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Title:
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Mechanics of Living Materials: Experimentation, Modeling and Simulation

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Organizers:
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Antonio DiCarlo
SMFM@DiS, Universita` "Roma Tre", Italy
Email: adicarlo@mac.com
Tel: +39-06-5517-6256, Fax: +39-06-5517-6265

Jay D. Humphrey
Texas A&M University, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Email: jhumphrey@tamu.edu
Tel: +1-979-845-5558, Fax: +1-979-845-4450
biomed.tamu.edu/faculty/humphrey/ 

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Minisymposium description:
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With this minisymposium, we aim at collecting evidence on how  computational mechanics
may provide insights into the multifaceted  behavior of biological materials, on scales
ranging from proteins to  organs. Of special interest to us are the mechanisms which
underlie  the active response of living material structures, providing them  with their
peculiar adaptability.

We shall try to gather scientists with a common focus but different  backgrounds, to
foster a lively debate on contributions from??and  challenges posed
to??computational mechanics, more than on  implementation issues. The topics we would
like to deal with include  (but are not necessarily restricted to):

* bulk (interstitial) growth,
* surface (appositional) growth,
* homeostatic control,
* morphogenesis,
* developmental mechanics.