Subgroup Chair: Ovijit Chaudhuri, Stanford University, USA

Symposium Time:  8:30 AM – 12:30 PM  PST

Symposium Room: Room 301/302 

Business Meeting:  10:30AM - 10:40AM PST

 

8:30 AM Opening Remarks

 

8:40 AM Kostas Konstantopoulos, John Hopkins University, USA
Cancer Cell Mechanosensing and Mechanointelligence

 

9:05 AM Andrew Holle, National University of Singapore, SINGAPORE
The Transcriptomic and Epigenetic Signature of Confined Migration

 

9:30 AM Claudia Loebel, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Lineage-Specific Nascent Matrix Labeling to Probe Cellular Mechanosensing in Lung Remodeling

 

9:55 AM Hadi Nia, Boston University, USA
Crystal Ribcage Platform to Probe the Lung Mechanobiology in Health and Disease

 

10:20 AM Break

 

10:30 AM Business Meeting

 

10:40 AM Early Career Award in Mechanobiology Awardee Talk: Shashank Shekhar, Emory University, USA
Multicomponent Mechanochemical Control of Actin Filament End Dynamics

 

11:05 AM Student/Postdoc Talk: Vanna Tran, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Mammalian Metaphase Kinetochores are Deformable, Elastic Materials Dependent on Condensin for Structural Robustness and Functional Integrity

 

11:15 AM Xavi Trepat, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, SPAIN
Shape-Programmable Living Surfaces

 

11:40 AM Sanjay Kumar, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Biophysical Regulation of 3D Tumor Invasion by Cell-Directed Matrix Remodeling

 

12:05 PM Lucy O'Brien, Stanford University, USA
A Sensor of Cytoplasmic Density Directs Mechano-Osmotic Scaling of Organ Size