The Mechanobiology Institute’s 10th Anniversary Conference
“Mechanobiology after 10 Years: The Promise of Mechanomedicine”
Organized by
Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI)
7-10 November 2018
In partnership with
CNRS, France
The National Centre for Biological Sciences, India
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
The FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Italy
About
The Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore will be celebrating its 10th Anniversary in 2018. The field has grown significantly in the last ten years and mechanosensing and mechanotransduction are now common elements in the analysis of most cellular functions. Mechanobiology is at the heart of cancer, cardiovascular disease and the problems associated with aging. In the area of wound healing, mechanical stimulation is already a proven beneficial treatment. A major challenge is whether or not we can move from phenomenology to molecular mechanisms that can be inhibited or accelerated to block further damage or improve healing. Because targeted mechanical stimuli can alter biochemical processes in ways that drugs are meant to do but without long-lasting side effects, they can be part of treatments. However, the targets of the mechanical stimuli and the downstream pathways involved should be understood to effectively design treatments. Thus, it is important to continue the interdisciplinary assault on Mechanobiology at a molecular level by using super-resolution microscopy and nanotechnology tools. This conference is not to celebrate our successes but rather to start to define the areas where the understanding of mechanobiology can dramatically alter our approaches to fundamental biological problems in aging and disease.
Dates
7-10 November 2018
Venue
The Shaw Foundation Alumni House, National University of Singapore
Themes
In line with this, MBI’s 10th Anniversary Conference will be organized on the following themes :
- Cancer Mechanobiology
- Pathogenesis
- Neuro-degeneration
- 3D Model Systems
- Single molecule Mechanobiology
- Mesoscale Mechanosensitivity
- Theoretical Mechanobiology
- Engineering Mechanobiology
