Invited Lecturers 2018

Tel Aviv University
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Ramat Aviv 69978
Israel

Keywords:
Mechanobiology and models for wounds and wound healing; mechanics of adipocytes, adipose tissue and mechanobiology of obesity; mechanical modeling of cells; skin-related cell-level modeling; injury biomechanics; biomechanical aetiology of pressure ulcers; human body protection; clinical biomechanics

University of Virginia
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Box 800759
Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA

Keywords:
Heart function; myocardial infarction; myocardial material properties; biaxial mechanical testing; anisotropy; compartmental models; agent-based models; finite-element models; growth and remodeling

Graz University of Technology
Institute of Biomechanics
Stremayrgasse 16/2
8010 Graz, Austria

Keywords:
Introduction to soft tissue biomechanics; arterial wall mechanics; aortic dissection; abdominal aortic aneurysm; second-harmonic generation imaging; modeling of non-symmetric fiber dispersion; discrete fiber dispersion model; failure criteria for arteries; arterial fracture

Stanford University
Department of Mechanical Engineering
440 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-3030, USA

Keywords:
Brain tissue; neurodevelopment/degeneration; neuro- mechanics; neurosurgery; axonal growth; diffuse axonal injury; traumatic brain injury; chronic traumatic ence-phalopathy; craniosynostosis; nanoindentation; elastography; personalized simulations

University of Glasgow
School of Mathematics and Statistics
University Gardens
Glasgow G12 8QW, UK

Keywords:
Essential ingredients of continuum mechanics, with an emphasis on nonlinear elasticity; constitutive modeling of fiber-reinforced materials and fiber dispersion; residual stresses and their influence on material response, with particular reference to arteries

Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Director Johns Hopkins Physical Sciences-Oncology Center
Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Keywords:
Cell mechanics, molecular mechanics, polymer physics, nanorheology, measurement methods for cell properties, atomic force microscopy, particle-tracking microrheology, cancer cells, cell cortex, nucleus, cytoplasm