Workshop
Together with Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT we organize workshop Integrated Modeling and Experiments of Biological Cells and Biomaterials. It is the fourth edition of workshop series Workshop on Modelling of Biological Cells, Fluid Flow and Microfluidics. This workshop aims to bring together leading experts to explore the latest advances in understanding and manipulating biological systems at the molecular and cellular level. The workshop chairmen are Ming Dao, MIT and Ivan Cimrák. More information HERE.
Past workshops
We organized 3rd Workshop on Modelling of Biological Cells, Fluid Flow and Microfluidics, 9. – 13. February 2020, Vratna, Slovakia. This workshop aims to bring together the users of PyOIF and experts in cell modelling and microfluidics. More information HERE.
PyOIF
We developed a python module in ESPResSo software package for simulating elastic objects (e.g. cells) immersed in a fluid. Fast computational core, user-friendly python scripting interface, detailed documentation supplemented with a book on blood flow modelling – all this is PyOIF.
Research
One sentence introduction: To help those believing in power of computational models (biologists, applied mathematicians and physicists, biomedics, data scientists), we develop cell models based on biomechanics and neural networks, we analyse them, and we use them for computer-aided research.
Selected publications
- Gusenbauer M., Tóthová R., Mazza G., Brandl M., Schrefl T., Jančigová I., Cimrák I., Cell Damage Index as Computational Indicator for Blood Cell Activation and Damage, Artificial Organs, 2018, 42, (42), 746-755.
- Bušík M., Slavík M., Cimrák I., Dissipative Coupling of Fluid and Immersed Objects for Modelling of Cells in Flow, Computational and mathematical methods in medicine, 2018, 2018, 7842857-, pp.11.
- Bušík M., Jančigová I., Tóthová R., Cimrák I., Simulation study of rare cell trajectories and capture rate in periodic obstacle arrays, Journal of Computational Science, 2016, 17, 370-376.
- Cimrák I., Collision rates for rare cell capture in periodic obstacle arrays strongly depend on density of cell suspension, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2016, 19, (19), 1525-1530.
- Jančigová I., Cimrák I., Non-uniform force allocation for area preservation in spring network models, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 2016, 32, (32), Art.ID e02757, pp.11.
- Gusenbauer M., Mazza G., Brandl M., Schrefl T., Tóthová R., Jančigová I., Cimrák I., Sensing Platform for Computational and Experimental Analysis of Blood Cell Mechanical Stress and Activation in Microfluidics, Procedia Engineering, 2016, 168, 1390-1393.
- Cimrák I., Gusenbauer M., Jančigová I., An ESPResSo implementation of elastic objects immersed in a fluid, Computer Physics Communications, 2014, 185, (185), 900-907.
- Cimrák I., Gusenbauer M., Schrefl T., Modelling and simulation of processes in microfluidic devices for biomedical applications, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 2012, 64, (64), 278-288.