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EBM was proud to be a part of the prestigious 93rd Annual Meeting of GAMM held in Dresden, Germany from May 29 to June 2, 2023. Our co-spokesperson, Prof. Silvia Budday, captivated the audience with her invited lecture on 'Novel Modelling Approaches in Structural Stability' at the Young Researchers' Minisymposia.

On 24.05.23 the monthly doctoral researchers (DR) seminar was hosted by Sophia Auer. After an interesting 30min introduction into the background and objectives of the A02, the DRs were given a guided tour of the anatomy department, including the anatomical collection of the institute. During the sem...

EBM was pleased to participate in the prestigious CMBBE International Symposium held in Paris, France, at the renowned Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology. Our researchers, alongside experts from around the world, showcased the capabilities of Computational Mechanics in advancing healthcare systems.

Join an engineer on a fascinating journey through the intricate world of neuroanatomy. At the first EBM harmonization workshop led by Prof. Dr. Friedrich Paulsen, participants gained a deeper understanding of the brain's anatomy through a brief seminar and an assisted brain dissection.

The team of X03 Boccaccini (DR: Markus Lorke and Sonja Kuth) visited the team of C02 Frischknecht (DR: Bartomeu Perelló Amorós) on 31.03.23 at the animal physiology labs for a lab shadowing and discussion of the planned experiments in the scope of the CRC EBM. Planned experiments will investigate th...

On 4 April 2023, project B01 (Oskar Neumann, PI: S. Budday) and Emmy-Noether research group BRAINIACS  (Nina Reiter, PI: S. Budday) conducted some preliminary experiments on pig spinal cords. The main goal was to gain a feel for producing spinal cord samples and to become familiar with the experimen...

On 21 March 2023, project X03 (Markus Lorke and Sonja Kuth, PI: A.R. Boccaccini) and project C04 (Shanice Heidenreich, PI: A. Boßerhoff) performed their first collaborative experiments. The aim of this collaborative lab work was to familiarise ourselves with the different set-ups of experimental wor...

On March 17th, 2023, the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1540 "Exploring Brain Mechanics (EBM)" held its kick-off meeting at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Systems and Device Technology (IISB) in Erlangen. The meeting started with EBM spokespersons' presentations on research areas and center structure. Then, Friedrich Paulsen presented the integrated graduate program and its qualification events.

On March 17, 2023, the members of the new Collaborative Research Center 1540 "Exploring Brain Mechanics (EBM)" will meet at Fraunhofer IISB to launch their programme. PIs as well as doctoral researchers and postdocs from various faculties at FAU, the University Hospital Erlangen, the Max Planck Inst...

How does a brain tumour actually look in real life? On 13 February 2023, Nina Reiter and Jan Hinrichsen from project A01 (PI: Silvia Budday) visited the neuropathology where they were welcomed by Lucas Hoffmann (project A02, PI: Ingmar Blümcke).  The opportunity to observe the daily process of cutt...