Rigidity Transitions in Biological Tissues and Materials

Presentations

• Power-laws in collagen-fiber density across tissue types fits viscoelasticity above gelation and identifies a mechano-regulome

  ORAL · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Dennis E Discher

    • University of Pennsylvania

  Authors

  • Dennis E Discher

    • University of Pennsylvania

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• Mechanical criticality in extracellular matrices

  ORAL · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Publication: JL Shivers, S Arzash, FC MacKintosh, Nonlinear Poisson effect governed by a mechanical critical transition. Phys Rev Lett, 124: 038002 (2020).
  
  JL Shivers, A Sharma, FC MacKintosh, Strain-controlled slowing down in the rheology of disordered networks. Phys Rev Lett 131: 178201 (2023).
  
  S Chen, T Markovich, FC MacKintosh, Field Theory for Mechanical Criticality in Disordered Fiber Networks. Phys Rev Lett, 133: 028201 (2024).

  Presenters

  • Fred C MacKintosh

    • Rice University

  Authors

  • Fred C MacKintosh

    • Rice University

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• Biomacromolecular phase separation and assembly in elastic networks

  ORAL · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Publication: Kathryn G. Wilcox, Stephanie Kramer, Surajit Chatterjee, Adam Linscott, Sneha Suresh, Lydia Kisley, and Svetlana Morozova*, "Effect of polyacrylamide gel elasticity on collagen type II fibril assembly." Soft Matter, 2024
  Kathryn G. Wilcox, Kai Yamagami, Brittany Roopnarine, Adam Linscott, Svetlana Morozova*. "Effect of Polymer Gel Elasticity on Coacervate Phase Behavior." ACS Polymers Au, 2023

  Presenters

  • Svetlana Morozova

    • Case Western Reserve University

  Authors

  • Svetlana Morozova

    • Case Western Reserve University

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• Scaling functions for rigidity transitions in disordered systems near 2 dimensions

  ORAL · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Publication: S. J. Thornton, I. Cohen, J. P. Sethna, and D. B. Liarte, Universal scaling solution for a rigidity transition: Renormalization group flows near the upper critical dimension, Phys. Rev. E 111, 045508 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Stephen Thornton

    • Cornell University
    • University of California, Los Angeles

  Authors

  • Stephen Thornton

    • Cornell University
    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Danilo B Liarte

    • ICTP-SAIFR South American Institute for Fundamental Research

  • Itai Cohen

    • Cornell University

  • James Patarasp Sethna

    • Cornell University

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• Rigidity transitions in confluent and mesenchymal biological tissues

  ORAL · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 17, 2026, 6:30 PM

  Presenters

  • M Lisa Manning

    • Syracuse University
    • Syracuse University, Bioinspired Institute
    • Department of Physics and BioInspired Institute, Syracuse University
    • Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244,BioInspired Institute, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244

  Authors

  • M Lisa Manning

    • Syracuse University
    • Syracuse University, Bioinspired Institute
    • Department of Physics and BioInspired Institute, Syracuse University
    • Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244,BioInspired Institute, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244

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