The third Meeting of the Italian National Chapter will be held in Pisa during the 25th September 2013.
The meeting of the Italian Chapter will be organized in collaboration with the XIV Congress of the Italian Society of Clinical Movement Analysis, SIAMOC .
More information can be found on the event web page.
The third Meeting of the Spanish National Chapter will be held in Barcelona during the 23rd -24th October 2013 at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona. The meeting will gather the Spanish members of the ESB who will have the opportunity to present their research.
During the 23rd October several courses will be held and, the meeting will be the 24th, where a special session of technology transfer in biomechanics, prizes and the renovation of the Council will take place.
More information about the Third Meeting of the ESB Spanish National Chapter is available at this web page.
Full University Professorship Biomechanics, Human Locomotion and Loading of the Musculoskeletal System
The Julius Wolff Institute for Biomechanics and Musculoskeletal Regeneration within the CharitéCenter9 for Traumatology and Reconstructive Surgery invites applications for the full university professorship position.
For more information please click on: JobOffer_W2-Biomechanik – englisch final
Deadline extended until the end of July
September 23, 2013 — September 27, 2013
Coordinators:
http://www.cism.it/courses/C1312/
Tissue engineering is the use of cells and bio-chemical substances, in combination with engineering and materials methods, in order to restore, maintain, or improve the functioning of biological tissue. The material scientific and cell biological technologies used in contemporary tissue engineering have reached breathtaking sophistication. On the contrary, the current design process of tissue engineering (TE) scaffolds is still a pure trial and error approach. We propose that this conceptual weakness explains why reliable, safe TE solutions for the daily clinical use are the exception, rather than the rule. In fact, it is very complicated (if not impossible), even with tremendous input gained from sophisticated experimental work, to guess suitable combinations of the key design parameters (chemical composition, porosity, microstructural geometry, distribution of signalling factors and biological cells), which reflect a highly complex system of mutually coupled phenomena.
This is where the field of applied mechanics is expected to be of enormous help – and recent developments in latest years are planned to be disseminated to an interdisciplinary audience from civil and mechanical engineering, material science, biology, and biomedicine. In more detail, the lectures of the proposed course will cover topics concerning the key challenges of contemporary tissue engineering strategies, which result from (at least) two competing requirements: (i) the tissue engineering scaffolds must exhibit a sufficient mechanical competence, i.e. stiffness and strength comparable to natural bone. This relates to structural soundness; and (ii) within the living organism, it should be continuously resorbed and replaced by natural bone. This relates to the topic of bioresorbable scaffolds enabling internal growth of new tissue.
Thereby, bone tissue will be the key focus, since in this field, great progress has been made, not only in the fields of materials science and biology, but in particular in the field of applied and computational mechanics.
The course will gather experts from the fields of applied mechanics, biology, and chemistry, in order to give, in an unprecedented transdisciplinary fashion (normally, applied mechanicians are rather missing in the topic, than coordinating a joint educational effort), the cutting-edge view on what the up-to-date ingredients of tissue engineering for load-carrying organs are.
The course is addressed to all doctoral students, researchers, engineers, physicists, chemists, biologists, and medical doctors interested in a novel, comprehensive approach to the understanding and improvement of the tissue engineering field, with special emphasis on mechanics of tissue engineering scaffolds and on the effect of mechanics on biological systems.
Young researchers, take the chance to get to visit a foreign lab! The ESB Mobility Grant aims to provide ESB members with financial assistance to carry out collaborative research in a foreign country as part of their PhD or early postdoctoral research. A limited number of awards (3) to a value of €4000 are available 2013 as an initiative from the ESB on a competitive basis. Information about eligibility and application process is available ‘here’. The submission deadline is 31st of May.
Dear ESB member,
I would like to attract your attention to the upcoming ESB-endorsed event:
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ESMAC2013 – 22nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Movement Analysis in Adults and Children
2-7 September 2013
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Website: http://www.esmac2013.com
The ESB members will have the same discount as the ESMAC members.
Dear ESB member,
I would like to attract your attention to the upcoming ESB-endorsed event:
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3rd SIMBIO-M International Conference
16-18 September 2013
Coventry University, UK
Website:http://simbio-m.ifsttar.fr/pratique.php
There will be a discount of 15% on the registration fee for ESB members.
Dear ESB member,
I would like to attract your attention to the upcoming ESB-endorsed event:
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IMechE: ‘Knee surgery and rehabilitation in 2013: How engineering is driving improved treatment?’
11-12November 2013
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
London, UK
Website: http://events.imeche.org/EventView.aspx?EventID=1916
There will be a discount of 20% on the registration fee for ESB members.
Dear ESB member,
I would like to attract your attention to the upcoming ESB-endorsed event:
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NSpine 2013 – The Comprehensive Spine Course
5-8 September 2013
Centre for Spinal Studies and Surgery,
Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK
Website: http://www.nspine.co.uk
There will be a discount of 15% on the registration fee for ESB members.
The European Society of Biomechanics cordially invites you to attend the 19th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB) which will be held in Patras, a beautiful commercial hub located in northern Peloponnese. The meeting will cover all the ESB’s core topics while including emerging research areas in which much new and exciting biomechanics research is taking place.
The event will open on Sunday, August 25th, with two pre courses of interest to graduate students, post-docs, and young researchers: Wavelet analysis of biological signals and Nanomechanics of cells-tissues-biomaterials. The main Congress programme will span from Monday, August 26th to Wednesday, August 28th and will feature different tracks of presentations from delegates. Plenary sessions are planned to address current challenges in biomechanics research, and to provide valuable insight into the ever-increasing importance of collaborative research. Confirmed plenary speakers include Prof. Reinhard Blickhan, Prof. Evan Evans, and Prof. Peter Kohl. Based on the previous editions, it is expected that the ESB2013 Congress will have a strong impact on the development of biomechanics, identifying emerging areas of research, promoting the collaboration between participants and industry members, providing information on interdisciplinary programs, EU funding opportunities and biomechanical education programs.
Key Dates
January 31st, 2013: Submission of abstracts
March 31st, 2013: Notification of abstracts
May 30th, 2013: Early registration deadline
Abstract submission
Authors are invited to submit their contirbutions on any of the congress topics. The submission of abstracts and congress registration should be performed via the website http://www.erasmus.gr/en/congresses/athens/2013/esb2013/welcome/.
Conference proceedings will be published online at the ESB webpage.
Registration fees
Early registration until the 30th of May is advised to benefit from the congress reduced fee. The registration fee covers admission to the scientific sessions, congress bag with proceedings, coffee breaks and light lunches, cheese & wine evenings, and welcome reception. The Congress registration fee also includes a One-year ESB membership, valid until the end of 2014 (for ESB members who have paid their 2013 membership fee) or the end of 2013 (for non-members willing to apply for ESB membership, under the condition that it is approved by the ESB Council); more information will be available during registration. More detailed information available at the Congress webpage.
Social Events
The opening ceremony, on Sunday evening will include a cultural event along with appropriate presentation and a nice reception.
Monday evening-night a “student event” with appropriate food-drinks-music-dancing will take place near the congress site, in the open.
Special excursions/tours, pre- and post-congress can be arranged by the professional organizers (details in the webpage).
The congress gala dinner is expected to be a “real” SYMPOSIUM.
ESB2013 Conference Organising Committee:
