Biofluids: Microswimmers and Elasticity

Presentations

• Optimal pumping kinematics of a cilium

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2012, 3:35 PM – Nov. 19, 2012, 3:48 PM

  Authors

  • Christophe Eloy

    • Aix-Marseille University, IRPHE
    • Aix-Marseille University IRPHE
    • IRPHE, Aix-Marseille Univ, France

  • Eric Lauga

    • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego
    • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego
    • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego
    • University of California San Diego
    • University of California at San Diego
    • University of California, San Diego

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• Sperm Motility in Flow

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2012, 3:48 PM – Nov. 19, 2012, 4:01 PM

  Authors

  • Jeffrey Guasto

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT

  • Gabriel Juarez

    • MIT
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Roman Stocker

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT
    • Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering

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• Helical bodies swim slower... and faster... through a viscoelastic fluid

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2012, 4:01 PM – Nov. 19, 2012, 4:14 PM

  Authors

  • Saverio Spagnolie

    • University of Wisconsin
    • University of Wisconsin, Madison
    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Bin Liu

    • Brown University
    • School of Engineering, Brown University

  • Thomas Powers

    • Brown University

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• Modeling the swimming of microbes in anisotropic fluids

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2012, 4:14 PM – Nov. 19, 2012, 4:27 PM

  Authors

  • Madison Krieger

    • Brown University

  • Saverio Spagnolie

    • University of Wisconsin
    • University of Wisconsin, Madison
    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Thomas Powers

    • Brown University

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• Direct micro-mechanical measurements of the material properties and motility of \textit{C. elegans}

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2012, 4:27 PM – Nov. 19, 2012, 4:40 PM

  Authors

  • Matilda Backholm

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4M1, Canada

  • William S. Ryu

    • Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, M5S 1A7, Canada

  • Kari Dalnoki-Veress

    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, L8S 4M1, Canada

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• Effect of rotational diffusion on the collective behavior of swimming microorganisms in viscoelastic fluids

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2012, 4:40 PM – Nov. 19, 2012, 4:53 PM

  Authors

  • Yaser Bozorgi

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Patrick Underhill

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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• Propulsion with a Reciprocal Stroke Enabled by Nonlinear Rheology

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2012, 4:53 PM – Nov. 19, 2012, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Paulo Arratia

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Xiaoning Shen

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Nathan Keim

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Simulations of micro-swimmer scattering by soft elastic filaments

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2012, 5:06 PM – Nov. 19, 2012, 5:19 PM

  Authors

  • Rodrigo Ledesma-Aguilar

    • Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics

  • Julia M. Yeomans

    • Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics

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• Dynamics of Purcell's three-link microswimmer with a passive elastic tail

  ORAL

  Nov. 19, 2012, 5:19 PM – Nov. 19, 2012, 5:32 PM

  Authors

  • Emiliya Passov

    • Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion, Israel

  • Yizhar Or

    • Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion, Israel

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