Biomechanics

Cellular and Molecular Mechanobiology I

Session Chair(s)

• 

  Soham  Ghosh, PhD (he/him/his)

  Assistant Professor
  Colorado State University
• 

  Laura Hansen, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  Emory University
  Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Track Chair(s)

• 

  Jeffrey Jacot, PhD (he/him/his)

  Associate professor
  University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
  Aurora, Colorado, United States
• 

  Hossein Tavana, PhD (he/him/his)

  Department Chair/ Professor
  University of Akron, Ohio, United States

Presentations:

• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM EST

  Piezo Dependent Calcium Dynamics during Drosophila Embryogenesis
  

  Presenting Author: Nolan Frey – Carnegie Mellon University

  Co-Author: Utku Sönmez, PhD – Scripps Research and UC San Diego

  Co-Author: Jonathan S. Minden, PhD – Carnegie Mellon Unviersity

  Primary Investigator: Philip R. R. LeDuc, PhD – Carnegie Mellon University
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM EST

  3D Helical Cell Sheets for Modeling Cardiac C-Looping
  

  Presenting Author: Madison R. Stiefbold (she/her/hers) – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  Co-Author: Melissa Orlick – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  Last Author: Leo Wan, PhD – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute `
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM EST

  Cell contractility effects on fibrillar collagen in developing and mature hearts
  

  Presenting Author: Susanna A. Belt, MS (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania

  Co-Author: Karanvir Saini (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania

  Primary Investigator: Dennis Discher, PhD – Biophysical Eng'g Labs, University of Pennsylvania
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM EST

  Mechanosensitive regulation of cell volume and its implications in cell functions
  

  Presenting Author: Qin Ni, PhD (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University

  Co-Author: Zhuoxu Ge, MA (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University

  Primary Investigator: Sean Sun – Johns Hopkins University
• 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM EST

  Mechanosensitive differentiation of human iPS cell-derived podocytes
  

  Presenting Author: Yize Zhang, M.S.E. (he/him/his) – Duke University

  Primary Investigator: Samira Musah, PhD (she/her/hers) – Duke University
• 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM EST

  Actin Branching Regulates Cell Spreading and Force on Talin, but not YAP Activation
  

  Presenting Author: Claudia V. Villalobos (she/her/hers) – Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Florida State University Department of Bioengineering, Rice University

  Co-Author: Amir Sadeghifar – Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Florida State University

  Co-Author: Jose Maggiorani – Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Florida State University

  Co-Author: Garrett S. McDaniel (he/him/his) – Florida State University

  Primary Investigator: Tristan Driscoll, PhD (he/him/his) – Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering, Florida State University