Conference Description
The Biomechanics in Vascular Biology and Disease GRC is a premier, international scientific conference focused on advancing the frontiers of science through the presentation of cutting-edge and unpublished research, prioritizing time for discussion after each talk and fostering informal interactions among scientists of all career stages. The conference program includes a diverse range of speakers and discussion leaders from institutions and organizations worldwide, concentrating on the latest developments in the field. The conference is five days long and held in a remote location to increase the sense of camaraderie and create scientific communities, with lasting collaborations and friendships. In addition to premier talks, the conference has designated time for poster sessions from individuals of all career stages, and afternoon free time and communal meals allow for informal networking opportunities with leaders in the field.
This GRC will bring together engineers, biologists, and clinicians who study biomechanics in cardiovascular biology and disease. This GRC meeting will significantly broaden and consolidate smaller scale symposium activities in Biomechanics and Cardiovascular Disease that our biomechanics community has held in Europe and North America since 2005. Leaders and diverse groups representing women and underrepresented investigators, from trainees to young and established faculty members, will have opportunities to present and network at the Meeting. Speakers for the Early-Career Investigators Session will be selected from submitted abstracts. In addition, poster sessions will be led by the leaders to feature “Meet the Young Investigators” to facilitate networking. To promote inclusion and diversity and to address the challenges facing women and underrepresented groups in STEM, the GRC Power Hour Session will be led by our rising leader, Dr. Eno Ebong, who will lead the forum.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by April 8, 2023. Please check back for updates.
Keynote Session: Mechanosensing and Mechanotransduction
Discussion Leaders
-
Bradford Berk (University of Rochester Medical Center, United States)
Speakers
-
Ellie Tzima (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
-
Christopher Chen (Boston University , United States)
Mechanosensing
Discussion Leaders
-
Rob Krams (Qmul, United Kingdom)
Speakers
-
Martin Schwartz (Yale School of Medicine, United States)
-
David Beech (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
-
Cheng Zhu (Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
-
Irena Levitan (University of Illinois at Chicago, United States)
Plaque Dynamics and Hemodynamics
Discussion Leaders
-
Stephanie Lehoux (McGill University, Canada)
Speakers
-
Lucas Timmins (University of Utah, United States)
-
Noelia Grande Gutiérrez (Carnegie Mellon University, United States)
Aneurysms Dynamics and Hemodynamics
Discussion Leaders
-
Brenda R. Kwak (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
Speakers
-
Jay Humphrey (Yale University, United States)
-
W. Robert Taylor (Emory University School of Medicine, United States)
-
Frank Gijsen (Erasmus Medical Center, The Netherlands)
-
Anne Robertson (University of Pittsburgh, United States)
-
Alison Marsden (Stanford University, United States)
Mechanical Forces and Atherosclerosis
Discussion Leaders
-
John Shyy (University of California, San Diego, United States)
Speakers
-
Paul Evans (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
-
Yun Fang (University of Chicago, United States)
-
Wayne Orr (LSU Health Shreveport, United States)
Mechanosignal Transduction
Discussion Leaders
-
Guillermo Garcia-Cardena (Harvard Medical School, United States)
Speakers
-
Ingrid Fleming (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
-
Luke Brewster (emory, United States)
-
Manu Platt (Georgia Institute of Technology / Emory University, United States)
-
Yingxiao Wang (UC San Diego & USC, United States)
-
Stephen White (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom)
Plaque, Aneurysm Rupture, and Cardivascular Events
Discussion Leaders
-
Ton van der Steen (Erasmus MC, The Netherlands)
Speakers
-
Tríona Lally (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
-
Jolanda Wentzel (ErasmusMC, Rotterdam, NL, The Netherlands)
Cardiovascular Biomechanics - Emerging Topics
Discussion Leaders
-
John Oshinski (Emory University, United States)
Speakers
-
Peter Weinberg (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
-
Craig Goergen (Purdue University, United States)
-
Elizabeth Jones (KU Leuven, Belgium)
-
Stefania Nicoli (Yale University, United States)
Young Investigators in Cardiovascular Biomechanics and Mechanobiomedicine
Discussion Leaders
-
Zorina Galis (National Institutes of Health, United States)
Speakers
-
Mabruka Alfaidi (LSU Health – Shreveport, United States)
-
Juan Jiménez (University of Massachusetts - Amherst, United States)
The GRC Power Hour™
Organizers
-
Eno Ebong (Northeastern University, United States)
-
Manu Platt (Georgia Institute of Technology / Emory University, United States)