Poster Directory

Poster Session – 2^nd Mechanobiology Symposium | October 12, 2019

A poster session demonstrating new research related to the field of mechanobiology in all systems.

• 101 – Regulation of nuclear architecture, mechanics and nucleo-cytoplasmic shuttling of epigenetic factors by cell geometric constraints
  Farid Alisafaei ¹, Doorgesh Sharma Jokhun ², G.V. Shivashankar ², Vivek Shenoy ¹ (1. University of Pennsylvania, 2. National University of Singapore)
• 102 – Oligomerization and nucleocytoplasmic partitioning of NLP transcription factors in the plant nitrate response
  Jeffrey Allen ¹, Lucia Strader ¹ (1. Washington University in St. Louis)
• 103 – The mechanobiology of crawling Euglena
  Marino Arroyo ¹ (1. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech)
• 104 – Is MSL10 involved in maintaining cellular mechanostasis during abiotic and biotic stresses?
  Debarati Basu ¹, Elizabeth Haswell ¹ (1. Washington University in St. Louis)
• 105 – A mechano-chemical approach to understanding directional plant growth patterns
  Natasha Bilkey ¹, Huiyong Li ¹, Marcus Foston ¹, Ram Dixit ¹ (1. Washington University in St. Louis)
• 106 – All models are not created equal: comparing and contrasting two modeling paradigms in mechanobiology
  Christopher Stubbs ¹, Siobhan Braybrook ², Douglas Cook ³ (1. University of Idaho, 2. University of California, Los Angeles, 3. Brigham Young University)
• 107 – Patterning of cell populations by strain-cued solitary waves
  Brian Cox ¹ (1. Independent)
• 108 – Simvastatin, but Not Losartan, Dose-Dependently Inhibits Gel Contraction and Reduces Viability of NIH3T3 and Human Elbow Capsule Cells In Vitro
  Michael David ¹, James Abraham ¹, Aaron Chamberlain ¹, Spencer Lake ¹ (1. Washington University in St. Louis)
• 109 – An optics-free and in situ platform for measuring the mechanical properties of films and tissues with high temporal resolution
  Charles Dhong ¹ (1. University of Delaware)
• 110 – Piconewton forces measured using vinculin and a-Actinin tension sensors at the sarcomere within induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes
  Palash Dutta ¹, Anant Chopra ¹, Paige Cloonan ¹, Subramanian Sundaram ¹, Jourdan Ewoldt ¹, Christopher Chen ¹ (1. Boston University)
• 111 – A multi-resolution approach for modeling and characterization of biological tissues
  Ahmed Elbanna ¹ (1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• 112 – Comparative biomechanical characterization of maize brace roots within and between plants
  Lindsay Erndwein ¹, Elahe Ganji ¹, Megan Killian ¹, Erin Sparks ¹ (1. University of Delaware)
• 113 – Structural determinants of the SPIRAL2 protein important for chiral plant growth
  Ram Dixit ¹, Yuanwei Fan ¹, Natasha Bilkey ¹ (1. Washington University in St. Louis)
• 114 – Investigating the role of deformation-deposition in anti-fouling response of mammalian fur
  Ranajay Ghosh ¹, Hessein Ali ¹, Dipankar Biswas ¹, Milos Krsmanovic ¹, Andrew Dickerson ¹ (1. university of central florida)
• 115 – Extracting mechanical properties of plant cells from atomic-force microscopy and micro-compression experiments
  Leah Ginsberg ¹, Eleftheria Roumeli ¹, Guruswami Ravichandran ¹, Chiara Daraio ¹ (1. California Institute of Technology)
• 116 – Characterization of Arabidopsis hypocotyl viscoelasticity
  Ethan Hoppe ¹, Reid Chunn ², Ryan Emenecker ¹, Roger Rowe ¹, Kenneth Pryse ⁵, Barbara Pickard ¹, Lucia Strader ¹, Guy Genin ¹ (1. Washington University in St. Louis, 2. Harris Stowe State University, 3. Washington University in Saint Louis)
• 117 – Bioprinting of complex 3D vascular networks within cell-laden hydrogels
  Shen Ji ¹, Murat Guvendiren ¹ (1. New Jersey Institute of Technology)
• 118 – Distinguishing mechanical and structural effects on cellular mechano-responsiveness in a 3D porous scaffold
  Shumeng Jiang ¹, Cheng Lyu ², Guy Genin ¹, Yanan Du ² (1. Washington University in St. Louis, 2. Tsinghua University)
