It gives us great pleasure to announce the IUTAM symposium “Cellular Mechanobiology and Morphogenesis” to be held in Galway, 22-25 August 2027.
The symposium provides a unique forum for scientists and engineers across the world to exchange ideas and identify new research directions toward understanding mechanobiological processes in the human body, contributing to modern medicine and shaping a safe and healthy future. Research breakthroughs in the field require an immense multidisciplinary effort, including novel imaging and measurement techniques as well as advanced theoretical and computational models. The focus of this symposium is to explore the mechanics of cytoskeletal contractility and protrusion, cellular and tissue growth, adhesion, ECM remodeling, morphogenesis, and nuclear mechanotransduction.
Global leaders in the field, invited by the scientific committee, will present their research in a series of plenary talks.
All living cells and tissues exert and experience physical forces that guide their function. Those mechanical processes are pivotal in the biophysics of embryonic formation, tumor angiogenesis, cancer growth and metastasis, wound healing, and developmental diseases. A fundamental understanding of these mechanisms can contribute to the advancement of medical intervention.
Tissue development and remodeling are mediated by cell-generated stresses and strains, which emerge at the nanoscale in response to complex biochemical interactions among cells and with their microenvironment. Cells can sense and mechanically respond to their surroundings by attaching to extracellular matrix (ECM) fibers through the formation of focal adhesions, developing actin networks, and actively generating tension via myosin motor contractility. This physical system is one of the most complex known to mankind and continues to be the subject of intense multidisciplinary research.
Theoretical and experimental characterization of living matter requires the collective effort of scientists across a wide range of disciplines, including solid mechanics and bio-fluid dynamics at different length and time scales. We hope this IUTAM Symposium will encourage worldwide cooperation in advancing scientific understanding of cellular mechanobiology and morphogenesis.
All photos are provided courtesy of Prof Chaosheng Zhang, University of Galway.
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