Nuclear Mechanics and Genome Regulation

<p>Section-A: Cell Nucleus: Organization and MechanoBiology</p> <ol> <p> <li>Fluorescence Fluctuation Microscopy to reveal 3D-Architecture and Function in the Cell Nucleus</li> <p>Thorsten Lenser<SUP>1,2</SUP>, Klaus Weisshart<SUP>2</SUP><SUB>,</SUB> Tobias Ulbricht<SUP>3</SUP>, Karolin Klement<SUP>3</SUP>, and Peter Hemmerich</p> <p> <li>Studying histone modifications and their genomic functions by employing chromatin immunoprecipitation and immunoblotting</li> <p>Ranveer S. Jayani, Praveena L. Ramanujam and Sanjeev Galande</p> <p> <li>Dynamic organization of chromatin assembly & transcription factories in living cells</li> <p>Bidisha Sinha, <SUP></SUP>Dipanjan Bhattacharya, Deepak Kumar Sinha, Shefali Talwar, </p> <p>Shovamayee Maharana, Soumya Gupta<SUP> </SUP>and G. V.Shivashankar</p> <p> <li>Manipulation & Isolation of Single Cells & Nuclei</li> <p>Swee Jin Tan, Qingsen Li and Chwee Teck Lim</p> <p> <li>Beyond lamins: other structural components of the nucleoskeleton</li> <p>Zhixia Zhong , Katherine L. Wilson and Kris Noel Dahl</p> <p> <li>Altered mechanical properties of the nucleus in disease</li> <p>Maria Lucia Lombardi and Jan Lammerding</p> <p> <li>Theoretical concepts and models of cellular mechanosensing</li> <p>Rumi De, Assaf Zemel and Samuel A. Safran</p> <p>Section-B: Impact of Nuclear Mechanics on Function</p> <p> <li>Mechanical Induction of Gene Expression in Connective Tissue Cells</li> <p>Mathew Chan, Boris Hinz, Christopher A. McCulloch</p> <p> <li>Physical plasticity of the Nucleus and its manipulation</li> <p>Irena Ivanovska, Joe Swift, Takamasa Harada, J. David Pajerowski and Dennis E. Discher</p> <p> <li>Prestressed Nuclear Organization in Living Cells</li> <p>Aprotim Mazumder,<SUP> </SUP>Roopa T. , Abhishek Kumar, K.Venkatesan Iyer, </p> <p>Nisha M Ramdas and G. V.Shivashankar</p> <p> <li>Nanotopography/mechanical induction of stem-cell differentiation</li> <p>Evelyn Yim</p> <p> <li>Mechanical Induction in Embryonic Development and Tumour Growth: Integrative Cues through Molecular to Multi-cellular Interplay, and Evolutionary Perspectives</li> <p>Maria-Elena Fernandez-Sanchez, Fanny Serman, Padra Ahmadi and Emmanuel Farge</p> <p> <li>Informatics based analysis of mechanosignaling in the laminopathies</li> <p>Frank P.L. Lai, Radfidah A. Mutalif, Siew Cheng Phua, and Colin L. Stewart</p> <p> <li>Autosomal Dominant Leukodystrophy caused by lamin B1 duplications: A clinical and molecular case study of altered nuclear function and disease</li> </ol> <p>Quasar Saleem Padiath and Ying-Hui Fu</p>