IUTAM Symposium on Cellular Molecular and Tissue Mechanics

Part I Tissue mechanics: Experimental and computational investigation of viscoelasticity of native and engineered ligament and tendon by J. Ma H. Narayanan K. Garikipati K. Grosh and E. M. Armda; A comparison of a nonlinear and quasilinear viscoelastic anisotropic model for fibrous tissues by T. D. Nguyen; Hysteretic behavior of ligaments and tendons: microstructural analysis of damage softening and non-recoverable strain by P. Ciarletta and M. Ben Amar; On measuring stress distributions in epithelia by V. D. Varner and L. A. Taber; A viscoelastic anisotropic model for soft collagenous tissues based on distributed fiber-matrix units by A. E. Ehret M. Itskov and G. Weinhold; Part II Cell-substrate interactions: Chemical and mechanical micro-diversity of the extracellular matrix by T. Volberg J. Ulmer J. Spatz and B. Geiger; Tissue-to-cellular deformation coupling in cell-microintegrated elastomeric scaffolds by J. A. Stella J. Liao Y. Hong W. D. Merryman W. R. Wagner and M. S.Sacks; Orientational polarizability and stress response of biological cells by S. A. Safran R. De and A. Zemel; Universal temporal response of fibroblasts adhering on cyclically stretched substrates by S. Jungbauer B. Aragiies J. P. Spatz and R. Kernkemer; Part III Mechanics of DNA: Elastic and electrostatic model for DNA in rotation-extension experiments by S. Neukirch N. Clauvelin and B. Audoly; Shape and energetics of DNA plectonemes by P. K. Purohit; Part IV Mechanics of biopolymer networks: Constitutive models for the force-extension behavior of biological filaments by J. S. Palmer C. E. Castro M. Arslan and M. C. Boyce; Small strain topological effetcs of biopolymer networks with rigid cross-links by G. Zagar P. R. Onck and E. Van der Giessen; Part V Cell adhesion: An observation on Bells model for molecular bond separation under force by L. B. Freund; A theoretical study of the thermodynamicsand kinetics of focal adhesion dynamics by J. E. Olberding M. D. Thouless E. M. Armda and K. Garikipati; Tension-induced growth of focal adhesions at cell-substrate interface by J. Qian J. Wang and H. Gao; Pattern formation and force generation by cell ensembles in a filamentous matrix by R. Paul and U. S. Schwarz; Mechano-chemical coupling in shell adhesion by R. M. Springman and J. L. Bassani; Catch-to-slip bond transition in biological bonds by entropic and energetic elasticity by Y. Wei; Part VI Growth: Dilation and hypertrophy: A cell-based continuum mechanics approach towards ventricular growth and remodeling by J. Ulerich S. Goktepe and E. Kuhl; A morpho-elastic model of hyphal tip growth in filamentous organisms by A. Goriely M. Tabor and A. Tongen; Extracellular control of limb regeneration by S. Calve and H-G. Simon; Part VII Poroelasticity of bone: Bone composite mechanics related to collagen hydration state by M. L. Oyen and M. Galli