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Monday, September 04, 2017
 10:00 - 11:00  Arrival and arrangement
11:00 - 11:30 Welcome by Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann, Marco Tarantola,
Tim Meyer and Christoph Schmidt
11:30-12:30Lunch
Chair: Marcus Müller
12:30-13:00Peter Kohl
Computational Models as Drivers of Biomedical Research: Examples from the Heart
13:00-13:20A01/A16 Claus Heussinger
When boundaries melt away: flow and arrest of biological and soft materials
13:20-13:40A02/A13 Christoph Schmidt
Non-equilibrium Dynamics In Model Systems and Cardiomyocytes
13:40 - 14:10Ellen Kuhl
The physics of heart failure
14:10 - 14:30A19 Karen Alim
Active matter controls morpology
14:30 - 15:00Discussion and coffee break
15:00 - 15:30 Fred MacKintosh
Extracellular matrix mechanics and mechanical phase transitions
Chair: Carsten Beta
15:30 - 16:00 Alain Karma
Variability and compensation in cardiac electrophysiology at cellular, organ, and population levels
16:00 - 16:30Ramin Golestanian
Homeostasis and dynamic phase transition in a simple model of dividing chemotactic cells
16:30 - 16:50A07/A11 Tim Salditt
Pattern formation in the actin cortex of contractile cells
16:50 - 17:10A05/A14 Jörg Enderlein
Metal-Induced Energy Transfer (MIET)
17:10 - 18:10 Keynote lecture: Andrew McCulloch
Multi-Scale Modeling of the Failing Heart: From Mouse to Human
18:10 - 20:00 Catered Dinner
20:00Poster Session
Get-together
Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Chair: Florian Rehfeldt
09:00 - 09:30Ben Fabry
3-dimensional micro-tissues for disease modelling of desminopathies
09:30 - 10:00 Robert Gourdie
Excitation at the Gap Junction Edge: The Novel Role of the Perinexus in Cardiac Conduction
10:00 - 10:30Beth Pruitt
Engineering iPS Cardiomyocyte Models
10:30 - 10:50Discussion and coffee break
10:50 - 11:10A18 Part 1 Jan Christoph
Electromechanical Vortices during Cardiac Fibrilation
11:10 - 11:25SFB A08 Marco Tarantola
Mechanics and Dynamics of cardiomyocyte Adhesion
11:25 - 11:40A09 Eberhard Bodenschatz
Fast propagation regions cause self-sustained reentry in excitable media
Chair: Sarah Köster
11:40 - 12:10Paul Janmey
Non-linear elasticity, contraction, and relaxation in cells, tissues and biopolymer networks
12:10 - 12:40 Kevin Healy
Human Multiorgan Microphysiological Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
12:40 - 13:10SFB A17 Andreas Janshoff
Self-organization and mechanics of actomyosin networks attached to artificial and cellular plasma membranes
13:15 - 14:15Lunch
14:15SOCIAL visit and guided Tour (eng/ger) to castle Hanstein
18:30Conference Dinner medieval restaurant next to the Castle
Wednesday, September 06, 2017
Chair: Marco Mazza
09:00 - 09:30Joseph Käs
A new type of unjamming transitions in cancer
09:30 - 10:00Igor Efimov
Novel cardiac technology: flexible bioelectronics, microfluidics, and organotypic culture
10:00 - 10:30Tal Dvir
Advanced technologies for engineering functional cardiac patches
10:30 - 10:50SFB A10 Jörg Großhans
Tissue remodelling in Drosophila embryonic development
10:50 - 11:10Discussion and coffee break
11:10 - 11:40Elliot Elson
How best to describe the physiological state of an engineered heart tissue?
11:40 - 12:10Lior Gepstein
Optogenetic Control of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Derived Cardiac Tissues
12:10 - 12:30A18 Part 2 Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann
Directed self-assembly of human heart muscle
12:30 - 13:30Lunch
13:30Closing remarks by Christoph Schmidt and Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann
12:30 - 13:30Departure