Poster abstracts

The dynamic mechanical adaptation of keratocytes squeezed on 2D micropatterns

Danahe Mohammed, Sylvain Gabriele, Guillaume Charras

Designing an artificial 3D microenvironment for probing geometrical cues influencing stem cell fate

Min Bao, Jing Xie, Stéphanie Bruekers, Wilhelm Huck

Decellularized extracellular matrices to dissect the contribution of mechanosome to cardiac pathologies

Stefania Pagliari, Giancarlo Forte, Ana Rubina Perestrelo, Jorge Oliver de la Cruz, Vladimír Vinarský, Víta Žampachová, Vladimír Horváth, Diana S. Nascimento, Perpétua Pinto-do-Ó

Geometry-guided cell migration on competing length scales

Carlijn Bouten, Nicholas Kurniawan, Maike Werner, Ansgar Petersen

Influence of actin stress fibers on endothelial cell dynamics

Taíla O. Meiga, Alvaro Jorge-Peñas, Hans Van Oosterwyck, Susanna Piluso, Jennifer Patterson

3D ultrastructure and morphology of stem cell spheroids by SBF-SEM

Josef Jaros, Ales Hampl, Michal Petrov, Marketa Tesarova

Functional impact of blebs in a novel alternative cancer 3D invasion mode.

Asja Guzman, Oh Sang Kweon, Laura J. Kaufman

Mouse embryonic fibroblast derived matrices regulate fate and genomic integrity of mouse embryonic stem cells

Lakshmi Kavitha Sthanam, Shamik Sen

Following the leader: mechanical loading or stiffness sensing?

John A. Jansen, X. Frank Walboomers, Hatice Imran Gungordu

YAP/TAZ mechanosensors as determinants of cardiac cell maturation and function

Stefania Pagliari, Vladimir Vinarsky, Fabiana Martino, Ana Rubina Perestrelo, Giancarlo Forte

Effect of physicochemical properties and peptide ligands on fibroblasts embedded in dual crosslinked pectin hydrogels for skin repair

Aureliana Sousa, Ruben Pereira, Cristina Barrias, Pedro Granja, Paulo Bártolo

Biophysical interactions of primary human cells and porous silicon nanoneedles

Spencer Crowder, Catherine Hansel, Sahana Gopal, Ciro Chiappini, Molly Stevens

Hydrolytically-degradable click alginate hydrogels

Daniela Garske, Aline Lueckgen, Georg N. Duda, Amaia Cipitria, Rajiv M. Desai, David J. Mooney, Peter Fratzl

Confined cancer cell invasion is dependent on the physical properties of the extracellular matrix

Andrew Holle, Joachim Spatz, Ralf Kemkemer

Force loading explains how substrate rigidity and ligand nano-distribution regulate cell response

Alberto Elosegui-Artola, Pere Roca-Cusachs, Roger Oria, Daniel Navajas, Xavier Trepat, Juan Jose Uriarte, Tina Wiegand, Elisabetta Ada Cavalcanti-Adam, Jorge Escribano, José Manuel García-Aznar

Local microenvironment of collagen gels drives cell spreading through cell-fiber interactions

Wilhelm Huck, Min Bao, Jing Xie

Directed protrusion growth: communication and critical length-scales

Aldo Jesorkaa, Gavin D. M. Jeffriesa , Shijun Xua, Haijiang Zhang, Anna A. Kim

Re-programming cell contacts

Simge Yuz

Group Decisions influence emergence and regulation of leaders during collective migration of epithelial cells

Medhavi Vishwakarma, Tamal Das, Joachim Spatz

Correlation between cell morphology, tractions and motility of endothelial cells on compliant substrates

Alicia Izquierdo-Alvarez, Alvaro Jorge-Peñas, Diego A. Vargas, Srilakshmi Ragunathan, Hans Van Oosterwyck, Ramesh Subramani

Development of a high-throughput cell migration assay using dynamically adhesive micro-patterned substrates

Filipe Almeida, John Connelly