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Glenn S. Edwards

Professor Emeritus of Physics
Physics
Box 90305, Durham, NC 27708-0305
French Family Science Center, 2314, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Biomechanical mechanism for the inward force that drives ventral furrow formation: basal-to-apical myosin repolarization triggers Euler buckling of tissue within a central band of the presumptive mesoderm · October 1, 2013 Lecture Biomechanics of Drosophila Workshop, 23rd European Drosophila Conference (Barcelona)
Biophysics research and its application to the life sciences · December 16, 2012 Lecture Curie Institute, Paris
Molecular force production, cell-shape changes, and tissue patterning during Drosophila development · December 16, 2012 Lecture Cell Dynamics Symposium (College Park, Maryland)
Dorsal closure in three-dimensions: turgor pressure and zipping · December 16, 2012 Lecture Duke Fly Club (Durham, October 2012).
Consequences of ‘Life at low Reynolds number’ for the biophysical investigation of polymer dynamics and tissue patterning in developmental biology · October 1, 2011 Lecture Sixth Annual Conference on the Physics, Chemistry and Biology of Water (Mt. Snow, Vermont)
The Golden Hour (plus some) · August 1, 2011 Lecture Dynamics of Development, Mini-Program at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (Santa Barbara)
Dynamics of dorsal closure during Drosophila morphogenesis · August 1, 2011 Lecture Dynamics of Development, Mini-Program at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (Santa Barbara)
Tissue ablation with pulsed, infrared lasers: protein and water dynamics underlying surgical applications · July 1, 2011 Lecture Duke TIP Program (Durham)
Potential biological applications of THz/IR · April 1, 2011 Lecture THz/IR Workshop on Molecular and Materials Sciences (Arlington, Virginia)
Biophysical investigations of tissue dynamics during early development in Drosophila · March 1, 2011 Lecture National Science Foundation (Arlington, Virginia)
Early embryonic patterning in Drosophila · December 17, 2010 Lecture Joint physical chemistry and developmental biology seminar, Curie Institute (Paris)
Tissue ablation with pulsed, infrared lasers: protein and water dynamics underlying the human surgical applications · December 17, 2010 Lecture Department of Physics, Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris)
Tissue mechanics: biophysical investigation of Drosophila morphogenesis · December 17, 2010 Lecture Institute for Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, University of Nice, Sophia-Antipolis Parc Valrose (Nice)
Tissue biomechanics: biophysical investigations of patterned development and mechano-transduction in developmental biology · December 17, 2010 Lecture Fondation Pierre-Gilles DeGennes Lecturer, Rencontres Montagne Sainte-Genevieve (Paris)
Tissue dynamics: open research questions · December 17, 2010 Lecture Mathematical Modeling and Biomechanics of Wound Healing and Morphogenesis (Nice)
Dynamics of early morphogenesis in Drosophila embryos, · December 17, 2010 Lecture Scientific retreat of the Physics and Chemistry Division, Curie Institute (Oleron, France)
Regulation of the biomechanical dynamics of tissue during dorsal closure in Drosophilia · November 1, 2009 Lecture Curie Institute (Paris)
Development of Infrared Laser Technology for Human Surgical Applications · May 1, 2009 Lecture Seminar presented to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Washington, D.C.)
(Infrared Laser) Tissue Ablation · March 1, 2009 Lecture Seminar presented at Medtronic (Memphis)
Surgery with pulsed, infrared lasers: applications, mechanisms, and technology · January 1, 2009 Lecture Joint Condensed Matter/Biological Physics seminar, Carnegie Mellon University
Biophysical investigation of dorsal closure during Drosophila embryogenesis · January 1, 2009 Lecture Presented to the Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh
Biophysical investigation of tissue dynamics: dorsal closure during Drosophila embryogenesis as a model system · December 7, 2008 Lecture Department of Physics, Harvard University
Two research results: pressure effects in Mark-III FEL tissue ablation and the apoptotic force in Drosophila embryogenesis · December 7, 2008 Lecture W.M. Keck FEL Center, Vanderbilt University (Nashville)
Biophysical investigation of tissue dynamics: dorsal closure during Drosophila embryogenesis · December 7, 2008 Lecture CNRS Institute of Developmental Biology (Marseille)
Dorsal closure during Drosophila embryogenesis: Biophysical investigation of tissue dynamics and integrative control · December 7, 2008 Lecture Curie Institute (Paris)
Geometric regulation of tissue dynamics during Drosophila morphogenesis · December 7, 2008 Lecture Carolina Biophysics Symposium (Chapel Hill)
Dorsal closure during Drosophila development: a model system for biophysical investigations of tissue dynamics · December 7, 2008 Lecture Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, UK
Drosophila morphogenesis: tissue dynamics and emergent properties during dorsal closure · December 7, 2008 Lecture Workshop on the Organization of Biological Networks, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota
Pressure (mechanical) effects in infrared tissue ablation · July 1, 2008 Lecture Biomedical Optics Symposium, SPIE (San Jose, CA)

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Unknown - NASA Astrobiology Institute, Director’s Discretionary Fund(Proposal Review) · December 16, 2012 Other Other Service to the Community
Reviewer - Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (UK) · December 16, 2011 Other Other Service to the Community
Reviewer - Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) · December 16, 2011 Other Other Service to the Community

Service to the Profession


Panel member : NSF Grant Proposals · October 2013 Committee Service
PLoS Computational Biology · December 16, 2012 Editorial Activities
Developmental Cell · 2012 Editorial Activities
Reviewer : PLoS One · December 16, 2011 - December 16, 2012 Editorial Activities
Reviewer : Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2011 Editorial Activities
French National Research Agency, Blue Sky Program (proposal reviews) · December 17, 2010 Editorial Activities
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia (proposal reviews) · December 17, 2010 Editorial Activities
Department of Energy, proposal reviews · December 17, 2010 Editorial Activities
PLoS One · December 17, 2010 Editorial Activities
European Research Council (proposal reviews) · 2010 Editorial Activities
Lasers in Engineering · December 16, 2009 Editorial Activities
Session Chair, Session entitled Mechanics in Morphogenesis : EMBO Conference Series on Morphogenesis and Dynamics of Multicellular Systems · October 2009 Editorial Activities Heidelberg
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine · 2009 Editorial Activities
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA · 2009 Editorial Activities
National Science Foundation (proposal reviews) · 2009 - 2010 Editorial Activities
Israel Science Foundation (proposal reviews) · 2009 Editorial Activities
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA · September 2008 - December 7, 2008 Editorial Activities