Conference Agenda

MYOCARDIAL TRABECULAE IN ZEBRAFISH EMBRYOS IMPROVE TISSUE DEFORMABILITY AND REDUCE STRESSES

A. G. Cairelli¹, A. Gendernalik², J. Vermot^1,3, J. Lee⁴, D. Bark Jr.², C. H. Yap¹

¹Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom; ²Department of Pediatrics, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, United States of America; ³Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), Strasbourg, France; ⁴Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, United States of America

A BIOPHYSICALLY DETAILED COMPUTATIONAL MODEL OF THE FOUR CHAMBER HUMAN HEART ELECTROMECHANICS

M. Fedele¹, R. Piersanti¹, F. Regazzoni¹, M. Salvador¹, P. C. Africa¹, M. Bucelli¹, A. Zingaro¹, L. Dede'¹, A. Quarteroni^1,2

¹Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ²École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

REGULATORY MECHANISMS IN CARDIAC ACTIVE MECHANICS: FROM MICROSCALE MODELS TO MULTISCALE NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS

F. Regazzoni¹, A. Quarteroni^1,2

¹MOX - Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy; ²Mathematics Institute, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (Professor Emeritus)

STRAIN-CONTROLLED ENZYMIC COLLAGEN DEGRADATION CAN EXPLAIN THE HEALTHY NATIVE MYOCARDIAL FIBER ORGANIZATION AN IN-SILICO APPROACH

H. Hoursan^1,2, K. Janssens¹, T. Ristori^1,2, C. Bouten^1,2, P. Bovendeerd¹, S. Loerakker^1,2

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; ²Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.

A THERMODYNAMIC FRAMEWORK FOR SARCOMERE EVOLUTION IN CARDIOMYOCYTES SUBJECTED TO DYNAMIC LOADING

R. J. Coleman, P. McGarry

University of Galway, Ireland