News and Events – February 2010
PUBLICATIONS
Alamri Y, Anderson T, MacAskill M (in press). We are what we eat, or are we not? New Zealand Medical Student Journal.
CONFERENCES
Hannah Farr and Tim David attended the conference ‘Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering’ in Valencia, Spain 24–27 February. Hannah was interested to find that they were the only presenters discussing cellular models involving the brain. Most of the other people investigating the brain were conducting research into cerebral aneurysm or atherosclerosis modelling with computational fluid dynamics or were looking at methods of measuring specific mechanical properties of tissue. There were a small number of people investigating multiscale modelling (large arteries at centimetre scale, through the smaller arterioles and capillaries, and down to nanoscale cellular mechanics) but they were looking at other organs rather than the brain. Hannah presented the following paper in the ‘Neuro’ special session:
Farr H, David T. Computational models of metabolic autoregulation in the human cerebrovasculature.