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Computational Mechanics of Biomembranes


Time Location Session Chair Paper Authors
Mon 9:00 - 10:30 Barus-Holley 160 Petia Vlahovska (Brown University), Shravan Veerapaneni (University of Michigan) The flow of red blood cells through narrow, spleen-like filtering slits Jonathan Freund (University of Illinois at Urba)
Shape dynamics and lipid hydrodynamics of bilayer membranes Mohammad Rahimi (), Marino Arroyo (UPC-BarcelonaTech)
Role of Target Geometry in Endocytosis: Laying Down to Stand Up Sulin Zhang (Penn State University), Changjin Huang (The Pennsylvania State Univers), Yao Zhang (The Pennsylvania State Univers)
Dynamics of a multi-component vesicle in viscous fluids Shuwang Li (Illinois Institute of Technolo), John lowengrub (UC-Irvine), Jinsun Sohn (UCLA math department), Kai Liu (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Mon 10:45 - 12:15 Barus-Holley 160 Jonathan Freund (University of Illinois at Urba), Sulin Zhang (Penn State University) Electrostatic effects in the mechanics of a cell membrane Prashant Purohit (University of Pennsylvania)
Sharp Interface Three-Dimensional Electrohydrodynamic Vesicle Simulations: Formulation and Numerical Methods David Salac (University at Buffalo SUNY), Mohammad Kolahdouz (University at Buffalo SUNY), Prerna Gera (University at Buffalo SUNY)
Morphology and chirality control self-assembly of sickle hemoglobin inside red blood cells Xuejin Li (Brown University), Bruce Caswell (Brown University), George Karniadakis (Brown University)
TETHERING AND PEARLING OF A SETTLING VESICLE Gwenn Boedec (IRPHE), Marc Jaeger (M2P2), Marc Leonetti (IRPHE)
Mon 2:40 - 4:00 Barus-Holley 160 David Salac (University at Buffalo SUNY), Marino Arroyo (UPC-BarcelonaTech) Numerical Algorithms for Vesicle Flows Shravan Veerapaneni (University of Michigan)
Simulations of 3D vesicles and capsules with boundary integral method using singularity subtraction technique Alexander Farutin (LIPhy, CNRS & UJF Grenoble), Chaouqi Misbah (LIPhy, CNRS & UJF Grenoble)
Symmetric and non-symmetric elongation of vesicles in extensional flows Andrew Spann (Stanford), Vivek Narsimhan (Stanford University), Eric Shaqfeh (Stanford University)
Analysis of nanoprobe penetration through a lipid bilayer Fei Liu (MIT), Dan Wu (), Roger Kamm (MIT), ken Chen (Tsinghua University)