM

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

10:40 AM

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