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846-P os B oard #B601 BIOPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS REVEAL FUSION OF SISTER KINETOCHORES DURING MEIOSIS I. Krishna Sarangapani , Eris Duro, Yi Deng, Kwaku Opoku, Flavia de Lima Alves, Juri Rappsilber, Qiaozhen Ye, Kevin Corbett, Sue Biggins, Adele Marston, Charles Asbury 847-P os B oard #B602 LIMITING CYTOPLASMIC COMPONENTS COUPLE SPINDLE SIZE TO CELL SIZE DURING EMBRYOGENESIS. Michael D. Vahey , Matthew C. Good, Rebecca Heald, Daniel A. Fletcher 848-P os B oard #B603 NOVEL KINESIN REGULATORS OF GAMMA-TURC. Zachary T. Olmsted, Timothy D. Riehlman, Andrew Colliver, Adam M. Winnie, Janet L. Paluh 849-P os B oard #B604 MEASUREMENT OF THE FORCE THAT CENTERS THE MITOTIC SPINDLE IN THE EARLY C. ELEGANS EMBRYO USING MAGNETIC TWEEZERS. Carlos Garzon-Coral , Horatiu Fantana, Jonathon Howard 850-P os B oard #B605 SINGLE-MOLECULE INVESTIGATION OF INTRAFLAGELLAR TRANSPORT DYNAMICS AT THE FLAGELLAR TIP. Anthony P. Kovacs , Jonathan Kessler, Huawen Lin, Je-Luen Li, Susan Dutcher, Yan Mei Wang 851-P os B oard #B606 THE ROLE OF CDC42 AND GIC1 IN THE REGULATION OF SEPTIN FILAMENT FORMATION AND DISSOCIATION. Yashar Sadian, Christos Gatsogiannis, Csilla Patasi, Oliver Hofnagel, Roger S. Goody, Marian Farkasovsky, Stefan Raunser 852-P os B oard #B607 FOCAL ADHESIONS ARE COMPOSED OF FILAMENTOUS SUBUNITS WHOSE LENGTH AND DYNAMICS DEPEND ON THE CELL SPREADING AREA. Shiqiong Hu , Yee-Han Tee, Alexandre Kabla, Alexander Bershadsky, Pascal Hersen 853-P os B oard #B608 CAMKII ACTOMYOSIN INTERACTIONS IN LIVE CELLS. Shahid M. Khan , Ianina Conte, Tom Carter, Justin E. Molloy 854-P os B oard #B609 MECHANICAL STRESS-DRIVEN CHANGES IN THE DYNAMICS OF CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS. Vasudha Srivastava , Shantel Angstadt, Douglas N. Robinson 855-P os B oard #B610 DIFFERENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF NONMUSCLE MYOSIN II ISOFORMS AND FUNCTIONAL DOMAINS TO STRESS FIBER MECHANICS. Ching-Wei Chang , Sanjay Kumar 856-P os B oard #B611 EFFECTS OF POLYMERIZATION AND NUCLEOTIDE IDENTITY ON THE CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS OF THE BACTERIAL ACTIN HOMOLOG MREB. Alexandre Colavin , Jen Hsin, Kerwyn Casey Huang 857-P os B oard #B612 SPATIO-TEMPORAL REGULATION OF MEMBRANE RECRUITMENT OF RAC1 GTPASE DURING CELLULAR POLARIZATION. Sulagna Das , Jingqiao Zhang, Taofei Yin, Yi Wu, Ji Yu 858-P os B oard #B613 PROTEIN KINASE C - ITS ROLE IN PROTRUSION REGULATION. Carol A. Heckman , Jessie Weber, Jason M. Urban, Marilyn L. Cayer, Nancy S. Boudreau

859-P os B oard #B614 IN VITRO RECONSTITUTION OF REMODELING ACTIN ASTERS - STEPS TOWARDS A MINIMAL ACTIVE ACTOMYOSIN CORTEX. Darius V. Koester , Kabir Husain, Elda Iljazi, Scott Hansen, Dyche R. Mullins, Madan Rao, Satyajit Mayor 860-P os B oard #B615 ROLE OF CARP AS A BIO-MECHANOSENSOR. Manuel Chiusa , Lin Zhong, Joe Chen, David Merryman, Chee Lim 861-P os B oard #B616 PRIMARY CILIA RESPOND TO UNIAXIAL STRAIN BY REORIENTING AND ELONGATING ALONG THE AXIS OF STRETCH. Hiroaki Ishikawa , Wallace F. Marshall 862-P os B oard #B617 MEASURING SUB-CELLULAR RHEOLOGY IN ZEBRAFISH EMBRYOS. Marco A. Catipovic , Maria L. Kilfoil, Josef G. Trapani, Ashley R. Carter 863-P os B oard #B618 MAPPING INTERNAL STRESS OF IN VITRO CYTOSKELETAL NETWORKS WITH UV-LASER ABLATION. Martina Lindauer , Jona Kayser, Andreas R. Bausch 864-P os B oard #B619 INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CELLULAR MECHANICS AND BETA AMYLOID IN ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE. Nicole M. Shamitko-Klingensmith , Jonathan W. Boyd, Justin Legleiter 865-P os B oard #B620 TIRF AND MODEL BLOOD VESSELS COMBINED TO ELUCIDATE THE ROLE OF THE CYTOSKELETON IN PLATELET ACTIVATION. Rachel N. Hanson, Sara J. Olson, Solaire Finkenstaedt-Quinn, Christy L. Haynes, Jolene L. Johnson 866-P os B oard #B621 RECONSTITUTED ACTIVE ACTIN NETWORKS IN CONFINEMENT. Carina Pelzl , Katharina Henneberg, Andreas R. Bausch 867-P os B oard #B622 FORCE-DEPENDENT MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF DENDRITIC ACTIN NETWORKS. Tai-De Li , Peter Bieling, Dyche Mullins, Daniel Fletcher 868-P os B oard #B623 ATHERMAL FLUCTUATIONS OF PROBE PARTICLES IN ACTIVE CYTOSKELETAL NETWORK. Irwin Zaid, Heev L. Ayade , Daisuke Mizuno  Cell Mechanics and Motility I (Boards #B624–#B653) 869-P os B oard #B624 FIBROBLAST PHENOTYPE TRANSFORMATION BY COCUTURED CANCER EPITHELIAL CELLS. Rebecca S. Stussman , Yun Chen 870-P os B oard #B625 ENDOTHELIAL SURFACE PROTRUSION BY A POINT LOAD. Yong Chen, Lan Lu, Yunfeng Feng, Gregory D. Longmore, Jin-Yu Shao 871-P os B oard #B626 PROBING COLLECTIVE MIGRATION OF A COMPLEX MULTI-CELLULAR EMBRYONIC TISSUE THROUGH NOVEL 3D BIOETCHING. Melis Hazar , YongTae Kim, Philip R. LeDuc, Lance A. Davidson, William C. Messner

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