Biomechanics Day 2009

Micro-biomechanics: Thinking Big & Measuring Small

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Singleton Room, Roberts Hall 401, Carnegie Mellon (map)

Molecular Biomechanics

Michael Grabe, PITT Biology

The biomechanics of helix bending

Sanford Leuba, PITT Cell Biology and Physiology

Protein/DNA interactions: one-at-a-time

Ivan Maly, PITT Computational Biology

How T-killer cells deliver the kiss of death: molecular forces in the cellular context

Kris Dahl, CMU Biomedical Engineering

Multiscale mechanics of the nucleus

Maumita Mandal, CMU Chemistry

Studying nucleic-acid based motors by unzipping one molecule at a time

Cellular Biomechanics

Ge Yang, CMU Biomedical Engineering

Mechanics of axonal cargo transport

Russell Schwartz, CMU Biology

Coupling cytoskeletal assembly to mechanical stimulation with coarse-grained computer models

Yu-Li Wang, CMU Biomedical Engineering

Mechanical interactions for cell migration and regulation

James H-C Wang, Orthopaedic Surgery and Bioengineering, PITT

Tendon and ligament stem cell biology

Philip Leduc, CMU Mechanical Engineering

Exploring cellular mechanics using micro- and nano-technology

Tissue Biomechanics

David Swigon, PITT Math

Elastic continuum model of epithelial layer migration

Lance Davidson, PITT Bioengineering

Multi-scale mechanics of tissue shape change during morphogenesis

Jonathan Minden, CMU Bio

Analysis of tissue folding using Drosophila ventral furrow morphogenesis as a model

Beth Roman, PITT Bio

Alk1 regulates arterial caliber in response to blood flow

Cardiovascular Biomechanics

Michael Sacks, PITT Bioengineering

Multi-scale biomechanics of heart valves

Ender Finol, CMU Biomedical Engineering

Towards an individualized assessment of AAA biomechanics

David Vorp, PITT Surgery and Bioengineering

Biomechanics of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm

James Antaki, CMU Biomedical Engineering

Multi-scale modeling of thrombosis in artificial circulation

Kerem Pekkan, CMU Biomedical Engineering

Hemodynamics of transitionary and stable aortic arch configurations in the chick embryo

Ideas for Biomechanics Day 2010

- Movement and biomechanics: molecular motors through macrokinesiology

- Technologies for molecular and cell biomechanics - fluidics and fabrication

- Computational approaches for molecular and cellular mechanics

- Stem cell biomechanics

For more information about Biomechanics Day:

Contact Kris Noel Dahl, kndahl@andrew.cmu.edu or 412-268-9609

Organized by:

Kris Noel Dahl, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

Lance Davidson, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh

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