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Frank P.T. BaaijensEindhoven University of Technology Mechanics and tissue engineering of heart valves; collagen mechanics, remodelling, synthesis and degradation; actin cytoskeleton; muscle damage etiology – computation |
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Alain GorielyUniversity of Oxford Topology, geometry and mechanics of biofilaments – applications to macromolecules, plants and neurons; modeling growth with applications to plants, bones, neurons, tissues and tumours; morphogenesis and stability of soft tissues |
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Gerhard A. HolzapfelGraz University of Technology Structure and function of artery walls in health and disease; mechanics, mechanobiology, and modeling of abdominal aortas and aneurysms; multi-scale modeling of biopolymer networks; modeling of smooth muscle activation |
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Ellen KuhlStanford University Electrophysiology – from action potentials to electro-cardiograms, electromechanics – from actin-myosin sliding to cardiac output and related FE models; electrochemistry: from channelrhodopsin to pacing hearts with light, acute and chronic cardiac disease; dynamics of the mitral valve |
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Chwee Teck LimNational University of Singapore Mechanical models for living cells; experimental techniques for cell and molecular mechanics; human disease biomechanics, focus on malaria and on cancer; cell migration studies in 2D and 3D |
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Ray W. OgdenUniversity of Aberdeen Elements of continuum mechanics; mechanics of a biopolymer filament; constitutive modelling of the myocardium; residual stresses with applications to arterial modelling; notions of stability |
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Kevin K. ParkerHarvard University Mechanics of the developing heart; mechanics of the cardiac cycle; cell/tissue mechanics of the cardiac myocyte including background on how a cell builds itself; from cell to tissue mechanics in the diseased heart |