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On the 12th of October, EBM Researchers were brought to the knowledge of the “Good Scientific Practice“ by Dr. Christian Schmitt-Engel who held a lecture on the topic at the Interdisciplinary Center for Nanostructured Films (IZNF). After being introduced to the rules and regulations of Good Research...

The 1st EBM Retreat took place from September 21st to 22nd, 2023 at the Hotel Arvena Reichsstadt in the small historic town of Bad Windsheim and provided a platform for scientific presentations primarily from doctoral researchers and postdoctoral researchers of the CRC 1540 „Exploring Brain Mechanic...

This year’s 10th Summer School on Biomechanics of Soft Tissue: From the Heart to the Cardiovascular System to the Brain (coordinated by Gerhard A. Holzapfel and Ray W. Ogden) was a scientifically engaging experience. Over an intensive five days, speakers gave a comprehensive insight into their respe...

As part of the graduate program, the EBM researchers had the opportunity to gain hands on experience on the autopsy of the human brain. The workshop was hosted by the department of neuropathology of the university hospitals Erlangen and consisted of two parts, the first one being an online introduct...

It was a great pleasure to deliver a keynote lecture at the workshop on biophysics based modeling and data assimilation in medical imaging hosted by the Weierstrass Institute (WIAS) Berlin. The three days of intense discussions and interdisciplinary talks on multiscale modeling, scientific comput...

The monthly Doctoral Researcher Seminar was held on the 20th of July, with Sonja Kuth (X03) taking on the role of the host. The seminar proved to be an insightful and engaging event, with a focus on engineering hydrogels to mimic brain-tissue-like matrices. The presentation not only shed light on X0...

An interdisciplinary training workshop has brought together EBM researchers from different disciplines at the Institute of Anatomy to explore the mysteries of the human brain, with a special focus on the intricate anatomy of the spinal cord. Led by Prof. Dr. Stefanie Kürten from the Neuroanatomy Dep...

In the old tradition, on July 17, we celebrated the end of the semester and a quite successful first half of the year through our annual beergarden visit. There have been many new exciting developments, not least the founding of our new Institute of Continuum Mechanics and Biomechanics at the Depart...

From July 9-12, the 28th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB2023) was held in Maastricht, Netherlands. The conference endorsed the importance of the integration of mechanistic experimental and computational biomechanics with upcoming data-driven modeling. The conference venue (MECC...

On Tuesday, 30th of May 2023, LKM and LTM jointly visited Erlangen’s Bergkirchweih – a traditional folk festival located at a small mountain in the north of Erlangen since 1755. Well known all around Germany and beyond, the so-called “Berg” attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. Pleas...