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Not too late to register for ICMOBT 2011, Hawai'i, 11-15 December 2011. To view the full oral and poster programs or to register, go to www.mechanicsofmaterials.com

The 4th International Conference on the Mechanics of Biomaterials and Tissues, will take place in Hawai'i, USA, from 11-15 December 2011.

The oral and poster programs are available to download from the website http://www.mechanicsofbiomaterials.com/conference-Program.html

To register, go http://www.mechanicsofbiomaterials.com/conference-register.html

REGISTER BY FRIDAY 9 SEPTEMBER FOR EARLY BIRD RATE
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This conference will take place in Hawai'i, USA, 11-14 December 2011

 Themes covered will include: 

We wrote a book chapter about the role of the actin cytoskeleton in mechanosensation. The book title is Mechanosensitivity and Mechanotransduction, edited by A, Kamkin and I. Kiseleva and published by Springer. It is an on-line book with free access (http://www.springerlink.com/content/m1154whn66469588/). Its official version will be available in this summer. For citation, please refer to " Luo T. and Robinson D. N. The role of the actin cytoskeleton in mechanosensation. Kamkin & Kiseleva eds, Mechanosensitivity in Cells and Tissues 4: Mechanosensitivity and Mechanotransduction, 2010; Springer-Verlag, New York.". 

A postdoctoral research position is available immediately at the Mechanobiology Group, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatologyand Musculoskeletal Sciences at the University of Oxford to study tendon mechanobiology and repair following injury or pathology. This is an exciting opportunity to join a multi-disciplinary team drawn from the Botnar Research Centre, the Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering and the John Radcliffe Hospital to work at the forefront of strategically important musculoskeletal research.

We present a top-down hierarchical computational framework for mechanobiology problems, the molecular dynamics decorated finite element method (MDeFEM). The MscL in Escherichia coli was given as an example with its continuum model built under the instruction of MDeFEM framework.  Its gating pathways under various external perturbations were investigated, which are in good agreement with current experimental data and all-atom simulation results. The MDeFEM method showed its advantages and great potential in solving the mechanical responses of large biomolecules with complex geometries, which often involves multiple temporal and spatial scales.