Mechanobiology of Cell-Cell and Cell-Matrix Interactions

Part I: The Extracellular Matrix and Tools for Exploring Cell-Matrix Mechanobiology: ECM Overview.- 3D Full-Field Measurement Technique for Large Deformations in Soft Matrices by Fibroblasts.- Magnetic Twisting Cytometry to Probe Adhesion Site Dynamics and the Cytoskeleton.- Probing Cell Mechanics with Light.- Optical Coherence Tomography.- Part II: Mechanisms of Cell Adhesion, Mechanotransduction and Cell Behavior: Nanomechanics of Cell Adhesion: from Single Molecules to Tissues.- Probing Cellular Responses to Substrate Rigidity and Geometry.- Matrix Mechanics and Cell Traction Regulate Integrin-Adhesion Ligand Bond Formation.- Microtubule Deformation and Src Activation.- Integrin Activation and angiogenesis.- Biophysical parameters affecting cell biology.- Part III: Cooperative mechanobiology, cooperative cell Behavior and Mechanics: Modulation of Endothelial Cell-Cell and Cell-Matrix Interactions Using Substrate Chemistry and Mechanics.- Effects of Substrate Chemistry and Mechanics on Large Scale Stem Cell Culture.- Cooperative Behavior of Cells During Wound Healing.- Mechanobiological Functions of Desmosomes and Filament Networks in a Epidermal Keratinocyte Sheet.- Part IV: Mechano-Pathology of Cancer and Disease: Integrin-Cadherin Cross Talk and Cell Motility and Invasiveness.- Cell Mechanics and Disease in Red Blood Cells.- Biophysical Parameters Affecting Cancer/Metastasis.- Cancer Mechanobiology.- Measuring Surface Adhesion of Cancer Cells.- Studying Cancer from a Biomechanics Perspective.