Biomechanical Imaging: from Nano to Macro
The Third Switzerland-Japan Workshop on Biomechanics 2009 (SJB 2009) aims to bring together actively participating scientists in the biomechanical communities of Japan and Switzerland for academic discussion and intercultural exchange. SJB 2009 will focus on biomechanical imaging at all hierarchical levels, beginning at sub-cellular dimensions up to the whole organ. Our vision is to strengthen the relationship between the biomechanics and bioimaging communities for future advancement in the life sciences. In this spirit, the scientific motivation for this workshop is to give an overview of recent progress in the quantitative description, modeling and simulation of biomechanical processes driven by novel bioimaging approaches. Although the focus will be on biomechanical imaging, other areas of biomechanics exploring the different hierarchies from nano to macro will also be considered and featured in special sessions.
Co-Chairs
| Prof. Ralph Müller | (ETH Zürich) |
| Prof. Masao Tanaka | (Osaka University) |
Contact
Email: sjb2009@ethz.ch
The Swiss-Japanese cooperation on biomechanics originates from the close personal relationship between Profs. Jean-Jacques Meister (EPFL, Switzerland) and Kozaburo Hayashi (Osaka University, Japan). They have been exchanging scientific information for a long time as their laboratories have common biomechanical research subjects. Within this framework, they performed a three-year joint research project between 1996 and 1999 with the financial support of the Monbusho International Scientific Research Program from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Japan. During this program, faculty members and graduate students in both laboratories often visited their counter laboratories for joint studies on the functional adaptation and remodeling of biological tissues, and on cellular mechanics. Within connection, they organized the SJB "New Directions in Cellular and Tissue Engineering" held in Les Diablerets in September 2001 (co-organizers Profs. Jean-Jacques Meister and Kozaburo Hayashi), which was continued by the Second JSB on Biomechanics on "New Trends in Biomechanics: from Biomolecule to Tissue" held in Kyoto in September 2005 (co-organizers Profs. Masaaki Sato at Tohoku University, Japan and Nikolaos Stergiopulos at EPFL, Switzerland).
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