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APCOM'07-EPMESC XI
Third Asian-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics in conjunction with
Eleventh International Conference on the Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science

Session MS37-1  Computational Biomechanics: From Cell to Biomolecules (Sponsored by the 21st Century COE Program for Research and Education on Complex Functional Mechanical Systems, Kyoto University)
Time: 10:40 - 12:30 Thursday, December 6, 2007
Location: 1F Room F
Chairs: Chwee Teck Lim (National Univ. of Singapore, Singapore), Shigeo Wada (Osaka Univ., Japan)

MS37-1-1 (Time: 10:40 - 11:15)
Title[Keynote] Models of Cell Mechanics and Mechanotransduction at Multiple Scales
Author*Mohammad R. K. Mofrad (Univ. of California, Berkeley)

MS37-1-2 (Time: 11:15 - 11:40)
TitleEvaluation of the intracellular force transmission in endothelial cell
Author*Shinji Deguchi (Okayama Univ.)

MS37-1-3 (Time: 11:40 - 12:05)
TitleComputational modeling of the adhesion and deformation of a migrating cell in cancer metastasis
Author*Keng-Hwee Chiam, Tan Lei Lai, Yong Loong Quek (A*STAR Institute of High Performance Computing)

MS37-1-4 (Time: 12:05 - 12:30)
TitleA numerical study of actin polymerization driven protrusion related to shapes of a crawling lamellipodial fragment
Author*Yasuhiro Inoue (RIKEN), Taiji Adachi (Kyoto Univ.)