Conference Agenda

A THERMODYNAMIC FRAMEWORK FOR SARCOMERE FORMATION IN CARDIOMYOCYTES SPREAD ON MICRO-PATTERNED SUBSTRATES

R. J Coleman, P. McGarry

University of Galway, Ireland

TISSUE SCALE AGENT-BASED MODEL OF THE TENSION-MEDIATED REVERSIBLE FIBROBLAST TO MYOFIBROBLAST TRANSITION

Z. Karagöz, A. Carlier

Maastricht University, the Netherlands

MATRIX STIFFNESS-TGF-Β1 INTERPLAY REGULATES CARDIAC FIBROBLAST CONTRACTILITY

L. Hermans^1,2, A. van der Pol^1,2, V. Conte^1,2, C. Bouten^1,2

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

GUIDING CARDIAC FIBROBLAST ORGANIZATION BY STIFFNESS PATTERNS OF GELMA HYDROGELS

I. Jorba^1,2, S. Gussenhoven¹, B. Groenen¹, A. van der Pol^1,2, M.-J. Goumans³, N. Kurniawan^1,2, C. Bouten^1,2

¹Department of Biomedical Engineering,Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; ²Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS), Eindhoven, The Netherlands; ³Leiden University Medical Centre, Department of Cell and Chemical Biology and Center for Biomedical Genetics, Leiden, The Netherlands

THE EFFECT OF STRAIN ANISOTROPY ON THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN NOTCH SIGNALING AND VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS

C. Karakaya^1,2, E. van den Hurk¹, C. Bouten^1,2, C. Sahlgren^1,2,3, 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; ³Faculty of Science and Engineering, Biosciences, Åbo Akademi University, Finland