Poster abstracts
Following the leader: mechanical loading or stiffness sensing?
John A. Jansen, X. Frank Walboomers, Hatice Imran Gungordu
Influence of actin stress fibers on endothelial cell dynamics
Taíla O. Meiga, Alvaro Jorge-Peñas, Hans Van Oosterwyck, Susanna Piluso, Jennifer Patterson
Hydrolytically-degradable click alginate hydrogels
Daniela Garske, Aline Lueckgen, Georg N. Duda, Amaia Cipitria, Rajiv M. Desai, David J. Mooney, Peter Fratzl
Group Decisions influence emergence and regulation of leaders during collective migration of epithelial cells
Medhavi Vishwakarma, Tamal Das, Joachim Spatz
Development of a high-throughput cell migration assay using dynamically adhesive micro-patterned substrates
Filipe Almeida, John Connelly
The dynamic mechanical adaptation of keratocytes squeezed on 2D micropatterns
Danahe Mohammed, Sylvain Gabriele, Guillaume Charras
Measuring local 3D tissue stiffness using microengineered smart material probes
Stephanie Mok, Wontae Lee, Sarah Dubois, Katherine Macdonald, Richard L Leask, Christopher Moraes
Mapping cell forces within 3D tissue engineered spheroid cultures using dispersible hydrogel mechanosensors
Wontae Lee, Richard L. Leask, Christopher Moraes, Shuichi Takayama, Andrew J. Putnam, Rahul K. Singh
Adhesivity modulates cell mechanics on in vivo mimetic methacrylated gelatin gels
Shamik Sen, Amlan Barai, Edna George
Computational model of cell migration through a viscoelastic extracellular matrix by local degradation and filopodia-based traction forces
Tommy Heck, Hans Van Oosterwyck, Herman Ramon, Bart Smeets, Paul Van Liedekerke
Differential response of basal and cap actin fibers to combined topographical cues and cyclic uniaxial strain
Frank Baaijens, Carlijn Bouten, Chiara Tamiello
Directed protrusion growth: communication and critical length-scales
Aldo Jesorkaa, Gavin D. M. Jeffriesa , Shijun Xua, Haijiang Zhang, Anna A. Kim
Designing an artificial 3D microenvironment for probing geometrical cues influencing stem cell fate
Min Bao, Jing Xie, Stéphanie Bruekers, Wilhelm Huck
Decellularized extracellular matrices to dissect the contribution of mechanosome to cardiac pathologies
Stefania Pagliari, Giancarlo Forte, Ana Rubina Perestrelo, Jorge Oliver de la Cruz, Vladimír Vinarský, Víta Žampachová, Vladimír Horváth, Diana S. Nascimento, Perpétua Pinto-do-Ó
YAP/TAZ mechanosensors as determinants of cardiac cell maturation and function
Stefania Pagliari, Vladimir Vinarsky, Fabiana Martino, Ana Rubina Perestrelo, Giancarlo Forte
Effect of physicochemical properties and peptide ligands on fibroblasts embedded in dual crosslinked pectin hydrogels for skin repair
Aureliana Sousa, Ruben Pereira, Cristina Barrias, Pedro Granja, Paulo Bártolo
Biophysical interactions of primary human cells and porous silicon nanoneedles
Spencer Crowder, Catherine Hansel, Sahana Gopal, Ciro Chiappini, Molly Stevens
Re-programming cell contacts
Simge Yuz
Correlation between cell morphology, tractions and motility of endothelial cells on compliant substrates
Alicia Izquierdo-Alvarez, Alvaro Jorge-Peñas, Diego A. Vargas, Srilakshmi Ragunathan, Hans Van Oosterwyck, Ramesh Subramani
Local microenvironment of collagen gels drives cell spreading through cell-fiber interactions
Wilhelm Huck, Min Bao, Jing Xie
Investigating regulation of mammary epithelial morphogenesis by ECM remodeling
Zuzana Koledova
Confounding effects of macromolecular crowding and extracellular matrix on fibroblast proliferation
Jenna Graham, Nikhil Jain, Viola Vogel, Denis Wirtz
Tracing cell fate and decision-making to local, dynamic cell–matrix mechanical interactions
Nicholas A. Kurniawan
Beta-sarcoglycan deficiency displays reduced atherosclerotic plaque development in ApoE-null mice
Uwe Rauch, Anna Hultgardh Nilsson, Vignesh Murugesan
Scaffold mechanics modulates lipid uptake in THP-1 derived macrophages in 3D matrices
Mischa Bonn, Sapun Parekh, Mischa Schwendy, Ronald E. Unger
Geometry-guided cell migration on competing length scales
Carlijn Bouten, Nicholas Kurniawan, Maike Werner, Ansgar Petersen
3D ultrastructure and morphology of stem cell spheroids by SBF-SEM
Josef Jaros, Ales Hampl, Michal Petrov, Marketa Tesarova
Functional impact of blebs in a novel alternative cancer 3D invasion mode.
Asja Guzman, Oh Sang Kweon, Laura J. Kaufman
Mouse embryonic fibroblast derived matrices regulate fate and genomic integrity of mouse embryonic stem cells
Lakshmi Kavitha Sthanam, Shamik Sen
Confined cancer cell invasion is dependent on the physical properties of the extracellular matrix
Andrew Holle, Joachim Spatz, Ralf Kemkemer
Force loading explains how substrate rigidity and ligand nano-distribution regulate cell response
Alberto Elosegui-Artola, Pere Roca-Cusachs, Roger Oria, Daniel Navajas, Xavier Trepat, Juan Jose Uriarte, Tina Wiegand, Elisabetta Ada Cavalcanti-Adam, Jorge Escribano, José Manuel García-Aznar
Protein Kinase A Subunit Response to Hydrogel Substrates
Michelle L. Oyen, Jenna M. Shapiro, Constantine A. Stratakis