| Time |
Location |
Session Chair |
Paper |
Authors |
| Mon 9:00 - 10:30 |
Barus-Holley 166 |
Kuo-Kang (Isaac) Liu (University of Warwick), Franck Vernerey (University of Colorado Boulder) |
Neuromechanics of neuronal transport |
Taher Saif (University of Illinois at Urba), Wylie Ahmed (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Alireza Tofangchi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| Microphysical Derivation of the Canham–Helfrich Free-Energy Density |
Brian Seguin (McGill University), Eliot Fried (McGill University) |
| Simulation of the defective erythrocyte membrane |
HE LI (UCONN), George Lykotrafitis (University of Connecticut) |
| Biofilm streamer formation in a microfluidic porous media mimic |
Mahtab Hassanpourfard (University of Alberta), Xiaohui Sun (University of Alberta), Amin Valiei (), Yang Liu (University of Alberta), Aloke Kumar (University of Alberta), Thomas Thundat (University of Alberta) |
| Mon 10:45 - 12:15 |
Barus-Holley 166 |
William Klug (UCLA), Kai-Tak Wan (Northeastern University) |
Mechanics of Bacterial Osmotic Shock |
William Klug (UCLA) |
| Biocompatible Nanoparticles Trigger Rapid Bacteria Clustering |
Anubhav Tripathi (Brown University) |
| In vivo Mechanical Behavior of Drosophila Neurons |
Jagannathan Rajagopalan (Arizona State University), Alireza Tofangchi (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Taher Saif (University of Illinois at Urba) |
| Tonic PKA activity regulates the expression of native SK channels in living neurons |
Krithika Abiraman (University of Connecticut), Anastasios Tzingounis (University of Connecticut), George Lykotrafitis (University of Connecticut) |
| Mon 2:40 - 4:00 |
Barus-Holley 141 |
Taher Saif (University of Illinois at Urba), Jagannathan Rajagopalan (Arizona State University) |
Shock Wave Induced Damage in Tumor Cells: Experiments and Simulation |
Martin Steinhauser (Fraunhofer Research Institute ), Mischa Schmidt (Fraunhofer Research Institute) |
| Computational modeling of plant trichome branch growth using finite element and imaging approaches |
Anastasia Desyatova (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Mechanical and Materials Engineering), Samuel Belteton (Purdue University, Agronomy), Makoto Yanagisawa (Purdue University, Agronomy), Tzu-Ching Wu (Purdue University, Agricultural and Biological Engineering), Daniel Szymanski (Purdue University, Agronomy), David Umulis (Purdue University, Agricultural and Biological Engineering), Joseph Turner (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Mechanical and Materials Engineering) |
| Sacrificial bonds and hidden length in biomaterials -- a kinetic, constitutive description of strength and toughness in bone |
Charles Lieou (UC Santa Barbara), Ahmed Elbanna (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Jean Carlson (UC Santa Barbara) |
| Acousto-mechanical response of the human tympanic membrane measured by high-speed digital holography |
Ivo Dobrev (Worcester Polytechnic Institut), Cosme Furlong (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), John Rosowski (Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary), Jeffrey Cheng (Massachusetts Eye and Ear infirmary) |
| Mon 4:20 - 5:40 |
Barus-Holley 141 |
Martin Steinhauser (Fraunhofer Research Institute ), Jin Qian (Zhejiang Uinversity) |
Hierarchical Multiscale Simulation for Enhancing Adhesion of Bone Cells to Metallic Implants |
ross Stewart (Alfred University), Jinghong Fan (Alfred University) |
| A Computational Model for the Geometric and Mechanical Characterization of Electrospun Scaffolds |
James Carleton (University of Texas at Austin), Antonio D'Amore (University of Pittsburgh), Gregory Rodin (ICES,UT Austin), Michael Sacks (University of Texas) |
| The transient viscoelastic measurement of TMV superlattice with a novel AFM-based method |
Haoran Wang (North Dakota State University), Xinnan Wang (NDSU) |
| “Lock and key mechanism” for ligand binding with adrenergic receptors and the arising mechanical effects on the cell membrane |
Luca Deseri (Carnegie Mellon University), Laura Lunghi () |
| Tue 9:00 - 10:30 |
Barus-Holley 141 |
Allen Liu (University of Michigan), Christian Franck (Brown University) |
Biophysical model of the coupled mechanisms of cell adhesion, contraction and spreading |
