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Experimental Nanobiomechanics


Time Location Session Chair Paper Authors
Mon 9:00 - 10:30 Barus-Holley 163 Hadi Tavakoli Nia (MIT), Pranav Shrotriya (Iowa State University) Micro-Mechanics of Neuronal Compression II: The Cytoskeleton Strikes Back Adam Fournier (Johns Hopkins), K.T. Ramesh (Johns Hopkins University)
Determination of Correlations between Mechanical and Microstructural Properties of Aorta by Nanoindentation Technique Ali Hemmasizadeh (Temple University), Soroush Assari (Temple University), Michael Autieri (Temple University), Kurosh Darvish (Temple University)
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Cartilage Poroelasticity Hadi Tavakoli Nia (MIT), Lin Han (), Iman Soltani (), Kamal Youcef-Toumi (), Christine Ortiz (), Alan Grodzinsky ()
Role of A-kinase anchoring proteins (AKAPs) in activation of the sickle cell disease red blood cell adhesion receptor BCAM/Lu Jamie Maciaszek (University of Connecticut), Biree Andemariam (University of Connecticut Health Center), George Lykotrafitis (University of Connecticut)
Mon 10:45 - 12:15 Barus-Holley 163 Ahmed Elbanna (University of Illinois (UC)), Taher Saif (University of Illinois at Urba) Biological ferroelectricity in aortic walls Jiangyu Li (University of Washington)
Structural and Mechanical Studies of the Individual Building Block of a Natural Transparent Armor of Placuna placenta Ling Li (MIT), Christine Ortiz ()
A living artificial swimmer from soft flagella and cardiac cells Taher Saif (University of Illinois at Urba), Brian Williams (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Sandeep Anand (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Mon 4:20 - 5:40 Barus-Holley 163 Hadi Tavakoli Nia (MIT), Ahmed Elbanna (University of Illinois (UC)) Development of holographic methods to characterize form and function of the Tympanic Membrane Morteza Khaleghi (WPI), Cosme Furlong (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), Jeffrey Cheng (Massachusetts Eye and Ear infirmary), John Rosowski (Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary)
Crack propagation in bone at the scale of mineralized collagen fibrils: Implications for bone toughness Ahmed Elbanna (University of Illinois (UC)), wenyi Wang (), Charles Lieou (UC Santa Barbara), Jean Carlson (UC Santa Barbara)
Electrostatic Actuation based Modulation of Binding Interaction between Protein and DNA Aptamer via Dynamic Force Spectroscopy Xiao Ma (Iowa State University), Pranav Shrotriya (Iowa State University)