IUTAM School on Biomechanical Modeling at the Molecular, Cellular and Tissue Levels
Invited Lecturers
- Gang Bao (Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332-0535, USA)
6 lectures on: Molecule biomechanics: experimental methods and mathematical models; Biological relevance of mechanical forces; DNA under various loading conditions; Protein mechanics; Motion and deformation of proteins; Mechanics of molecular motors.
- Gerhard A. Holzapfel (Institute for Biomechanics, Graz, Austria)
6 lectures on: Mechanical properties of human arteries; Arterial tissue modelling in health and disease; Vessel wall imaging; Mechanics of angioplasty, mechanobiological effects of stent-artery interaction; Material stability aspects for biological tissues.
- Jay D. Humphrey (Texas A&M University, College Station TX 77843-3120, USA)
6 lectures on: Mechanotransduction in cells; Growth and remodelling applied to aneurysms, stability; Computational modelling; Arterial organ culture studies; Multiscale modelling of arteries.
- Peter Hunter (University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zeland)
6 lectures on: Histological structure of the heart wall; Cardiac electromechanical modelling; Multiscale modelling of organs such as the heart, lung, musculo-skeletal systems, potential applications and perspectives.
- Dao Ming (Massach. Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., USA)
6 lectures on: Cell mechanics: experimental methods and computational models; Force and deformation of single cells and subcellular components; Human red blood cells with optical tweezers; Mechanical response of human cancer cells.
- Raymond W. Ogden (University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Great Britain)
5 lectures on: Anisotropic nonlinear elasticity; Mechanics of growth in soft biological tissue; Residual stresses with applications to arterial wall mechanics.