Chancellor Ballroom Schedule

Symposia are indicated using their letter code in the table below.

Monday 1

Time Symposium Talk
8:20 AM H Probing cellular responses to substrate rigidity and geometry
Yu-li Wang
9:00 AM H Quantifying the Effects of Preload and Afterload on Cardiomyocytes Using Forcepost Detector Arrays
James Norman, Chelsey Simmons, Niveditha Arumugam, Subhanu Samarajiva, Rebecca Taylor, Giovanni Fajardo, Daniel Bernstein, Beth Pruitt
9:20 AM H Quantifying the contractile behavior of individual fibroblasts within 3D collagen scaffolds
Brendan Harley, Lorna Gibson
9:40 AM H Matrix Mechanics and Cell Traction Regulate Integrin-Adhesion Ligand Bond Formation by Mesenchymal Stem Cells in 3D Micro-environments
Nathaniel Huebsch, Praveen Arany, Angelo Mao, David J. Mooney

Monday 2

Time Symposium Talk
11:20 AM H Effect of matrix structure and stiffness on sub-cellular visco-elastic properties of tumor cells in 2D and 3D matrices
Muhammad Zaman, Erin Baker
11:40 AM H Synthetic Stem Cell Niche for In Vitro Spermatogonial Stem Cell Culture
Hyunjoon Kong, Cathy Chu, John Schmidt, Kay Carnes, Zhen Zhang, Marie-Claude Hofmann
12:00 PM H Effects of EGF-induced matrix proteolysis on tumor cell migration in 3D environments arise from increase in cell speed and matrix-dependent increase in directional persistence.
Hyung-Do Kim, Tiffany W. Guo, Angela P. Wu, Frank B. Gertler, Douglas A. Lauffenburger
12:20 PM H Bioactive Microgels for Large-Scale Eukaryotic Cell Culture
Hyunjoon Kong, John Schmidt
12:40 PM H Mechano-chemical Coupling in the Adhesion of Thin Structures to Surfaces with Topography
Richard Springman, John L. Bassani

Monday 3

Time Symposium Talk
2:20 PM H The Fly Eye: A Biomechanics Model for Understanding Tissue Morphology
Sascha Hilgenfeldt, Ian Gemp, Richard Carthew
2:40 PM H Substrate mechanics and chemistry modulate the balance between endothelial cell-cell and cell-matrix adhesion
Cynthia Reinhart-King
3:00 PM H Substrate elasticity influences bone-like matrix deposition in low-density mesenchymal stem cell cultures but not in confluent cultures
Amy Wagoner Johnson, Michael Poellmann
3:20 PM H Model of Force Generation in a Self-Assembling Toroidal Cluster of Cells
Asha Nurse, L. B. Freund
3:40 PM H Composite Diaphragm Inflation: Probing the Mechanobiological Functions of Desmosomes and Intermediate Filament Networks within a Living Normal Human Epidermal Keratinocyte Sheet
John Selby, Mark A. Shannon

Monday 4

Time Symposium Talk
4:20 PM H The thermodynamics and kinetics of focal adhesion dynamics
Krishna Garikipati, Joseph E. Olberding, Michael D. Thouless, Ellen M. Arruda
4:40 PM H Measuring the surface adhesion of cancer cells: A novel way to characterize and understand cancer metastasis
Xin Tang, Tony Cappa, Theresa B. Kuhlenschmidt, Mark S. Kuhlenschmidt, Taher A. Saif
5:00 PM H Nanomechanics of Cell Adhesion: from single molecules to tissues
Deborah Leckband, Yuan-Hung Chien, Ning Jiang, Fang Zhang, Cheng Zhu
5:20 PM H A Second Order Mean Field Theory on the Stochastic-Elasticity Model of Focal Adhesion via Molecular Bond Clusters
Huajian Gao, Jizeng Wang, Jin Qian

Tuesday 1

Time Symposium Talk
8:20 AM H Adhesion site dynamics and cytoskeleton multi-compartmental response revealed by transient bead twisting: Magnetic Twisting Cytometry revisited
Daniel Isabey, Féréol Sophie, Pelle Gabriel, Fodil Redouane, Louis Bruno
8:40 AM H Molecular Mechanism of The Multi-Power Law Behavior of Living Cells
Farhan Chowdhury, Sungsoo Na, Olivier Collin, Bernard Tay, Fang Li, Tetsuya Tanaka, Deborah Leckband, Ning Wang
9:00 AM H Force Spectroscopy of Primary Alveolar Epithelial Type II Cells
Esra Roan, Catherine Cozad, Christopher M. Waters, Lynn Crosby
9:20 AM H Micromechanical Modeling of Cell Cytoskeleton
H. Jerry Qi, Sitikantha Roy
9:40 AM H A Coarse Grained Model for Biomembranes
George Lykotrafitis, Ju Li, Sulin Zhang, Subra Suresh

Tuesday 2

Time Symposium Talk
11:20 AM H Forced dissociation of Neural Cell Adhesion Molecules
Deborah Leckband, Venkat Maruthamuthu, Klaus Schulten
11:40 AM H Multimodal Perturbation of Intracellular Calcium using Dorsal Cell Adhesion
Warren Ruder, James Antaki, Philip LeDuc
12:00 PM H TRPV4 channels mediate mechanical control of integrin activation and angiogenesis
Charles Thodeti, Donald Ingber
12:20 PM H Integrin-Cadherin Cross-Talk Regulates Cell Motility And Invasiveness
Deborah Leckband, Jonathan Silvestre, PJA Kenis
12:40 PM H Stress-Induced Direct Src Activation is Dependent on Microtubule Deformation
Sungsoo Na, Olivier Collin, Farhan Chowdhury, Bernard Tay, Mingxing Ouyang, Yingxiao Wang, Ning Wang

