Session 1 - Chair: Peter So

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Time

Title of Presentation

Speaker

1

9.15 - 9.45 am

Nanofabrication and Multimeric Interactions

Michael Sheetz

2

9.45 - 10.15 am

Needles in a haystack: Chemo-mechanical sorting of stem cells from the marrow niche

Krystyn Van Vliet

3

10.15 - 10.45 am

Forces exerted by epithelial cells and mechano-transduction through cadherin adhesions

Benoit Ladoux

10.45 - 11.15 am

Tea Break (Foyer)

-

4

11.15 - 11.45 am

Heterotypic cell culture in microfluidic systems: applications to angiogenesis and metastatic cancer drug screens

Roger Kamm

5

11.45 am - 12.15 pm

Impact of cellular geometry on nuclear mechanics & genome regulation

Shivashankar GV

Session 2 - Chair: Michael Sheetz

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Time

Title of Presentation

Speaker

1

2.00 - 2.30 pm

Dynamic Modeling and Control of Cell Migration

Harry Asada

2

2.30 - 3.00 pm

Adhesion-dependent cell mechanosensitivity and organization of the actin cytoskeleton

Alexander Bershadsky

3

3.00 - 3.30 pm

Microfabricated Cytometry Methods to Analyze Rare Endometrial Cells in Peritoneal Fluid Cell Mixtures

Linda Griffith

3.30 - 4.00 pm

Tea Break (Foyer)

-

4

4.00 - 4.30 pm

Stem cell interaction with extracellular matrix and nano-topography for tissue engineering applications

Evelyn Yim

5

4.30 - 5.00 pm

Biophysical characterization and manipulation of complex cell mixtures

Jongyoon Han

5.00 - 6.00 pm

Round -Table Discussion (Auditorium, Seminar Rm 2 & 3)

All

Session 3 - Chair: Roger Kamm

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Time

Title of Presentation

Speaker

1

9.00 - 9.30 am

In-vitro study of collective cell migration in 2 and 3D

Chwee Teck Lim

2

9.30 - 10.00 am

Developmental Stem Cells - Bench to Bedside

Jerry Chan

3

10.00 - 10.30 am

Information processing by single yeast cells

Pascal Hersen

10.30 - 11.00 am

Tea Break (Foyer)

4

11.00 - 11.30 am

DNA Biophysics in Confined Environments and Under Tension

Patrick Doyle

5

11.30 - 12.00 noon

DNA overstretching transition and the biophysical properties of s-DNA

Jie Yan

Session 4 - Chair: Paul Matsudaira

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Time

Title of Presentation

Speaker

1

1.00 - 1.30 pm

Advances in Optical Instrumentations for Bioinformatics, Therapy, and Biotechnology

Peter So

2

1.30 - 2.00 pm

3D Optics

George Barbastathis

3

2.00 - 2.30 pm

Mean field theories for protein structure modeling

Patrice Koehl

2.30 - 3.00 pm

Tea Break (Foyer)

4

3.00 - 3.30 pm

Molecular and Network Modeling in Synthetic and Systems Biology

Bruce Tidor

5

3.30 - 4.00 pm

Mimicking cotranscriptional RNA folding: a computational, physical and enzymatic approach

Virgile Viasnoff

4.00 - 5.00 pm

Round Table Wrap up on collaboration opportunities (Auditorium, Seminar Rm 2 & 3)

All