Imperial College London
Department of Bioengineering
South Kensington Campus
London, SW7 2AZ, UK
E-mail: r.ethier@imperial.ac.uk
www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/r.ethier
All lectures will be given in English, and lecture notes are provided at the beginning of the Summer School.
C. Ross Ethier
Mechanics of the cell and the cytoskeleton; techniques for cell-scale biomechanical measurements; mechanotransduction; biomechanics of the human eye in health and disease.
Gerhard A. Holzapfel
Graz University of Technology
Institute of Biomechanics
Center of Biomedical Engineering
Kronesgasse 5-I
8010 Graz, Austria
E-mail: holzapfel@tugraz.at
www.biomech.tugraz.at
Institute of Biomechanics
Center of Biomedical Engineering
Kronesgasse 5-I
8010 Graz, Austria
E-mail: holzapfel@tugraz.at
www.biomech.tugraz.at
Fundamental structure and constitutive modeling of arterial walls; residual stresses and their influence on the arterial response; modeling of smooth muscle activation; cerebral aneurysms including growth and remodeling.
Jay D. Humphrey
Texas A&M
Department of Biomedical Engineering
335L Zachry Engineering Center, 3120 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3120, USA
E-mail: jhumphrey@tamu.edu
biomed.tamu.edu/faculty_detail.asp?lname=%27Humphrey%27
Department of Biomedical Engineering
335L Zachry Engineering Center, 3120 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3120, USA
E-mail: jhumphrey@tamu.edu
biomed.tamu.edu/faculty_detail.asp?lname=%27Humphrey%27
Introduction to modeling in biomechanics and mechanobiology; biomechanical response due to elevated stress levels including hypertension; growth, remodeling and adaptation of arterial wall tissue; future directions for research in biomechanics and mechanobiology.
Fred C. MacKintosh
Vrije Universiteit
Department of Physics & Astronomy
De Boelelaan 1081
NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
E-mail: fcm@nat.vu.nl
www.nat.vu.nl/~fcm/index.htm
Department of Physics & Astronomy
De Boelelaan 1081
NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
E-mail: fcm@nat.vu.nl
www.nat.vu.nl/~fcm/index.htm
Fundamentals of elasticity and dynamics of biopolymers and the cytoskeletal networks they form in cells; collective effects of molecular motors in such networks; both experimental results and theoretical approaches will be discussed.
Karol Miller
University of Western Australia
School of Mechanical Engineering
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009, AUSTRALIA
E-mail: kmiller@mech.uwa.edu.au
www.mech.uwa.edu.au/~kmiller/
School of Mechanical Engineering
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009, AUSTRALIA
E-mail: kmiller@mech.uwa.edu.au
www.mech.uwa.edu.au/~kmiller/
Biomechanical modeling of the brain for surgical simulation, image-guided
surgery and analysis of brain structural diseases; patient-specific models and computer simulations; real-time computations using finite element and meshless methods.
Ray W. Ogden
University of Glasgow
Department of Mathematics
University Gardens
Glasgow G12 8QW, UK
E-mail: rwo@maths.gla.ac.uk
www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~rwo/
Department of Mathematics
University Gardens
Glasgow G12 8QW, UK
E-mail: rwo@maths.gla.ac.uk
www.maths.gla.ac.uk/~rwo/
Essential ingredients of continuum mechanics; kinematics, stress and constitutive modeling; elasticity, isotropy, transverse isotropy and orthotropy; application to fibrous tissue including the myocardial tissue.
David Vorp
University of Pittsburgh
McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
100 Technology Drive, Suite 200
Pittsburgh, PA 15219-3110, USA
E-mail: vorpda@upmc.edu
http://www.mirm.pitt.edu/people/bios/Vorp1.asp
McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine
100 Technology Drive, Suite 200
Pittsburgh, PA 15219-3110, USA
E-mail: vorpda@upmc.edu
http://www.mirm.pitt.edu/people/bios/Vorp1.asp
Biomechanics of aortic aneurysms; experimental approaches to determine the mechanobiological properties for aneurysmal tissues; diffusion of nutrients and mass transport through diseased arterial tissue; mechanobiology of stem cells.