Linda Kenney, University of Illinois, Chicago, Organizer
Mechanobiology Subgroup 2013 Inaugural Symposium
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1:00 PM, Dennis Discher, University of Pennsylvania
From Matrix Elasticity to Nuclear Physics in Lineage Programs
1:30 PM, GV Shivashankar, National University of Singapore
Nuclear Mechanics and Genome Regulation
2:00 PM, Mike Dustin, New York University
T cell Receptor-Associated Actin Patches Generated by Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein
2:30 PM, Maithreyi Narasimha, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
Patterning Transitions in Cell Behavior during Drosphila Dorsal Closure: The Infulence of Signals, Stresses and Geometry
2:45 PM, Coffee Break
3:15 PM, Antoine Triller, Institute of Biology at Ecole Normale Superieure (IBENS), France
Synapse Stability and Plasticity: From Super-Resolution to Physical Chemistry of Molecular Interactions
3:45 PM, Jennifer Zallen, Rockefeller University
Shaping the Embryo: Cellular Dynamics in Development
4:15 PM, Rob Phillips, California Institute of Technology
Bacteria Are Stressed Out Too: The Physics of Mechanosensation
4:45 PM, Postdoc Talk: Marija Plodinec, Biozentrum and the Swiss Nanoscience Institution, University of Basel, Switzerland
Nanomechanics as a Universal Hallmark of Breast Cancer with Correlations to Metastasis
5:00 PM, Business Meeting