Physics of the Cytoskeleton I

Presentations

• Non-equilibrium tubulin conformational transitions drive microtubule dynamic instability

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 3:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Ao Ma

    • University of Illinois Chicago

  Authors

  • Ao Ma

    • University of Illinois Chicago

  • Shannon Stewman

  • Kenneth Tsui

    • University of Illinois at Chicago

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• A Mechano-chemical Model for γTuRC-mediated Microtubule Nucleation

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 3:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 3:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Kenneth Tsui

    • University of Illinois at Chicago

  Authors

  • Kenneth Tsui

    • University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Ao Ma

    • University of Illinois Chicago

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• Structural mechanics of microtubules at the mesoscale computed from an atomistic approach

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 3:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Alex Heinerikson

  Authors

  • Alex Heinerikson

  • Andrew Weber

    • Missouri Institute for Defense & Energy

  • James Currie

  • Stephen Young

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• The Effect of TPX2 on the Mechanical Stability of Microtubules

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Sanjay Kumar Keshava

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Sanjay Kumar Keshava

    • Princeton University

  • J. Pedro de Souza

    • Princeton University

  • Sabine Petry

    • Princeton University

  • Joshua Shaevitz

    • Princeton University

  • Howard Stone

    • Princeton University

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• How molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂) modulates actin assembly kinetics and NIH-3T3 fibroblast cell morphology and spreading 

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Ellen Kang

    • University of Central Florida

  Authors

  • Ellen Kang

    • University of Central Florida

  • Bryan Demosthene

  • Tristen Gerren

  • Dylan Jeff

  • Taylor Douglas

    • University of Central Florida

  • Tamar Yishay

  • Saiful Khondaker

  • Robert Steward

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• Mechanical Information Processing in Adherent Cells

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 18, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Margaret Gardel

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Margaret Gardel

    • University of Chicago

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• Mechanics of the vimentin juxtanuclear cage

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Nadab Wubshet

    • Harvard University

  Authors

  • Nadab Wubshet

    • Harvard University

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• Centrosome Repositioning and Nuclear Architecture: Implications for T Cell Activation

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Frank Fazekas

    • University of Maryland College Park

  Authors

  • Frank Fazekas

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Ivan Rey-Suarez

  • Aashli Pathni

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Mikayla Greiner

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Matthew Connell

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Arpita Upadhyaya

    • University of Maryland College Park

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• Role of cytoskeletal mechanics in wound healing in the single-celled Stentor coeruleus

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Moumita Das

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Moumita Das

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Soumik Mitra

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Aravind Rao Karanam

    • Rochester Institute of Technology

  • Wallace Marshall

    • University of California, San Francisco

  • Sindy Tang

    • Stanford University

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• Characterization of the Mechanism Behind Microtubule Dynamic Instability Using Artificial Inteligence

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 18, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Publication: Usage of Artificial Neural Networks to Probe the Mechanism of Dynamic Instability (planned)

  Presenters

  • Alexander Simmons

    • University of Notre Dame

  Authors

  • Alexander Simmons

    • University of Notre Dame

  • Walter Scheirer

  • Holly Goodson

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• Data-driven modeling of the actin cytoskeleton

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 18, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Sattvic Ray

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Sattvic Ray

    • University of Chicago

  • Liya Ding

  • Annabel King

  • Margaret Gardel

    • University of Chicago

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• Diffusion models learn underlying trends in actomyosin networks and predict behavior at unseen filament turnover

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 6:06 PM – March 18, 2026, 6:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Elisabeth Rennert

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Elisabeth Rennert

    • University of Chicago

  • Agnish Kumar Behera

  • Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

    • University of Chicago

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