Biological Active Matter I

Presentations

• The battle between internal and external forces in microtubule-kinesin active fluid

  ORAL · Invited

  March 17, 2025, 6:00 PM – March 17, 2025, 6:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Kun-Ta Wu

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  Authors

  • Kun-Ta Wu

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • Joshua H Dickie

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • Tianxing Weng

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • Yen-Chen (Anderson) Chen

    Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • YUTIAN HE

    University of Massachusetts Amherst

  • Saloni Saxena

    Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912

  • Robert Pelcovits

    Brown University

  • Thomas R Powers

    Brown University

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• Oral: The collective dynamics of urease as triangular oligomers composed of multistate-state dumbbells

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 6:36 PM – March 17, 2025, 6:48 PM

  Presenters

  • James Adams

    Syracuse University

  Authors

  • James Adams

    Syracuse University

  • Jennifer M Schwarz

    Syracuse University, Department of Physics, Syracuse University

  • Jennifer L Ross

    Syracuse University

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• Nematic Locking Principle and its Implications for Microtubule-based Active Nematics

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 6:48 PM – March 17, 2025, 7:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Md Mainul Hasan Sabbir

    University of California, Merced

  Authors

  • Md Mainul Hasan Sabbir

    University of California, Merced

  • Brandon Klein

    Johns Hopkins University

  • Daniel A Beller

    Johns Hopkins University

  • Spencer A Smith

    Mount Holyoke College

  • Kevin A Mitchell

    University of California, Merced

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• Rotation Dynamics of Flexible Active Filaments with Chiral Self-Propulsion

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 7:00 PM – March 17, 2025, 7:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Chanania Steinbock

    Johns Hopkins University

  Authors

  • Chanania Steinbock

    Johns Hopkins University

  • Xinming Shen

    Johns Hopkins University

  • Daniel A Beller

    Johns Hopkins University

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• Heterogeneous distribution of kinesin–streptavidin complexes revealed by mass photometry

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 7:12 PM – March 17, 2025, 7:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Jing Xu

    University of California, Merced

  Authors

  • Jing Xu

    University of California, Merced

  • Nathaniel Brown

    University of California, Merced

  • Yeonee Seol

    National Institutes of Health (NIH)

  • Keir C Neuman

    National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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• From activity induced anchoring to wetting in liquid-liquid phase separation

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 7:24 PM – March 17, 2025, 7:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Liang Zhao

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Liang Zhao

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Paarth Gulati

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Cristina Marchetti

    UC Santa Barbara

  • Zvonimir Dogic

    University of California, Santa Barbara

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• Microscale velocity-dependent unbinding generates a macroscale performance-economy tradeoff in actomyosin systems

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 7:36 PM – March 17, 2025, 7:48 PM

  Publication: On arXiv by time of presentation

  Presenters

  • Jake McGrath

    University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Jake McGrath

    University of Texas at Austin

  • Brian Kent

    University of Texas at Austin

  • Colin Johnson

    University of Texas at Austin

  • José R Alvarado

    University of Texas at Austin

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• Resolving the Spatiotemporal Power Demand to Sustain Ordered Motor-Microtubule Assemblies

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 7:48 PM – March 17, 2025, 8:00 PM

  Publication: Duarte, A. I., Salmon, G. L., Lee, H. J., Najma, B., Banks, R. A., Hirokawa, S., Ashok, M., Ji, C., Gomez, V., Thomson, M., and Phillips, R. (2025). Resolving the Spatiotemporal Power Demand to Sustain Ordered Motor-Microtubule Assemblies. In<br>preparation.

  Presenters

  • Ana I Duarte

    Caltech

  Authors

  • Ana I Duarte

    Caltech

  • Gabriel L Salmon

    Caltech

  • Heun Jin Lee

    Caltech

  • Bibi Najma

    Caltech

  • Rachel A Banks

    insitro

  • Soichi Hirokawa

    Aix Marseille Université

  • Minakshi Ashok

    Caltech

  • Catherine Ji

    Princeton University

  • Victor Gomez

    Caltech

  • Matt Thomson

    Caltech

  • Rob Phillips

    Caltech

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• Phase separating active fluids form dynamical filamentary networks

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 8:00 PM – March 17, 2025, 8:12 PM

  Publication: arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.07058

  Presenters

  • Paarth Gulati

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Paarth Gulati

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Fernando Caballero

    Brandeis University

  • Cristina Marchetti

    UC Santa Barbara

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• Non-affine deformations and stress relaxation in contractile active gels

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 8:12 PM – March 17, 2025, 8:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Aniket Marne

    The University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Aniket Marne

    The University of Texas at Austin

  • James Clarke

    The University of Texas at Austin

  • James Lee

    The University of Texas at Austin

  • José R Alvarado

    University of Texas at Austin

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• Active force driven shape change in contractile actomyosin gels

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 8:24 PM – March 17, 2025, 8:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Arnab Roy

    University of California, Merced

  Authors

  • Arnab Roy

    University of California, Merced

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• Measuring active nematic fields in an in vitro actomyosin system

  ORAL

  March 17, 2025, 8:36 PM – March 17, 2025, 8:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Mohammadamin Tajik

    Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

  Authors

  • Mohammadamin Tajik

    Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

  • Peter Hampshire

    Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

  • Lutz Vogeley

    Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

  • Heun Jin Lee

    Caltech

  • Rob Phillips

    Caltech

  • Ricard Alert

    Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems

  • Stephan W Grill

    Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

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