Franck Vernerey (University of Colorado Boulder) |
| Tuning Molecular Adhesion via Material Anisotropy |
Jin Qian (Zhejiang Uinversity) |
| Investigating viscoelastic effects on cell adhesion using Atomic Force Microscopy |
Kuo-Kang (Isaac) Liu (University of Warwick), Eleftherios Siamantouras (), Paul Squires (), Claire Hills () |
| ECM ligands type and substrate stiffness regulate 3T3 Fibroblast cell traction force |
Mina Shojaeizadeh (WPI), Qian Xuyu (WPI), Jared Franklin (WPI), Qi Wen (WPI) |
| Tue 10:45 - 12:15 |
Barus-Holley 141 |
Kuo-Kang (Isaac) Liu (University of Warwick), Franck Vernerey (University of Colorado Boulder) |
On Cell-Nanomaterial Interactions |
Huajian Gao (Brown University) |
| Substrate Stiffness Regulates Cellular Uptake of Nanoparticles |
Changjin Huang (The Pennsylvania State Univers), Peter Butler (Pennsylvania State University), Sheng Tong (Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University), Hari Muddana (The Pennsylvania State University), Gang Bao (Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University), Sulin Zhang (Penn State University) |
| Mechanics of clathrin-mediated endocytosis |
Nikhil Walani (University of Houston), Jennifer Torres (University of Houston), Ashutosh Agrawal (University of Houston) |
| Spatial Dynamics of Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis |
Allen Liu (University of Michigan), Xinyu Tan (University of Michigan) |
| Tue 2:40 - 4:00 |
Barus-Holley 141 |
Evan Hohlfeld (UMass Amherst), Markus Buehler (MIT) |
Tension induced growth in cells |
Prashant Purohit (University of Pennsylvania) |
| Dynamics of cell invasion in three dimensions |
Jacob Notbohm (Caltech), Ayelet Lesman (), David Tirrell (), G. Ravichandran (Caltech) |
| 3D Neutrophil Tractions in Changing Microenvironments |
Jennet Toyjanova (Brown University), Estefany Flores-Cortez (Rhode Island Hospital), Jonathan Reichner (Rhode Island Hospital), Christian Franck (Brown University) |
| One Cell as a Mixture: Simulations of the Micropipette Aspiration Responses of valvular interstitial cells |
Yusuke Sakamoto (ICES, University of Texas at A), Michael Sacks (The University of Texas at Austin) |
| Tue 4:20 - 5:40 |
Barus-Holley 141 |
Michael Sacks (The University of Texas at Austin), Tianzhi Luo (Johns Hopkins School of Medici) |
Molecular mechanics of vimentin and lamin protein networks |
Markus Buehler (MIT) |
| The effects of extreme fluctuations in a many-body Brownian ratchet |
Evan Hohlfeld (UMass Amherst), Phillip Geissler (UC Berkeley) |
| Tuning the entropic spring: Self-assembly and fracture mechanics of polymer conjugated peptide nanotubes |
Sinan Keten (Northwestern University), Luis Ruiz () |
| Multiscale modeling of actin filaments and crosslinked actin networks |
Tamara Bidone (MIT), TaeYoon Kim (), Marco Deriu (), Umberto Morbiducci (), Roger Kamm (MIT) |
| Wed 9:00 - 10:30 |
Barus-Holley 141 |
Tae-Yeon Kim (McGill University), Tanmay Lele (University of Florida) |
Mechanical Characterization of Mouse Oocytes |
Xinyu Liu (McGill University), Jiayi Shi (Northeastern University), Yu Sun (University of Toronto), Kai-Tak Wan (Northeastern University) |
| Regulation of motor force in skeletal muscle contraction |
Bin Chen (Zhejiang univ.), Huajian Gao (Brown University) |
| On the mechanism of durotaxis in motile cells |
Sylvain Gabriele (University of Mons) |
| A mechanobiological feedback model for the oscillations of myosin II and cell shape in epithelia |
Tianzhi Luo (Johns Hopkins School of Medici), Douglas Robinson (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) |
| Wed 10:45 - 12:15 |
Barus-Holley 141 |
Jinghong Fan (Alfred University), Jin Qian (Zhejiang Uinversity) |
Effects of dynein on microtubule mechanics and centrosome positioning |
Tanmay Lele (University of Florida), Richard Dickinson (University of Florida), Anthony Ladd (), Jun Wu (), Gaurav Misra () |
| Navigating the molecular landscape of mechanosensing by the cell cortex |
Tianzhi Luo (Johns Hopkins School of Medici), Douglas Robinson (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) |
| The Molecular Landscape of Mechanosensing by the Cell Cortex |
Tianzhi Luo (Johns Hopkins University), Douglas Robinson (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine) |

