Conference Agenda

WHAT MECHANICAL QUANTITY DO CELLS REGULATE IN SOFT TISSUES?

C. J. Cyron^1,2

¹Hamburg University of Technology, Germany; ²Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany

MODELING AND SIMULATION OF TISSUE GROWTH CAUSED BY CELL PROLIFERATION DURING MORPHOGENESIS

Y. Yokoyama¹, Y. Kameo^1,2, T. Adachi^1,2

¹Department of Micro Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Japan; ²Institute for Life and Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Japan

A HOMOGENIZED CONSTRAINED MIXTURE MODEL FOR HEART VALVE GROWTH AND REMODELING

E. Middendorp^1,2, F. Bräu^3,4, F. P. Baaijens^1,2, J. D. Humphrey⁵, C. J. Cyron^6,7, S. Loerakker^1,2

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands; ²Institute of Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands; ³Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Center, Singapore; ⁴Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore; ⁵Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, USA; ⁶Institute for Continuum and Material Mechanics, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany; ⁷Institute for Material Systems Modeling, Helmholtz-Zentrum, Germany

PARAMETER SENSITIVITY AND OPTIMIZATION OF THE MECHANO-IMMUNO-DRIVEN MODEL OF ENDOGENOUS TISSUE RESTORATION

H. Shirazi¹, T. Vervenne¹, L. Maes¹, A. Hendrickx², B. Meuris², N. Famaey¹

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, KU Leuven, Belgium; ²Experimental Cardiac Surgery, KU Leuven, Belgium

RECONCILING THE MESO- AND MICRO-SCALE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF LUNG TISSUE USING COMPUTATIONAL MODELING

E. Dimbath¹, L. de Castro Brás², S. George², A. Vadati²

¹Duke University, USA; ²East Carolina University, USA