CMBBE2012

Topics:

• Orthopaedics systems, implants and design/assessment of medical devices, pre-clinical assessment techniques.
  
• Computational cell and molecular biomechanics, mechanobiology, mechanotransduction, mechanosensing/stimulation, tissue/cell mechanics, cytoskeletal systems and mechanics of membranes/tissues and scaffolds.
  
• Motion and gait analyses, ambulatory capture systems, kinesiology, patient-specific musculoskeletal modelling, simulation-based methods for calculating musculoskeletal forces, integrating modelling/experiments to study clinical problems (osteoarthritis, osteoporosis), human locomotion, work related musculoskeletal injuries and sports biomechanics.
  
• Bone remodeling/regeneration, adaptation of biological tissue, in-silico bone biology and bone mechanobiology, computational biomechanics of morphogenesis and development.
  
• Dental biomechanics, implants, craniofacial reconstruction and surgical simulation, facial imaging techniques and clinical strategies, orthodontics, endodontics.
  
• Joint/spine/hip/knee biomechanics, intervertebral disc models, biomaterials, muscle-ligament interaction and rehabilitation, modelling of tissue damage.
  
• Simulation of joints, joint disorders, failure analyses, functional mechanisms and wear predictions, combined in-vivo/in-vitro computational techniques.
  
• The VPH project www.vph-noe.eu, imaging and visualization, nano-imaging, subject specific models, simulation of near real-time reconstruction in 3D, imaging in robotics, virtual surgery, diagnostics and organ planning, cell imaging and methods to support diagnoses.
  
• Theoretical biomechanics, inverse methods for measuring properties/parameters of biological structures, innovative techniques to determine tissue parameters in-vivo, soft tissue modelling and constitutive laws for biological structures including skin, ligaments, tendons, muscles and organs.
  
• Multiscale modelling in computational biomechanics and complex physiological systems, predictive methods to evaluate local-global cell/biological dynamics.
  
• Cardiovascular biomechanics, biofluids and fluid/structure interaction, virtual stenting, modelling of surgical procedures and cardiovascular access, respiratory and artificial/hybrid organs, haemodynamics, design of microfluid devices, heart electromechanics.
  
• Modelling cell adhesion, spreading and motility, cell life cycles, cellular damage, cell-cell and cell-extracellular biomechanics, cell electroactivity, multiphysics problems in cell biomechanics, modelling diseases at cell scale.
  
• Simulation in ergonomics: applications to quality of life, sport, sleep, models for hand/grip/finger function, footwear biomechanics, contact modelling of the skin-object interface.
  
• Neural IT, brain and spinal cord biomechanics, optogenetics.
  
• Patient specific models — are they worthwhile? Functional outcome simulation after treatment/surgical intervention.
  
• Prediction of efficacy of oncological treatment combining MRI and pharmokinetic modelling, simulation techniques to identify patient response to biomarkers, nanoparticle and targeted systems for cancer therapy.
  
• High performance computing, validation methods and mesh convergence, imaging techniques for tissue structure and characterisation, computational models for translational medicine.
  
• Human Body Impact, Crash Analysis, Forensics and Injury Biomechanics.