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Hydrodynamics of Swimming Microorganisms


Time Location Session Chair Paper Authors
Tue 9:00 - 10:30 Barus-Holley 191 Arezoo Ardekani (University of Notre Dame), Jeffrey Guasto (MIT) Movements of tethered Marine Bacterium with a Polar Flagellum Xiao-Lun Wu (University of Pittsburgh)
Propulsion of model monotrichous bacteria in weakly viscoelastic fluids Alexander Morozov (University of Edinburgh)
Cell-kinematics and the swimming motility of an individual bacterium Bin Liu (Brown University), Thomas Powers (Brown University), Kenneth Breuer (Brown University)
Turning failure into function: Marine bacteria reorient via a flagellar buckling instability Kwangmin Son (MIT), Jeffrey Guasto (MIT), Roman Stocker (MIT)
Tue 10:45 - 12:15 Barus-Holley 191 Jeffrey Guasto (MIT), Arezoo Ardekani (University of Notre Dame) Trapped in Flow Roman Stocker (MIT), Roberto Rusconi (MIT), Jeffrey Guasto (MIT), William Durham (Oxford University), Michael Barry (MIT), Eric Climent (Institute the Mechanique des Fluids de Toulouse), Guido Boffetta (Universita' di Torino), Filippo DeLillo (Universita' di Torino), Massimo Cencini (Consiglio Nazionale della Ricerche, Roma, Italy)
Reverse engineering the euglenoid movement Marino Arroyo (UPC-BarcelonaTech), Luca Heltai (), Daniel Millan (), Antonio DeSimone ()
Unsteady inertial effects on small swimming organisms Shiyan Wang (University of Notre Dame), Arezoo Ardekani (University of Notre Dame)
Gyrotactic Bioconvection at Pycnoclines Alireza Karimi (University of Notre Dame), Arezoo Ardekani (University of Notre Dame)
Tue 2:40 - 4:00 Barus-Holley 191 Marino Arroyo (UPC-BarcelonaTech), Thomas Powers (Brown University) Undulatory Swimming in Complex & Heterogeneous Media Paulo Arratia (University of Pennsylvania)
Understanding Sperm Motility in Changing Environments Julie Simons (Tulane University), Lisa Fauci (Tulane University), Ricardo Cortez (Tulane University)
Hydrodynamic Interactions of Sperm Sarah Olson (WPI), Lisa Fauci (Tulane University)
The phylogeny of swimming kinematics: The environment controls flagellar waveforms in sperm motility Jeffrey Guasto (MIT), Lisa Burton (MIT), Anette Hosoi (MIT), Roman Stocker (MIT)
Tue 4:20 - 5:40 Barus-Holley 191 Sarah Olson (WPI), Paulo Arratia (University of Pennsylvania) Intrinsic Viscosity of Actively Swimming Microalgae Suspensions Michael Johnston (UIUC), Lucas Caretta (U of MN), Randy Ewoldt (UIUC)
Dynamics and propulsion modes of anchored and freely moving, frictional filament of active, polar, Brownian particles Arvind Gopinath (Max Planck Institute ), Raghunath Chelakkot (Harvard University), Tobias Schneider (MPIDS)
Swimming microorganisms in complex fluids Thomas Powers (Brown University)
The mechanics of motion and confinement of flagellated bacteria at air-water interface Michael Morse (Brown University), Jay Tang (Brown University)