Events

The third speaker in our EFI seminar was Prof. Anja Bosserhoff, Lehrstuhl für Biochemie und Molekulare Medizin, FAU, Erlangen. She gave an inspiring talk on "Impact of the microenvironment on melanoma development and progression", which ignited valuable discussions highly relevant for our EFI projec...

On October 24, we had our second EFI meeting, where all PIs, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, as well as all students involved in the project joined. The meeting was kindly hosted by Prof. Ben Fabry at the Biophysics group. We had extremely fruitful discussions about the great new results we w...

On July 8, we got together for our first EFI meeting, which was hosted by Prof. Friedrich Paulsen at the Institute of Functional and Clinical Anatomy. In a pleasant ambience, we recapitulated highly promising first results and achievements and the current status of the project. We also took the op...

The second speaker in our EFI seminar was Prof. Jochen Guck, Director and Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Physics of Light, Erlangen. He gave an inspiring talk on "Soft Matters — Mechanosensing of neural cells in the CNS", which ignited promising discussions on future collaborative...

The first speaker in our EFI seminar was Prof. Ellen Kuhl from Stanford University, who is a leading expert in the field of biomechanics and living matter physics. She gave a fascinating talk on "Machine learning in drug development". Abstract: An undesirable side effect of drugs are cardiac ar...

Prof. Ellen Kuhl from Stanford University is visiting the FAU from June 17, 2019, to June  28, 2019. She is a world-leading expert in the computational modeling of living matter physics. During her stay at FAU she is teaching the block course “Introduction to Neuromechanics”, which discusses the ...

At the Soft Tissue Modelling Workshop held from 5th to 7th June 2019 in Glasgow, Prof. Paul Steinmann presented the first results and vision of the EFI project “Novel Biopolymer Hydrogels for Understanding Complex Tissue Biomechanics”. The workshop focused on the most recent advances in the field...

Dipl. Ing. Alina Weizel from the Chair of Microfluidics, University of Rostock, is visiting the FAU to mechanically characterize substitute materials for articular cartilage and to calibrate material parameters for Finite Element simulations through an inverse parameter identification scheme.