New insights into emergent organizational properties of many biological phenomena can be gained by, and indeed require, mathematical and computational modeling.  Such modeling does not replace analysis at the cellular and molecular levels but complements it.  Mathematical and computational analysis is the best means available for describing and understanding the spatiotemporal behaviors of systems containing many components and operating on multiple scales.  Complex biomedical modeling efforts include predictive multiscale simulations consisting of different submodels at each scale, scalable parallelism for heterogeneous dynamical simulations, a data-rich environment with experimentally determined model parameters, and, finally, distributed multidisciplinary research teams and resources.

The goal of the Workshop is to bring together researchers in biomedical engineering and mathematical and computational biology from the US and UK to discuss recent developments in biomedical modeling and experiments, as well as possible future collaborations.  The two main biomedical topics of the Workshop will be biomechanics, including adaption or response of tissues to mechanical, chemical, or electromagnetic stimuli, and thrombus formation.

Summaries of all Workshop presentations and posters will be compiled into a booklet to be provided to all participants. These will also be made available electronically on the ICSB website.  Participants of the Workshop will be invited to contribute to the special issue of the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (Springer).

Workshop Organizers

Dr. Mark Alber
Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics
Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Biocomplexity
University of Notre Dame

Dr. Philip Maini
Centre for Mathematical Biology
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford

Dr. Glen Niebur
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Tissue Mechanics Laboratory
University of Notre Dame

Confirmed Invited Speakers

Dr. Arezoo Ardekani
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Notre Dame

Dr. C. Ross Ethier
Head of the Department of Bioengineering
Imperial College London

Dr. Aaron Fogelson
Department of Mathematics
University of Utah

Dr. Alain Goriely
Director of the Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford

Dr. Jeremy Gunawardena
Department of Systems Biology
Harvard Medical School

Dr. Roeland Merks
Netherlands Institute for Systems Biology
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

Dr. Alexander Panfilov
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Ghent University

Dr. Jasmina Panovska-Griffiths
Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering
University College London

Dr. Paul Parham
The Grantham Institute for Climate Change
Imperial College London

Dr. Gwendolen Reilly
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
The University of Sheffield

Dr. Chris Rhodes
Department of Infectious Diseases
Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Imperial College London

Dr. Sandra Shefelbine
Department of Bioengineering
Imperial College London

Dr. Nicolas Smith
Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering
King's College London

Dr. Mark Thompson
Department of Engineering Science
University of Oxford

Dr. Philipp Thurner
School of Engineering Sciences
University of Southampton

Dr. Diane Wagner
Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
University of Notre Dame

Dr. Sarah Waters
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford

 

For additional information, please contact: Kassie.Spencer@nd.edu or malber@nd.edu.