Micropatterning in Cell Biology, Part B, Volume 120

Section 1 Micropatterning isolated cell components

1 Mitotic Spindle Assembly on Chromatin Patterns Made with Deep UV Photochemistry
  Katarzyna Tarnawska, Céline Pugieux and François Nédélec
2 Geometrical control of actin assembly and contractility
  Anne-Cécile Reymann, Christophe Guérin, Manuel Théry, Laurent Blanchoin, and Rajaa Boujemaa-Paterski
3 Micropatterning Microtubules
 Didier Portran
4 Micropatterned, Multicomponent Supported  Lipid Bilayers for Cellular Systems
  Debjit Dutta and Lance C. Kam
5 Reconstituting functional microtubule-barrier interactions
  Núria Taberner, Georges Weber, Changjiang You, Roland Dries, Jacob Piehler and Marileen Dogterom

Section 2 Dynamic micro-patterning

6 Polyacrylamide hydrogel micropatterning
  Timothée Vignaud, Hajer Ennomani and Manuel Théry
7 Dynamic Photo-chemical Silane Micro-patterning
  Jun Nakanishi
8 Dynamic Photo-chemical Lipid Micropatterning for Manipulation of Non-adherent Mammalian Cells
  Shinya Yamahira, Yumi Takasaki, Satoshi Yamaguchi, Kimio Sumaru, Toshiyuki Kanamori and Teruyuki Nagamune
9 Thermosensitive micropatterned substrates
  Lionel Bureau and Martial Balland
10 Fabrication of Micropatterned Arrays of Gold Nanoparticles for Photothermal Manipulation  of Living Cells
  Julien Polleux and Guillaume Baffou
11 A reagent-based dynamic trigger for cell adhesion, shape change or cocultures
  Stijn F. M. van Dongen, Paolo Maiuri and Matthieu Piel
12 Cell patterning by micro-pattern projection of UV light through photo-induced enhancement of cell adhesion (PIECA)
 Kimio Sumaru and Toshiyuki Kanamori

Section 3 Micropatterning for specific applications, from forces to yeats

13 Preparing substrates encoding cell patterning and localized intracellular magnetic particle stimulus for high-throughput experimentation
  Peter Tseng and Dino Di Carlo
14 MICROFABRICATED CHAMBERS AS FORCE-SENSORS FOR PROBING FORCES OF FUNGAL GROWTH
  Nicolas Minc
15 Visualizing single rod-shaped fission yeast vertically in micro-sized holes on agarose pad made by soft-lithography
  Li Wang and Phong T. Tran
16 Microfabricated environments to  study collective cell behaviors
  Sri Ram Krishna Vedula, Andrea Ravasio, Ester Anon, Tianchi Chen, Grégoire Peyret, Mohammed Ashraf and Benoit Ladoux

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 nanopatterning
• Chapters are written by experts in the field
• Cutting-edge material

Researchers and students in cell, molecular and developmental biology