Regensburg 2010 – scientific programme

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BP: Fachverband Biologische Physik

BP 32: Posters: Physics of Cells

BP 32.7: Poster

Thursday, March 25, 2010, 17:15–20:00, Poster B1

Living cell interactions with nanostructures — •Felix Keber, Philipp Paulitschke, Eva Weig, and Doris Heinrich — Fakultät für Physik und CeNS, LMU München, Germany

Cellular function is triggered by intracellular signaling cascades on small temporal and spatial scales. One prime example is cell migration, a process which is induced by actin polymerization, and which results in cellular force exertion in three dimensional environments. Cell migration reflects the cellular microarchitecture, as a complex interplay of cellular force exertion by actin polymerization pattern dynamics. We investigate interactions of living cells with top-down-fabricated micro- and nanostructures. Our focus is set on the change in intracellular actin distribution as a reaction to our structured sample.