Symposium: Cell Mechanics and Motility
Thursday May 7, 2009; Marker Seminar Room
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
| TIME | SPEAKERS |
AFFILIATIONS |
TITLES |
| 9:15 am | David Odde | University of Minnesota |
"Load-and-fail: A motor-clutch"mechanism for stiffness sensing" |
| 10:00 am | Martin Schwartz | University of Virginia | "Measuring tension across the focal adhesion protein vinculin" |
| 11:00am | Josef A. Kaes | University of Leipzig, | "Feeling for Cancer with Light" |
| 11:45 am | Carole Parent | National Cancer Institute, NIH | "Signal propagation during chemotaxis" |
| 12:05 pm | Wolfgang Losert | University of Maryland | "Quantifying directed cell migration" |
| 12:25 pm | LUNCH | On own for audience | |
| 2:00 pm | Arpita Upadhyaya | University of Maryland | "Cytoskeleton mediated spreading dynamics of immune cells" |
| 2:20 pm | Charles Wolgemuth | University of Connecticut Health Center |
"A depolymerization winch drives nematode sperm motility" |
| 3:05 pm | Denise Montell | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | "Group choreography: deciphering the dynamics of border cell migration" |
| 4:15 pm | Kenneth Yamada | National Institutes of Health | "Dimensionality and Dynamics of Cell Migration " |