Biophysical Society Bulletin | April 2018

Communities Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting

The Heart by Numbers: Integrating Theory, Computation and Experiment to Advance Cardiology

September 4–7, 2018 | Berlin, Germany Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Martin Falcke , Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany

The focus on mathematical and biophysical models coupled with experiments sets this meeting apart from cardiological and biological meetings. The meet- ing will be highly interdisciplinary with contributions from medicine, biology, physics, bioengineering, and mathematics. Specifically, topics will include: • Cell level: modelling of excitation contraction coupling, sarcomere models, metabolic modelling, ROS signalling, spatially resolved models and subcellular structures; • Hemodynamics: flow in atria and ventricles, aortic flow, valve stenosis replacement, stenting; • Organ level: electrophysiology, mechanics, total heart function, personalization; • Modelling diseases: arrhythmia, antitachypacing and defibrillation, Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy.

Gernot Plank , Medical University of Graz, Austria Zhilin Qu , University of California, Los Angeles, USA Karin Sipido , University of Leuven, Belgium James Weiss , University of California, Los Angeles, USA SPEAKERS Daniel Beard , University of Michigan, USA Donald Bers , University of California, Davis, USA Martin Bishop , King’s College London, United Kingdom Elizabeth Cherry , Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Colleen Clancy , University of California, Davis, USA

Pieter de Tombe , Loyola University Chicago, USA Emilia Entcheva , George Washington University, USA Julia Gorelik , Imperial College London, United Kingdom Michael Gotthardt , Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany Adam Hill , Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia Jonathan Lederer , University of Maryland, USA Stefan Luther , Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany Molly Maleckar , Allen Institute, USA Andrew McCulloch , University of California, San Diego, USA Martyn Nash , University of Auckland, New Zealand Steven Niederer , King’s College London, United Kingdom Brian O’Rourke , Johns Hopkins University, USA Daniela Panakova , Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany Sasha Panfilov , Gent University, Belgium Yohannes Shiferaw , California State University, Northridge, USA

Thank you to our sponsors:

Christian Soeller , University of Exeter, United Kingdom Natalia Trayanova , Johns Hopkins University, USA Isabelle van Gelder , University of Groningen, Netherlands Edward Vigmond , University of Bordeaux, France Alexandra Zahradnikova , SlovakAcademy of Sciences, Slovakia

Abstract Submission Deadline: May 7, 2018

Early Registration Deadline: June 4, 2018

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