Symp. 9: Cellular materials: mechanics and motility (Org.: W. Alt, E. Frey)


Invited Talk
J. Spatz: Stimulating, manipulating, and probing the mechanical behaviour of fibroblast and melanocyte cells on nanostructured surfaces

Short contribution
A. Bausch: Probing local properties in complex biomaterials
A. Ott: Mechanical aspects of cell behavior and motion
C. Schmidt: Micromechanics of motor proteins

Poster
E. G. Civelekoglu: Endothelial cell's response to applied shear and stretch
P. Dieterich: Quantification of shear stress-induced cell migration in endothelial cultures
W. Feneberg: Strain field mapping of the cell membrane of endothelial cells
M. Ghelmez: Fatty acids mixtures under laser treatment: Experiment and computer models
R. Klages: A simple deterministic model of Brownian motors
L. Le Goff: Tracer studies of thermally and non-thermally activated dynamics of semi-flexible actin filaments
A. Micoulet: Mechanics, stress fiber formation and force generation of a single GFP-actin fibroblast
B. M. Mulder: Poster 1: A model for plant cell wall construction; Poster 2: Steps towards a model for tip growth in plant cells
M. Ott: Control of cell adhesion through selective patterning with gold nanoclusters and passivation by polyethyleneglycol stars
U. Seifert: Dynamics of binding and unbinding of membranes and molecules
T. Surrey: Organization of microtubules by two motors with opposite directionality
A. Vilfan: Collective oscillations of molecular motors
C. Wiggins: Nonequilibrium dynamics of semiflexible biopolymers