Conference Agenda

MULTISCALE MODELING OF VASCULAR ADAPTATION PROCESSES: ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES

C. Chiastra

Politecnico di Torino, Italy

ROLE OF ANGIOTENSIN 1B RECEPTORS IN INDUCING REGIONAL DISPARITIES IN HYPERTENSIVE AORTIC REMODELING

C. Cavinato^1,2, A. W. Caulk¹, B. Spronck^1,3, S.-I. Murtada¹, J. D. Humphrey^1,4

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA; ²LMGC, University of Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France; ³Department of Biomedical Engineering, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands; ⁴Vascular Biology and Therapeutics Program, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

LOAD-INDUCED MICROSTRUCTURAL CHANGES OF COLLAGEN AND ELASTIN FIBERS IN THE HUMAN AORTIC WALL ARE LAYER-SPECIFIC

A. Pukaluk¹, H. Wolinski^2,3, C. Viertler⁴, P. Regitnig⁴, G. A. Holzapfel^1,5, G. Sommer¹

¹Institute of Biomechanics, Graz University of Technology, Austria; ²Institute of Molecular Biosciences, University of Graz, Austria; ³Field of Excellence BioHealth – University of Graz, Austria; ⁴Diagnostic and Research Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Graz, Austria; ⁵Department of Structural Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

MULTISCALE COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF NOTCH SIGNALING IN MECHANO-REGULATED GROWTH AND REMODELING

J. van Asten¹, T. Ristori¹, F. Baaijens¹, C. Sahlgren^1,2, J. Humphrey³, S. Loerakker¹

¹Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands; ²Åbo Akademi, Finland; ³Yale University, Unites States

IN SILICO MODELLING OF THE MULTISCALE AND CHEMO-MECHANO-BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS BEHIND VASCULAR TONE ADAPTATION

M. Marino¹, B. Sauty^1,2

¹University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy; ²Mines Saint Etienne, France