Session: Surface Chemistry, Self-Assembly and Cell Biology


COLL		Wednesday, 31 August 2005

8:30 AM-12:00 PM Renaissance Washington -- Room 10--11, Oral
Surface Chemistry, Self-Assembly and Cell Biology
Cell Adhesion
Organizers:	S. A. Safran Ramanathan Nagarajan
Presiding:	Patricia Bassereau
8:30 AM	328	Brownian motion of cell envelopes controls adhesion Erich Sackmann, Alexandra Zidovska
9:00 AM	329	Activation of Integrin function by nanopatterned adhesive interfaces Joachim P. Spatz
9:30 AM	330	Driving cell structure and function by extracellular matrix rheology: Differential effects on astrocytes and neurons Penelope C. Georges, Lisa A Flanagan, Evelyn S. Sawyer, Paul A Janmey
10:00 AM	331	Material softness dictates differentiation of human Mesenchymal stem cells Dennis E. Discher, Adam J Engler
10:30 AM	332	The effect of substrate mechanical properties on cell morphology and proliferation Miriam H. Rafailovich, E Guan, Kaustabh Gosh, Shouren Ge, Richard A F Clark, Ezra Katz, Eric Mansfield, Glenn D. Prestwich
11:00 AM	333	Force induced adsorption and anisotropic growth of focal adhesions Achim Besser, S. A. Safran, Joachim P. Spatz
11:20 AM	334	Quantitative force measurements during cystogenesis at biomimetic interfaces Jens Ulmer, Aldo Ferrari, Ruth Kroschewski, Joachim P. Spatz
11:40 AM	335	Cell interactions and polarization in elastic stress fields Assaf Zemel, Ilka B. Bischofs, S. A. Safran

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