Publications by Elena Bertseva

Accounting for inertia effects to access the high-frequency microrheology of viscoelastic fluids

László Forró, Sylvia Jeney, Elena Bertseva, Frank Scheffold

We study the Brownian motion of microbeads immersed in water and in a viscoelastic wormlike micelles solution by optical trapping interferometry and diffusing wave spectroscopy. Through the mean-square displacement obtained from both techniques, we deduce ...

Amer Physical Soc2014

Contact Angle at the Leading Edge Controls Cell Protrusion Rate

László Forró, Jean-Jacques Meister, Niccolo Piacentini, Chiara Gabella, Alexander Verkhovskiy, Sylvia Jeney, Elena Bertseva, Alicia Carine Bornert

Plasma membrane tension and the pressure generated by actin polymerization are two antagonistic forces believed to define the protrusion rate at the leading edge of migrating cells [1-5]. Quantitatively, resistance to actin protrusion is a product of membr ...

Elsevier2014

Hydrodynamic and subdiffusive motion of tracers in a viscoelastic medium

László Forró, Sylvia Jeney, Elena Bertseva

We investigate the diffusive motion of micron-sized spherical tracers in a viscoelastic actin filament network over the time span of 8 orders of magnitude using optical-tweezers single-particle tracking. The hydrodynamic interactions of a tracer with the s ...

Amer Physical Soc2013

Optical trapping microrheology in cultured human cells

László Forró, Sylvia Jeney, Elena Bertseva

We present the microrheological study of the two close human epithelial cell lines: non-cancerous HCV29 and cancerous T24. The optical tweezers tracking was applied to extract the several seconds long trajectories of endogenous lipid granules at time step ...

Springer-Verlag2012

Interplay between cytoskeletal forces, membrane tension, and hydrostatic pressure in rapidly migrating cells

Jean-Jacques Meister, Chiara Gabella, Alexander Verkhovskiy, Elena Bertseva

Amer Soc Cell Biology2011

Model-Based Estimation of Three-Dimensional Stiffness Parameters in Photonic-Force Microscopy

Michaël Unser, Andrzej Kulik, Philippe Thévenaz, Elena Bertseva, Amardeep Singh

We propose a system to characterize the 3-D diffusion properties of the probing bead trapped by a photonic-force microscope. We follow a model-based approach, where the model of the dynamics of the bead is given by the Langevin equation. Our procedure comb ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2010

Intracellular nanomanipulation by a photonic-force microscope with real-time acquisition of a 3D stiffness matrix

Michaël Unser, László Forró, Giovanni Dietler, Andrzej Kulik, Philippe Thévenaz, Elena Bertseva, Gérard Gremaud, Sylvia Jeney, Stefania Puttini, Amardeep Singh

A traditional photonic-force microscope (PFM) results in huge sets of data, which requires tedious numerical analysis. In this paper, we propose instead an analog signal processor to attain real-time capabilities while retaining the richness of the traditi ...

Institute of Physics2009