Session 1: Shape, force, cytosekelton, chair: Paul Forscher
- Chad McCormick (Pollard lab): Advances in Quantitative Cell Biology: Progress Towards In Vivo Thermodynamics
- Katie Rosowski and Aaron Mertz (Horsley and Dufresne labs): Mechanics of adhesion and differentiation in the epidermis
- William Pontius (Emonet lab): Signaling characteristics of spatially localized push-pull systems
Session 2: Proteins and nucleic acids, chair: Tim Craggs (Grindley lab)
- Andrew Mack and Danny Schlingman (Mochrie and Regan labs): Winding and unwinding of DNA and chromatin
- Megan King (King lab): Chromatin and nuclear mechanics
- Kathryn Miller-Jensen (Miller-Jensen lab): Systems analysis of virus-host signaling network interactions
- Sunny Han, Office of Cooperative Research
- Mitch Kundel, Graduate Teaching Center
Session 3: Protein folding and design, chair: Liz Rhoades
- Abhi Nath (Rhoades/Miranker labs): Conformations of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: Combined Computational and Experimental Approaches
- Tijana Grove and Corey O’Hern (Regan and O’Hern labs): Designing a new type of smart protein-based hydrogel: experimental and theoretical studies
- Li Fu (Yan lab): Probing the misfolding, structure, and orientation of amyloid proteins at interfaces by sum frequency generation spectroscopy
Session 4: Complex systems, chair: Lynne Regan
- Carlotta Martelli (Emonet lab): Dynamics of odor coding in Drosophila Olfactory Receptor Neurons
- Alberto Bernacchia (Wang lab): A reservoir of time constants for memory traces in cortical neurons
- Michael Levene (Levene lab): Finding clinical applications for biophysics: Fluctuation spectroscopy of multimer distributions