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1796-P os B oard #B526 SPATIOTEMPORAL TENSION DISTRIBUTION OF INDIVIDUAL STRESS FIBERS AT THE CELL-MATRIX INTERFACE. Ching-Wei Chang , Sanjay Kumar 1797-P os B oard #B527 VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELL STIFFNESS: A NOVEL MECHANISM FOR THE INCREASED AORTIC STIFFNESS IN HYPERTENSION AND AGING. Nancy L. Sehgel , Yi Zhu, Zhe Sun, William C. Hunter, Jerome P. Trzeciakowski, Dorothy E. Vatner, Stephen F. Vatner, Gerald A. Meininger 1798-P os B oard #B528 THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF A SINGLE PLANT CELL TO ITS MECHANICS: HOW THE PLANT CELL BECOMES ANIMAL-LIKE. Pauline Durand-Smet , Alain Richert, Annick Berne-Dedieu, Mohammed Bendahmane, Jean Marie Frachisse, Olivier Hamant, Arezki Boudaoud, Atef Asnacios 1799-P os B oard #B529 MUSCLE-LIKE BEHAVIOUR OF NON-MUSCLE CELLS AND REAL-TIME SINGLE CELL RESPONSE TO STIFFNESS. Atef Asnacios 1800-P os B oard #B530 DESMIN, MECHANICS AND MYOFIBRILLAR MYOPATHIES. Elisabeth Charrier , Atef Asnacios, Sabrina Batonnet-Pichon, Patrick Vicart, Sylvie Hénon 1801-P os B oard #B531 THE CELL AS A LIQUIDMOTOR: INTRINSICMECHANOSENSITIVE PROPERTIES OF THE ACTOMYOSIN CORTEX. Etienne Jocelyn , Jonathan Fouchard, Démosthène Mitrossilis, Nathalie Bufi, Pauline Durand, Atef Asnacios 1802-P os B oard #B532 international travel awardee THE EFFECTS OF OUT OF PLANE CURVATURE ON COLLECTIVE CELL MIGRATION. Hannah Yevick , Guillaume Duclos, Isabelle Bonnet, Pascal Silberzan 1803-P os B oard #B533 A SLIPPING CLUTCH IN NEURONAL GROWTH CONES REVEALED BY TRANSIENT SINGLE MOLECULE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN FLOWING ACTIN AND N-CADHERIN ADHESIONS. Mikael Garcia, Cécile Leduc, Amélie Argento, Jean-Baptiste Sibarita, Olivier R. Thoumine 1804-P os B oard #B534 MOLECULAR MECHANISMS OF CONTRACTILITY-BASED CELLULAR MECHANOSENSING. Douglas N. Robinson , Tianzhi Luo, Krithika Mohan, Vasudha Srivastava, Yixin Ren, Pablo Iglesias 1805-P os B oard #B535 VIMENTIN AFFECTS ACTIN NETWORK PERCOLATION AND MECHANICS. Mikkel H. Jensen , Eliza J. Morris, David A. Weitz 1806-P os B oard #B536 INTEGRIN AVIDITY AND CYTOSKELETAL REMODELING REGULATE FORCE-MEDIATED CELL DETACHMENT. Alexander Fuhrmann , Adam J. Engler 1807-P os B oard #B537 DYNAMIC IMAGING WITH HIGH-SPEED AFM TO STUDY CELL MOVEMENT. Norito Kotani , Takashi Morii, Takao Okada 1808-P os B oard #B538 LATERAL WAVES DURING PROTRUSION-RETRACTION CYCLES OF MIGRATING CELLS ARE PROPAGATING CRACKS. Sathish Thiyagarajan , Matthew Stachowiak, Giovanni Meacci, Michael Sheetz, Ben O’Shaughnessy

1809-P os B oard #B539 THE ACTOMYOSINCONTRACTILE RING REGULATES SEPTATION DURING FISSION YEAST CYTOKINESIS. Sathish Thiyagarajan , Zhou Zhou, Laura Munteanu, Fred Chang, Ben O’Shaughnessy 1810-P os B oard #B540 LPA ACTIVATION OF A RHOA/CPKC α -MEDIATED SIGNALING PATHWAY REGULATES OUTER HAIR CELL MOTILITY BY PHOSPHORYLATINGTHE CYTOSKELETAL PROTEIN ADDUCIN. Channy Park, Federico Kalinec 1811-P os B oard #B541 FMG1-B AS A EUKARYOTIC S-LAYER. Puey Ounjai , Kenneth H. Downing 1812-P os B oard #B542 REGULATION OF ACTIN FILAMENT TURNOVER IN BRAIN TUMOR CELL MOTILITY. Brannon R. McCullough , David J. Odde 1813-P os B oard #B543 QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF CELLULAR TRACTION GENERATION AND ACTOMYOSIN DYNAMICS IN A 3D FIBRIN MATRIX. Leanna M. Owen , Arjun S. Adhikari, Luv Gupta, Natascha Leijnse, Alexander R. Dunn 1814-P os B oard #B544 ACTOMYOSIN GENERATED TENSION COORDINATES CELL MOVEMENTS DURING EARLY ZEBRAFISH DEVELOPMENT. Jack Chai , Andrea Hamilton, Michael Krieg, Craig Buckley, Ingmar Riedel-Kruse, Alexander Dunn 1815-P os B oard #B545 FORCE-DEPENDENT INTERACTIONS BETWEEN THE E-CADHERIN-CATENIN COMPLEX AND ACTIN FILAMENTS. Craig D. Buckley , Jiongyi Tan, Beth L. Pruitt, William I. Weis, W. James Nelson, Alexander R. Dunn 1816-P os B oard #B546 B-SPECTRIN AND THE MECHANICAL CONTROL OF THE SENSE OF TOUCH. Michael Krieg , Alexander R. Dunn, Miriam B. Goodman 1817-P os B oard #B547 A NEW MODEL SYSTEM TO EXPLORE THE MECHANISMS AND FUNCTIONS OF GLOBAL CORTICAL CONTRACTION WAVES IN OOCYTE AND EMBRYO CELL DIVISIONS. Johanna Bischof , Imre Majer, Peter Lenart 1818-P os B oard #B548 BAROTAXIS IN A CONFINED NEUTROPHIL. Harrison Prentice-Mott , Chi-Han Chang, L. Mahadevan, Tim Mitchison, Daniel Irimia, Jagesh Shah 1819-P os B oard #B549 CORTICAL AND CYTOSKELETAL STRUCTURAL NETWORK REGULATES THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRACTION FORCES EXERTED BY MIGRATING AMOEBOID CELLS. Begona Alvarez-Gonzalez , Ruedi Meili, Effie E. Bastounis, Juan C. del Alamo, Richard A. Firtel, Juan C. Lasheras 1820-P os B oard #B550 BEAT FREQUENCY IS REDUCED BUT WAVEFORM SHAPE IS CONSERVED IN CHLAMYDOMONAS FLAGELLA AT HIGH VISCOSITY. Kate Wilson , Susan Dutcher, Philip Bayly 1821-P os B oard #B551 SECOND CHANCE MECHANISM EXPLAINS DWELL TIME DISTRIBUTIONS OF MYOSIN AND DYNEIN. Henry G. Zot , Javier E. Hasbun, Nguyen Van Minh

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