Mechanics of Cells and Tissues II

Presentations

• The physics of cell migration in confining matrices

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Ovijit Chaudhuri

    • Stanford University

  Authors

  • Ovijit Chaudhuri

    • Stanford University

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• The dominant role of cell surface tension in cytoplasmic fluid mechanics

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 17, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Publication: A manuscript is being prepared based on this work for submission to a peer reviewed journal.

  Presenters

  • Zdenek Otruba

    • Columbia Unviversity

  Authors

  • Ozgur Sahin

    • Columbia University

  • Zdenek Otruba

    • Columbia Unviversity

  • Sonia McGaffigan

  • Brunvens Sejour

  • Guillaume Baffou

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• Single oncogene expression alters shape and viscoelasticity of breast cancer cells and increases migration

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Publication: Planned paper: Single oncogene expression alters shape and viscoelasticity of breast cancer cells and increases migration

  Presenters

  • Ellen Pørtner

    • University of Southern Denmark

  Authors

  • Ellen Pørtner

    • University of Southern Denmark

  • Adam Simonsen

  • Jesper Nylandsted

  • Sabina Elmi

  • Stine Sønder

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• Intracellular Crowding Alters Cell Mechanics and Dynamics during Aging

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Publication: Submitted to PNAS. "Aging Changes Cell Mechanics and Dynamics with a Backbone of Cytoplasmic Crowding"

  Presenters

  • Lani Lee

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Lani Lee

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Yuechuan Lin

  • Krishna Penumatsa

  • Peter So

  • Ming Guo

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• Effective Viscosity in a Collectively Migrating Epithelial Cell Monolayer

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Publication: arXiv:2501.03401 and arXiv:2508.11518

  Presenters

  • Jacob Notbohm

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Authors

  • Molly McCord

  • Jacob Notbohm

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

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•  Viscoelasticity and plasticity of living tissue revealed by a microfluidic rheometer

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Mrinal Pandey

    • Cornell University

  Authors

  • Mrinal Pandey

    • Cornell University

  • Bangguo Zhu

  • Kaitlyn Roach

  • Young Joon Suh

    • Cornell University

  • Faith Muriuki

  • Chung-yuen Hui

    • Cornell University

  • Jeffrey Segall

  • Mingming Wu

    • Cornell University

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• Bridging Scales and Methods in Cellular Mechanics: Integrating Microfluidic and AFM Measurements in Mouse Oocytes

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 17, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Publication: 1. Barbier, Lucie, et al. "Noninvasive characterization of oocyte deformability in microconstrictions." Science Advances 11.8 (2025): eadr9869.
  2. Rezaei, Behnam, et al. "A Minimal Model for Cell Mechanical Characterization Through Microfluidic Constrictions; Application to Mouse Oocyte". Planned to submit

  Presenters

  • Behnam Rezaei

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  Authors

  • Behnam Rezaei

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Marie-Emilie Terret

  • Clément Campillo

  • Franck Vernerey

    • University of Colorado, Boulder

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• Spatial heterogeneity in epithelial cell area under induced cell contraction

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Hareesh Ashok Kumar

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Authors

  • Hareesh Ashok Kumar

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Jacob Notbohm

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

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• Effect of Cell–Cell Adhesion on Epithelial Monolayer Fluidity

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Pradip Kumar Bera

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Authors

  • Pradip Kumar Bera

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Jacob Notbohm

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• Dynamics of spatiotemporal patterning of synthetic Notch signal transduction in a growing tissue in vivo.

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:12 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Publication: Contact area and tissue growth dynamics shape synthetic juxtacrine signaling patterns. J. E. Dawson, A. Bryant, B. Walton, S. Bhikot, S. Macon, A. Ajamu-Johnson, T. Jordan, P. D. Langridge, A. N. Malmi-Kakkada. Biophysics Journal (Vol. 124), 2025

  Presenters

  • Jonathan Dawson

    • Whitworth University

  Authors

  • Jonathan Dawson

    • Whitworth University

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• Design Space for Cellular Self-Assembly and Dynamics

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:24 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Sayantan Dutta

    • IIT Bombay

  Authors

  • Sanbed Das

  • Dikshant Parashar

  • Tapomoy Bhattacharjee

    • National Centre For Biological Sciences (TIFR)

  • Sayantan Dutta

    • IIT Bombay

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• Training material properties of biological tissues via mechanical memory

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 2:36 PM – March 17, 2026, 2:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Sadjad Arzash

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Sadjad Arzash

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Shiladitya Banerjee

    • Georgia Institute of Technology

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