Biomechanical Design of Nanotechnological Devices for Health Care - POSTPONED
Invited Lecturers
- Paolo Decuzzi (The Univ. of Magna Graecia CZ, Italy and The Univ. of Texas Health Science Center at Houston)
- 6 lectures on: modeling the dynamics of micro/nano-cantilever beams; modeling the transport, adhesive and endocytosis dynamics of particulate-based systems for the systemic delivery of drugs and bio-imaging contrast agents.
- Mauro Ferrari (The University of Texas, Health Science Center at Houston, TX, USA )
- 5 lectures on: the growing field of Nanomedicine; and the theoretical design and experimental development of micro-chips for biological analysis and nanochannel-based filters for the systemic delivery of drugs from implants.
- Harald Fuchs (University of Münster, Germany )
- 6 lectures on: the use of micro- and nano-cantilevers for sensing forces at the molecular scale; for the inspection of soft nanostructures consisting of organic or biological molecules, Dip Pen Lithography, self organized organic layers and templates.
- Milos Kojic (Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA)
- 6 lectures on: computational methods in solid and fluid mechanics with emphasis on modeling blood flow in microvessels and particle transport, including finite element (FE) method, element free Galerkin (EFG) method, smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) and dissipative particle dynamics (DPD) mesoscale method.
- John Ryan (Oxford University, UK )
- 6 lectures on: biomolecular systems and machines, from the single molecule level up to complex molecular machines, integrating "top-down" nanoscale lithography with "bottom-up" biomolecular assembly.
- Viola Vogel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
- 6 lectures on: how cells can sense and transduce a broad range of mechanical forces into distinct sets of biochemical signals that ultimately regulate cellular processes, including adhesion, proliferation, differentiation, and apoptosis.