Tuesday 3

Time Symposium Talk
2:20 PM I Mechanical Behavior of Cells on Tissue Engineering Scaffolds
Lorna Gibson
3:00 PM I Constitutive and Fracture Behavior of a Soft Biogel, Agarose
HJ Kwon, C. Kovalchick, G. Ravichandran
3:20 PM I Structure-Property Relationship of Single Electrospun Nanofibers
Chwee Teck Lim
3:40 PM I Modeling agarose-nanocomposite biomaterials for tissue engineering applications
Kumar Vemaganti, Nilesh Billade, Shawn Hunter

Tuesday 4

Time Symposium Talk
4:20 PM I Saw-tooth behavior of bio-macromolecules
Ying Wang, Youping Chen
4:40 PM I Correlation between Atomic Force Microscope based Experiments and Atomistic Simulations based Deformation Analyses of Bone Tissue
Vikas Tomar, Ming Gan, Albert Cerrone, Devendra K. Dubey
5:00 PM I Geometric Confinement Governs the Rupture Strength of H-bond Assemblies at a Critical Length Scale
Markus J. Buehler, Sinan Keten
5:20 PM I Utilization of Atomic Force Microscopy to Study Ligand-Receptor Binding of Immune System Molecules
Irene Chang, Jianzhu Chen, Subra Suresh
5:40 PM I Hierarchical Chemo-mechanics of Tropocollagen-Hydroxyapatite Nanocomposites: Role of Interfaces and Hierarchy
Vikas Tomar, Devendra K. Dubey

Wednesday 1

Time Symposium Talk
8:20 AM I Theory of Swimming Filaments in Viscoelastic Media
Henry Fu, Thomas Powers, Charles Wolgemuth
8:40 AM I Organ-Level Biomechanical Analysis of Blunt Liver Injury: Dynamic Impact Experiments on Perfused Ex Vivo Porcine Livers
Jessica Sparks, Jason Stammen, Rodney Herriott, John Bolte, IV
9:00 AM I Two different Pathways of Abscission Stage of Cytokinesis in Bovine Pulmonary Arterial Endothelial Cells
Tawhid Ezaz, Huseyin Sehitoglu
9:20 AM I Biorheology of Healthy and Diseased Human Red Blood Cells
David Quinn, Sophie Wong, Subra Suresh

Wednesday 2

Time Symposium Talk
11:20 AM I Cartilage tissue engineering on fibrous chitosan scaffolds produced by a replica molding technique
Guillaume R Ragetly, Dominique Griffon, Brian Cunningham, Gregory Slavic
11:40 AM I Mechanical Property and Biocompatibility of Poly(diol citrate) Micro- and Nanocomposites for Bone Tissue Engineering
Hongjin Qiu, Pradeep Kodali, Jason Koh, Guillermo A, Ameer
12:00 PM I Hydroxyapatite Scaffolds with Multi-Scale Porosity
Amy Wagoner Johnson, Samantha Polak, Sheeny Lan, Shanna Wilson, Matthew B. Wheeler, Sherrie Clark
12:20 PM I Scaffold and Growth Factors Induced Regeneration in Critical Size Limb Bone Segmental Defects
Iwona Jasiuk, Liang Feng, Holly Nye, Derek Milner, Chunguang Xia, Patrick Redwood, Jo Ann Cameron, Nick Fang
12:40 PM I Bioengineered Gelatin Microspheres for Growth Factor Delivery: Improving Xenopus laevis Hind Limb Regeneration
Holly Nye, Derek Milner, Bingbing Li, Nandini Rao, Paul Miller, Kenneth Ringwald, Patrick Redwood, Jo Ann Cameron

Wednesday 3

Time Symposium Talk
2:20 PM I Mathematical modeling of cortical bone adaptation in rat ulna
Iwona Jasiuk, Natarajan Chennimalai Kumar, Jonathan A Dantzig, Charles H Turner
2:40 PM I Assessment of Plasticity in Bovine Cortical Bone During Crack Growth
Denis Torres, Thomas Siegmund, Tamim Diab, David Burr
3:00 PM I Physical Imaging for Human Cortical Bone Crack Growth
Elisa Budyn, Thierry Hoc, Julien Jonvaux
3:20 PM I Damage and Energy Dissipation in Trabecular Bone
Glen L. Niebur, Rachel C. Paietta, Jacqueline G. Garrison
3:40 PM I Transmenopausal Changes in the Intrinsic Material Properties of Trabecular Bone using Nanoindentation
Benjamin J. Polly, Mohammed P. Akhter, Joseph A. Turner

Wednesday 4

Time Symposium Talk
4:20 PM I Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Mineralized Collagen-GAG Scaffolds for Bone Regeneration
Lorna Gibson, Biraja Kanungo, Lorna Gibson, Lorna Gibson
4:40 PM I Mechanics and surgical strategies for tendon-to-bone repair
Guy M. Genin, Youngjune Yoon, Alistair J. Kent, Brigitte Wopenka, Jill D. Pasteris, Victor Birman, Rosalina Das, Stavros Thomopoulos
5:00 PM I Nanomechanical property dependence on crystallinity in modern and fossilized bone tissues
Sara Olesiak, Matthew Sponheimer, Jaelyn J. Eberle, Michelle L. Oyen, Virginia L. Ferguson
5:20 PM I The effects of diets containing 15 and 30% of energy from protein on mechanical strength of the femur in rats
Matthew Thorpe, Rudy Valentine, Amy Wagoner Johnson, Ellen Evans, Donald Layman
5:40 PM I Dependence of the mechanical properties of sintered hydroxyapatite on the sintering temperature.
Igor Sevostianov, Oleg Prokopiev