Program
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Sunday, August 28, 2011
| 04:00 | - Registration, Sheraton Hotel Palo Alto |
| 06:30 | - Welcome Reception, Sheraton Hotel Palo Alto |
Monday, August 29, 2011
Morning Session 01 - Keynote Lecture
| 09:00 | - Opening Remarks |
| 09:15 | - Larry Taber - Modeling Morphodynamics |
Coffee Break
Morning Session 02 - The Cardiovascular System
| 10:30 | - Jessica Coogan - Coronary and Cerebral Arterial Remodeling |
| 11:00 | - Jeffrey Holmes - Multiscale Modeling of Infarct Healing |
| 11:30 | - Michael Sacks - Constitutive Models for Native and Engineered Valvular Tissues |
| 12:00 | - Paul Watton - Patient Specific Modeling of Cerebral Aneurysm Evolution |
Lunch
Afternoon Session 01 - Cells and Viruses I
| 02:00 | - William Klug - Martensitic Phase Transitions in Viral Shells |
| 02:30 | - Patrick Onck - A Coarse-Grained Model for the Nuclear Pore Complex |
| 03:00 | - Ellen Kuhl - Computational Optogenetics - Turning Light into Force |
Coffee Break
Afternoon Session 02 - Soft Tissues
| 04:00 | - Ellen Arruda - Native and Tissue-Engineered Anterior Cruciate Ligaments |
| 04:30 | - Edoardo Mazza - Experimental Characterization of Soft Human Tissue |
| 05:00 | - Peter Pinsky - Collagen-Proteoglycan Structural Interactions in the Corneal Stroma |
| 05:30 | - Wolfgang Wall - Bridging Scales in Respiratory Biomechanics |
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Morning Session 01 - Keynote Lecture
| 09:15 | - Peter Hunter - The Physiome Project |
Coffee Break
Morning Session 02 - Growth and Remodeling
| 10:30 | - Stephen Cowin - Mixture Theory-Based Poroelasticity for Interstitial Tissue Growth |
| 11:00 | - Jay Humphrey - Modeling Arterial Growth and Remodeling |
| 11:30 | - David Vorp - Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of ATAA |
| 12:00 | - Ralph Müller - Local Bone Formation and Resorption |
Lunch
Afternoon Session 01 - Keynote Lecture
| 02:00 | - Kit Parker - In Vitro Models of Vascular and Axonal Injury in Traumatic Brain Injury |
Afternoon Session 02 - Soft Tissues & Muscle
| 03:00 | - Gerhard Holzapfel - Distributed Collagen Fiber Orientations and Active Tone in Arteries |
| 03:30 | - Markus Böl - Coupled Finite Element Modeling of Smooth Muscle Contraction |
| 04:00 | - Jonas Stalhand - Modelling of Smooth Muscle Activation |
Poster Session & Coffee
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Morning Session 01 - Keynote Lecture
| 09:15 | - Ajit Yoganathan - Patient-Specific Surgical Planning for the Fontan Procedure |
Coffee Break
Morning Session 02 - Excitation Contraction
| 10:30 | - Davide Ambrosi - Electromechanical Coupling in Cardiac Dynamics |
| 11:00 | - Marko Vendelin - Incorporating Cooperativity into Huxley-Type Cross-Bridge Models |
| 11:30 | - Serdar Göktepe - Kinematic Approaches to Electromechanics of the Heart |
| 12:00 | - Michael Sheetz - Cellular Mechanosensing: Stretching Again and Again |
Lunch
Excursion & Wine Tasting - Fogarty's Winery
Conference Dinner
Thursday, September 01, 2011
Morning Session 01 - Keynote Lecture
| 09:15 | - Peter Fratzl - Managing Loads by Hierarchical Structure |
Coffee Break
Morning Session 02 - Porous Media
| 10:30 | - Gerard Ateshian - Solute Transport in Hydrated Biological Tissues |
| 11:00 | - Wolfgang Ehlers - Tumor Therapies of Multiphasic Brain Tissue |
| 11:30 | - Jaques Huyghe - Multiscale Modelling of Intervertebral Disc Tearing |
| 12:00 | - Yiannis Ventikos - Multicompartmental Poroelasticity for Perfused Tissue |
Lunch
Afternoon Session 01 - Cells and Viruses II
| 02:00 | - Krishna Garikipati - Hierarchical Models of Cancer Cell Motility and Locomotion |
| 02:30 | - Mohammad Mofrad - Cellular Mechanobiology: From Focal Adhesions to Nuclear Pores |
| 03:00 | - Robert McMeeking - The Mechanics of the Cytoskeleton and Cell Adhesions |
| 03:30 | - Closing Remarks |