Micropatterning in Cell Biology, Part B

This new volume of Methods in Cell Biology is the second volume describing micropatterning, complementing Volume 120. Chapters are written by experts in the field and include cutting-edge material.

Includes sections on micropatterning in 2D with photomask, maskless micropatterning and 2D nanopatterningChapters are written by experts in the fieldCutting-edge material

Section 1 Micropatterning isolated cell components 1 Mitotic Spindle Assembly on Chromatin Patterns Made with Deep UV Photochemistry 2 Geometrical control of actin assembly and contractility 3 Micropatterning Microtubules 4 Micropatterned, Multicomponent Supported Lipid Bilayers for Cellular Systems 5 Reconstituting Functional Microtubule-Barrier Interactions

Section 2 Dynamic micro-patterning 6 Polyacrylamide Hydrogel Micropatterning 7 Dynamic Photo-chemical Silane Micro-patterning 8 Dynamic Photo-chemical Lipid Micropatterning for Manipulation of Non-adherent Mammalian Cells 9 Thermosensitive Micropatterned Substrates 10 Fabrication of Micropatterned Arrays of Gold Nanoparticles for Photothermal Manipulation of Living Cells 11 A Reagent-based Dynamic Trigger for Cell Adhesion, Shape Change or Cocultures 12 Cell Patterning by Micro-pattern Projection of UV Light Through Photo-induced Enhancement of Cell Adhesion (PIECA)

Section 3 Micropatterning for specific applications, from forces to yeasts 13 Preparing Substrates Encoding Cell Patterning and Localized Intracellular Magnetic Particle Stimulus for High-throughput Experimentation 14 Microfabricated Chambers as Force-Sensors for Probing Forces of Fungal Growth 15 Visualizing Single Rod-shaped Fission Yeast Vertically in Micro-sized Holes on Agarose Pad Made by Soft-lithography 16 Microfabricated Environments to Study Collective Cell Behaviors