Elucidation of the Spatial Pdgf Gradient Sensing Mechanism in Fibroblast Chemotaxis Ian Schneider and Jason Haugh, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7905 |
Gradients of Matrix-Bound Morphogens Created by Cells in 3d Dynamic Environments Mark E. Fleury, Integrated Biosciences Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Bat AAB231 Station 15, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland, Cara-Lynn E. Helm, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Rd, Evanston, IL 60208 and Melody A. Swartz, Integrative Biosciences Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Bat AAB231 Station 15, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland |
Micropatterned Surfaces for Controlling Cell Adhesion and Rolling Divya D. Nalayanda, University of Oklahoma, 100 East Boyd, Norman, OK 73019 and David W. Schmidtke, School of Chemical, Biological and Materials Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 100 E. Boyd, Room T335, Norman, OK 73019 |
Modulating Nuclear Receptors to Regulate Lipid and Glucose Homeostasis for Hepatic Functions in Lean and Fatty Hepatocytes Cultures Deepak Nagrath, Vanessa Lopez, Francois Berthiaume and Martin Yarmush, Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital/Shriners Burn Hospital/Harvard Medical School, 51 Blossom Street, Boston, MA 02114 |
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Global Intertrimer Cooperativity of Influenza Hemagglutinin Conformational Change Jeong H. Lee1, Mark D. Goulian2 and Eric T. Boder1, (1)Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 220 South 33rd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, (2)Physics, University of Pennsylvania, 209 South 33rd Street,, Philadelphia, PA 19104 |
Cell-Specific and Ligand-Specific Parameters Affect Ligand Efficacy in a Kinetic Model of G Protein Coupled Receptor Signaling Tamara L. Kinzer-Ursem and Jennifer J. Linderman, Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2136 |
Computational, Genetic, and Biochemical Analysis of Egfr Control by Multiple Feedback Loops Gregory T. Reeves1, Rachel Kalifa1, Daryl E. Klein2, Diego Alvarado2, Joseph B. Duffy3, Mark A. Lemmon2 and Stas Shvartsman1, (1)Department of Chemical Engineering and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, (2)Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 809C Stellar-Chance Laboratories, 422 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6059, (3)Department of Biology, Indiana University, 1001 East Third Street, Bloomington, IN 47405 |