The Sixth GEM⁴ Summer School Cell & Molecular Mechanics in BioMedicine with a focus on MECHANOBIOLOGY

This one week long summer school will be the sixth in the series, following the previous successful summer schools held at MIT (2006), National university of Singapore  (2007), Caltech (2008), University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign (2009) and University of Texas - Austin (Jan 2010). The objectives of this summer school are to educate participants in the fundamentals of cell and molecular biomechanics and its applications in biology and medicine, provide an intense learning experience, and facilitate interactions among engineers, physicists, biologists and clinicians. We hope to acquaint participants with basic concepts of biomechanics and biology and to apply biomechanical approaches to biological and clinical problems. The approach of the summer school is to first emphasize basic concepts and then proceed to problem-based learning in cell and molecular biomechanics. Laboratory demonstrations and exposure to local research facilities will be provided in addition to introductory and advanced tutorials.

The summer school is expected to be particularly appealing to:

Graduate students who want to learn molecular and cell biomechanics, but could not do so at their own institutions, or who want to get a different perspective to their research problems from what they have already learned;

Engineering or biology faculty and post-docs/researchers who wish to expand their research horizons and move into biomechanics that may provide critical insights into their own research;

Medical researchers who have the need to learn basic biomechanics and are interested in applying biomechanics to their clinical investigations.

Summer School website: http://www.dbs.nus.edu.sg/mechano/events/gem4/index.html.