Subgroup Chair: Rebecca Wells, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Symposium Day and Time:  Saturday, 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM EST

Symposium Room: Room 204C 

Business Meeting:  3:30 PM - 3:40 PM EST

 

1:30 PM Opening Remarks

1:40 PM Sylvie Lorente, Villanova University, USA
Vascular Model of the Human Liver Circulatory System

2:05 PM Alex Hughes, University of Pennsylvania, USA
A Mechanical Pacemaker Sets Rhythmic Nephron Formation in the Kidney

2:30 PM Daniel Cosgrove, Penn State University, USA
Stick and slip: Cellulose Microfibril Mechanics in Plant Cell Wall Elasticity, Plasticity, Protein-Mediated Creep and Growth

2:55 PM Sarah Calve, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Quantifying Cell Response to Extracellular Matrix Mechanics at the Mesoscale

3:20 PM Break

3:30 PM Subgroup Business Meeting

3:40 PM Early Career Award in Mechanobiology Awardee Talk

4:05 PM Student/Postdoc Talk 

4:15 PM Ming Guo, MIT, USA
Cell Mechanics and Mechanobiology in Multicellular Living Systems

4:40 PM Shailaja Seetharaman, Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore
Machine Learning Frameworks for Vascular Tissue Mechanobiology

5:05 PM Jan Lammerding, Cornell University, USA
Nuclear Mechanobiology – From Striated Muscle Disease to Ultrarapid Cellular Mechanosensing

5:30 PM Closing Remarks