Cell mechanics II

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Session Chair(s)

• JB

  Jonathan Brunger, PhD

  Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
  Vanderbilt University
  Franklin, Tennessee, United States

Track Chair(s)

• 

  Adetola Adesida, PhD (he/him/his)

  Professor
  University of Alberta
  Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• 

  Celeste Nelson, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Wilke Family Professor in Bioengineering
  Princeton University
  Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Presentations:

• 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM EST

  F-actin regulators and myosin contractility govern the migration switching of epithelial cells on aligned collagen
  

  Presenting Author: Azarnoosh Foroozandehfar, PhD (she/her/hers) – Iowa State University

  Co-Author: Gopal Niraula, PhD (he/him/his) – Iowa State University

  Primary Investigator: Ian Schneider, PhD – Iowa State University
• 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM EST

  Heterogeneities in the adhesion energies of chondrocytes isolated from healthy and osteoarthritic donors to a model surface evaluated over 21 days by atomic force microscopy
  

  Presenting Author: Anita Shayan, Anita Shayan (she/her/hers) – The University of Texas at San Antonio

  Co-Author: Robert Stannert (he/him/his) – University of Texas at San Antonio

  Primary Investigator: Nehal I. Abu-Lail, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Texas at San Antonio
• 9:00 AM – 9:15 AM EST

  Mechanobiology inspired engineering of mesenchymal stromal/stem cells to resolve muscle fibrosis in Duchene Muscular Dystrophy
  

  Presenting Author: Helena Roell, MS (she/her/hers) – Colorado State University

  Primary Investigator: Sing-Wan Wong, PhD (he/him/his) – Colorado State University

  Co-Author: Alexa Gonzalez

  Co-Author: Evan Corwin
• 9:15 AM – 9:30 AM EST

  Mechano-osmotic signals control chromatin state and fate transitions in pluripotent stem cells
  

  Presenting Author: Kaitlin McCreery, PhD – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine

  Last Author: Sara Wickström, MD, PhD – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine

  Co-Author: Aki Stubb – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine

  Co-Author: Rebecca Stephens – Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health

  Co-Author: Nadezda Fursova – System Biology of Gene Expression, National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Health

  Co-Author: Kai Kruse – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine

  Co-Author: Sanna Vuoristo – Helsinki Institute of Life Science

  Co-Author: Yekaterina Miroshnikova – Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health
• 9:30 AM – 9:45 AM EST

  Quantify Integrin Molecular Tensions using Tandem Tension Sensor
  

  Presenting Author: Arghajit Pyne, PhD – University of Cincinnati

  Co-Author: Gopal Niraula, PhD (he/him/his) – Iowa State University

  Primary Investigator: Xuefeng Wang, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Cincinnati
• 9:45 AM – 10:00 AM EST

  Cell Dancing Enhances 3D Stem Cell Chondrogenesis via Early-Stage Cytoskeleton and Nuclear Mechanosensing
  

  Co-Author: Manish Ayushman, MS – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Georgios Mikos (he/him/his) – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Xinming Tong – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Sarah J. Jones (she/her/hers) – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Pam Cai – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Andrew Spakowitz – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Ashby Morrison – Stanford University

  Co-Author: Sarah Heilshorn, PhD – Stanford University

  Presenting Author: Fan Yang, PhD (she/her/hers) – Stanford University