• 119 – Upscaling active-gel theory of actomyosin cortex to epithelial mechanics
  Sohan Kale ¹, Adam Ouzeri ², Alejandro Torres-Sánchez ², Marino Arroyo ² (1. Virginia Tech, 2. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech)
• 120 – Magnetoactive substrates for cell mechanobiology
  Emile Kraus ¹, Andy Clark ², Alexander Bennett ¹, Paul Janmey ¹, Xuemei Cheng ² (1. University of Pennsylvania, 2. Bryn Mawr College)
• 121 – A spiral growth study to reveal chemical nature and plant cell wall mechanics using AFM-IR
  Huiyong Li ¹, Natasha Bilkey ¹, Marcus Foston ¹, Ram Dixit ¹ (1. Washington University in St. Louis)
• 122 – In silico exploration of mechanical properties of extracellular matrix and cation channel activity in cartilage
  Deng Li ¹, Kai chih Yeh ¹, Shu-Wei Chang ¹ (1. National Taiwan University)
• 123 – Opposite responses of normal hepatocytes and hepatocellular carcinoma cells to substrate viscoelasticity
  Kalpana Mandal ¹, Ze Gong ¹, Alexis Rylander Bennett ¹, Vivek Shenoy ¹, Paul Janmey ¹ (1. University of Pennsylvania)
• 124 – The functional impact of Nav1.5 sodium channel mechanosensitivity modeled by an in silico smooth muscle cell model
  Arnaldo Mercado-Perez ¹, Peter Strege ¹, Gianrico Farrugia ¹, Arthur Beyder ¹ (1. Mayo Clinic)
• 125 – Controlling osteoblast activity with copper-free azide-alkyne cycloaddition of integrin binding peptides to alginate hydrogels
  Sydney Neal ¹, Era Jain ¹, Rama Balasubramaniam ¹, Nathaniel Huebsch ¹, Lori Setton ¹ (1. Washington University in St. Louis)
• 126 – Beyond tensegrity the Pavlides Elastegrity (PE)
  Eleftherios Pavlides ¹ (1. Roger Williams University)
• 127 – Functional characterization of plant members of the Piezo mechanosensitive ion channel family
  Ivan Radin ¹, Ryan Richardson ¹, Carlisle Bascom ³, Ethan Weiner ¹, Magdalena Bezanilla ⁵, Elizabeth Haswell ¹ (1. Washington University in St. Louis, 2. University of California, San Diego, 3. Dartmouth College)
• 128 – Mechanisms of efficient hierarchical compaction of collagen by fibroblasts
  Delaram Shakiba ¹, Farid Alisafaei ², Alireza Savadipour ¹, Roger Rowe ⁴, Zhangao Liu ¹, Kenneth Pryse ¹, Vivek Shenoy ², Elliot Elson ¹, Guy Genin ¹ (1. Washington University in St. Louis, 2. University of Pennsylvania, 3. Washington University in Saint Louis)
• 129 – Tissue interfacial stresses modulate cell-ECM interactions
  Xuechen Shi ¹, Tiankai Zhao ¹, Sulin Zhang ¹ (1. The Pennsylvania State University)
• 130 – Maintaining self-control: Intramolecular regulation of cell death signaling by mechanosensitive channel MSL10
  Jennette Shoots ¹, Debarati Basu ¹, Elizabeth Haswell ¹ (1. Washington University in St. Louis)
• 131 – Efficient fabrication of lung-on-a-chip device with in situ imaging capabilities
  Whitney Sinclair ¹, Deborah Leckband ¹, Paul Kenis ¹, Catherine Murphy ¹ (1. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• 132 – MD modeling of YAP mechanosensing in cancer progression
  Tom Stadtmüller ¹, Patrick Onck ¹, Siewert-Jan Marrink ¹, Erik Van der Giessen ¹ (1. University of Groningen)
• 133 – Evaluating the effect of surface charge of piezoelectric fibrous scaffolds for plant cell culture
  Richard Vincent ¹, Ryan Calcutt ², Derrick Dean ³, Ram Dixit ², Treena Arinzeh ¹ (1. New Jersey Institute of Technology, 2. Washington University in St. Louis, 3. Alabama State University)
• 134 – Epithelial cells sense distant stiffness through ECM deformation and realignment
  Christopher Walter ¹, Amit Pathak ¹ (1. Washington University in St. Louis)
• 135 – Mechanosensitive ion channels MSL7 and MSL8 play multiple roles in pollen biology
  Yanbing Wang ¹, Elizabeth Haswell ¹, Gregory Jensen ¹ (1. Washington University in St. Louis)
• 136 – Biomolecular condensates in motion
  Edward Wilkinson ¹, Ryan Emenecker ¹, Lucia Strader ¹ (1. Washington University in St. Louis)
• 137 – Mechanomorphogenesis of bacterial biofilms
  Jing Yan ¹ (1. Yale University)