About the Workshop
The Mechanobiology Workshop 2007 brings together experts from multiple disciplines to define how the mechanical factors, force and geometry, in addition to biochemical stimuli control biological form, cell growth and differentiation.
Using nanotechnology, molecular and cell biology, biophysics and computational biology, the basic mechanosensing and mechanotransduction functional modules used by cells can be understood at the nanometer (molecular) and piconewton level.
These processes underlie cellular mechanical functions that are critical in normal and disease states such as cancer and bacterial pathogenesis.