Mechanics of Cells and Tissues IV

Presentations

• Elastic interactions of mechanically-polarizable cells

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 19, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 19, 2026, 8:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Assaf Zemel

    • Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  Authors

  • Assaf Zemel

    • Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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• Integrating Optical Trapping into Light Sheet Florescence Microscopy Build for Cytoskeleton Network Structural Analysis

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:12 AM – March 19, 2026, 8:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Ryan Chen

    • Pitzer College

  Authors

  • Ryan Chen

    • Pitzer College

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• Cell-Dependent Phagocytosis of Nonspherical Nanoparticles Enables Selective Immune Targeting

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:24 AM – March 19, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Shu Yang

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Shu Yang

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Leila Elhaissouni

  • Qin Qi

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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• A Predictive Model for Coupling Cell Division Orientation to Tissue Mechanics During Epithelial Morphogenesis

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 19, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Somiealo Azote epse Hassikpezi

    • Syracuse University

  Authors

  • Somiealo Azote epse Hassikpezi

    • Syracuse University

  • Rajendra Singh Negi

  • M Lisa Manning

    • Syracuse University

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• Junctional fluctuations in three-dimensional epithelial tissue

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Presenters

  • Toshikaze Chiba

    • Jozef Stefan Institute

  Authors

  • Toshikaze Chiba

    • Jozef Stefan Institute

  • Matej Krajnc

    • Jozef Stefan Institute

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• Deformable Particle Modeling Reveals How Cell Shape Dynamics Govern Collective Cell Motion

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Gautham Gopinath

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Gautham Gopinath

    • Yale University

  • Emmanuel Mintah

    • Yale University

  • Corey O'Hern

    • Yale University

  • Mark D Shattuck

    • The City College of New York

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• Tissue mechanics: Insight from continuum mechanics for revised vertex models

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Sascha Hilgenfeldt

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  Authors

  • Sascha Hilgenfeldt

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Jairo Martin Rojas Huamaní

    • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Mayisha Nakib

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Ran Yang

  • Vivian Tang

  • William Brieher

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• Epithelial Cell Shapes Emerge from Motion in Confluent Monolayers

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Emmanuel Mintah

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Emmanuel Mintah

    • Yale University

  • Gautham Gopinath

    • Yale University

  • Mark D Shattuck

    • The City College of New York

  • Corey OHern

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• Effect of intercellular friction in active vertex and Voronoi models of cellular monolayers

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 19, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Yeeren Low

    • University of Vermont

  Authors

  • Yeeren Low

    • University of Vermont

  • Haicen Yue

    • University of Vermont

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• Feedback-controlled epithelial mechanics: emergent order, soft elasticity, and active yielding

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Publication: Yu, P., Brauns, F., & Marchetti, M. C. (in preparation). Feedback-controlled epithelial mechanics: emergent soft elasticity and active yielding.

  Presenters

  • Pengyu Yu

    • Tsinghua university

  Authors

  • Pengyu Yu

    • Tsinghua university

  • Fridtjof Brauns

    • Max-Planck-Institut for the Physics of Complex Systems

  • M. Cristina Marchetti

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

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• Vimentin Promotes Collective Migration and Invasion Under Compressive Stress in 3D Spheroids

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Nuzhat Faiza Nufa

    • Syracuse University

  Authors

  • Nuzhat Faiza Nufa

    • Syracuse University

  • Jennifer Schwarz

  • Alison Patteson

    • Syracuse University

  • Minh Tri Ho Thanh

    • Syracuse University

  • Tao Zhang

    • Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ

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• When Random Beats Routine: Stochastic Hormone-Sensitive Cancer Deprivation Therapy

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Robert Austin

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Robert Austin

    • Princeton University

  • Shengkai Li

    • Princeton University

  • Trung Phan

    • Claremont Colleges (Scripps and Pitzer)

  • Kenneth Pienta

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Joel Brown

    • Moffitt Cancer Center

  • Robert Gatenby

    • Moffitt Cancer Center

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• Fracture patterns in Pseudomonas aeruginosa swarms

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:36 AM

  Presenters

  • Jingqi Zhang

    • Brown University

  Authors

  • Jingqi Zhang

    • Brown University

  • Brandon Pugnet

    • Brown University

  • Jay Tang

    • Brown University

  • Haneesh Kesari

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• Microplastics as Moving Bugs within Model Cell Tissue

  Oral-In-person

  March 19, 2026, 10:36 AM – March 19, 2026, 10:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Xinyu Luo

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  Authors

  • Sun-Min Yu

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Xinyu Luo

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Steve Granick

    • University of Massachusetts Amherst

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