Biophysical and Microscale Analyses of Molecular and Cellular Function

Session Co-Chairs:

• Neda Bagheri, Northwestern University
• Ian C. Schneider, Iowa State University

Invited Speakers:

• Celeste Nelson, Princeton University: Sculpting airways and ducts-the physical forces of tissue morphogenesis

Oral Presentations:

• Margaret Ackerman, Dartmouth College: Parsing Humoral Immunity: Array Technology to Profile Natural Modulation of Antibody Function
• Alexander Dunn, Stanford University: Imaging Mechanical Force Transmission At the Single Molecule Level in Living Cells
• Christina Chan, Michigan State University: Biophysical Mechanism by Which Palmitic Acid Induces IRE1 Signaling and ER Stress