Theme 1: Special Topics

Track 1.1 Biomechanics in Nature

• Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge, UK
• Johan van Leeuwen, Wageningen University, The Netherlands

Track 1.2 Ergonomics and Human Factors

• Chien-Chi (Max) Chang,Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety , USA
• Karen Sogaard, Institute of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, Denmark

Track 1.3 Functional Tissue Engineering

• Dietmar Hutmacher, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Australia
• Yasuhiko Tabata, Kyoto University, Japan

Track 1.4 Sports Biomechanics and Human Performance

• Julie Steele,University of Wollongong, Australia
• Benno M. Nigg,University of Calgary, Canada
• Tzyy-Yuang Shiang, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Theme 2: Organ Mechanics

Track 2.1 Artificial Organs

• Mitsuo Umezu, Waseda University, Japan
• Ajit Yoganathan,Georgia Institute of Technolgy, USA
• Cecile Legallais,Technological University of Compiegne, France

Track 2.2 Cardiovascular Biomechanics

• Dieter Liepsch,Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany
• Don P. Giddens,Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Track 2.3 Impact Injury Biomechanics

• King Yang, Wayne State University, USA
• Lynne E. Bilston, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Australia
• Narayan Yoganandan, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA

Track 2.4 Ocular Biomechanics

• Ross Ethier, Imperial College, UK
• J. Crawford Downs, Devers Eye Institute Research Laboratories, USA
• Roger Beuerman, Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore

Track 2.5 Oral and Maxillofacial Biomechanics

• Christoph Bourauel, University of Bonn, Germany
• Jos Vander Sloten, Katholieke University Leuven,  Belgium

Track 2.6 Orthopaedic Biomechanics

• Thomas D Brown, Iowa University, USA
• Masao Tanaka, Osaka University, Japan
• Yubo Fan, Beihang University, China

Track 2.7 Cranial and Spinal Biomechanics

• Hee Kit Wong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Vijay Goel, University of Toledo, USA
• Mark Pearcy, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

Track 2.8 Arthroplasty

• Cheng-Kung Cheng, National Yang Ming University, Taiwan
• Georg Duda, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
• Patrick J Prendergast, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Track 2.9 Rehabilitation

• Arthur Mak, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
• Gon Khang, Kyung Hee University, South Korea

Track 2.10 Reproductive Mechanics

• David Elad, Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Roger C Young, University of Vermont, USA

Track 2.11 Respiratory Mechanics

• Robert C Schroter, Imperial College London, UK
• Denis Doorly, Imperial College London, UK
• Chris Bertram, University of New South Wales, Australia

Track 2.12 Biotransport

• Ram Devireddy, Louisiana State University, USA
• Xiaoming He, University of South Carolina, USA

Theme 3: Tissue Mechanics

Track 3.1 Bone

• Ralph Mueller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Edward X Guo, Columbia University, USA

Track 3.2 Cardiovascular Tissues

• Takeo Matsumoto, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan
• Stephen Greenwald, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, UK

Track 3.3 Cartilage

• Jennifer S. Wayne, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
• Gerard A. Ateshian, Columbia University, USA
• James Hui, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Track 3.4 Ligament and Tendon

• Kozaburo Hayashi, Okayama University of Science, Japan
• Kai Ming Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
• Zong-Ming Li, Cleveland Clinic, USA

Track 3.5 Dental Tissues

• Tong Cao, National University of Singapore
• Arturo Natali, University of Padova, Italy

Track 3.6 Muscle Mechanics and Motor Control

• Walter Herzog, University of Calgary, Canada
• Thomas S. Buchanan, University of Delaware, USA

Track 3.7 Soft Tissues

• Michael S Sacks, University of Pittsburg, USA
• Donghua Liao, Aarhus University, Denmark

Theme 4: Cell Mechanics

Track 4.1 Biorheology and Microcirculation

• Takuji  Ishikawa, Tohoku University, Japan
• Noriyuki Kataoka, Kawasaki Medical University, Japan

Track 4.2 Cytoskeletal Mechanics

• Taiji Adaichi, Kyoto University, Japan
• Roger Kamm, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Track 4.3 Cell Migration

• M.H. Zaman, University of Texas at Austin, USA
• Anand R. Asthagiri, California Institute of Technology, USA

Track 4.4 Cell-matrix Interaction

• Viola Vogel, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
• Benoit Ladoux, Paris VII University, France

Track 4.5 Cell Nucleus

• G.V. Shivashankar, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India
• Muhammad Mofrad, University of California Berkerly, USA

Track 4.6 Membrane Mechanics

• Nir Gov, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
• Michael R Cho, University of Illinios, Chicago, USA

Track 4.7 Mechanobiology

• Michael Sheetz, Columbia University, USA
• Alexander Bershardsky, Weizmann Institute, Israel

Track 4.8 Human Diseases

• Cheng Dong, Penn State University, USA
• Geert Schmid Schobein, University of California, San Diego, USA

Theme 5: Molecular Mechanics

Track 5.1 Protein Mechanics

• Frauke Graeter, Heidelberg University, Germany
• Cheng Zhu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Track 5.2 DNA Mechanics

• Jie Yan, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Track 5.3 Cell-cell Junction  Mechanics

• Jean Paul Thiery, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore
• Nathan J. Sniadecki, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Track 5.4 Bioinspired Protein Materials

• Markus Buehler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Track 5.5 Ectopic Amyloid and Amyloid Protein Materials

• Tuomas Knowles, Cambridge University, United Kingdom

Track 5.6 Multi-scale Modeling and Simulation of Molecular and Supermolecular Structures

• Kilho Eom, Korea University, South Korea

Track 5.7 Nanomechanics and Nanomedicine

• Wing Kam Liu, Northwestern University, USA

Theme 6: Materials, Tools, Devices and Techniques

Track 6.1 Biomaterials

• John Fisher, Leeds University, UK
• Min Wang, University of Hong Kong, China

Track 6.2 Biomedical Instrumentation and Signal Processing

• Sim Heng Ong, National University of Singapore, Singapore
• Ning Gangmin, Zhejiang University, China

Track 6.3 Device Technologies - from Nano to Macro Scales

• Jongyoon Han,Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Hiroshi Wada, Tohoku University, Japan

Track 6.4 Computational Methods

• Timothy David, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• Karol Miller, University of Western Australia, Australia

Track 6.5 Computer Assisted Surgery and Biomedical Robotics

• Randy Ellis, Queen's University, Canada
• Ichiro Sakuma, University of Tokyo

Track 6.6 Biomedical Imaging and Optics

• Peter So, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
• Ying Xiao Peter Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Track 6.7 Neural Engineering

• Ming-Shaung Ju, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
• Metin Akay, Arizona State University, USA

Track 6.8 Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

• Frank Eisenhaber, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore
• Vladimir Kuznetsov, Bioinformatics Institute, Singapore

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