Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is the national supercomputing centre in Spain. They specialise in high performance computing (HPC) and manage MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe.
Marina Lopez, from the High performance computational mechanics group is visiting us this week to discuss our common research and future lines of work.
If you are interested, please contact.
We are organising the In Silico Drug Safety and Efficacy Symposium in Oxford on Sept 21-22, 2017 in the context of our NC3R Infrastructure of Impact Award and the Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Network.
We will strongly encourage presentations on all aspects of cardiotoxicity across sectors including industry, academia, hospitals and regulatory agencies.
There will be a whole day of diverse presentations and discussions followed by dinner on Sept 21st, and more activities in the morning of Sept 22nd finishing with lunch. This will enable travelling to the Safety Pharmacology Society meeting in Berlin or Computing in Cardiology in Rennes.
If you are interested, please contact us as soon as possible and preferably by May 15th with the following information:
1) Confirmation of attendance (including name, title, institution and email address)
2) If you'd like to present, tentative title.
Linford Briant wins the Poster Prize at the joint meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) Islet Study Group and Beta Cell Workshop that was organised in Dresden. The Islet study group focuses on research into islet biology in diabetes.
The title of the poster is "Functional identification of islet cell types by electrophysiological fingerprinting", Linford Briant, Q. Zhang, E. Vergari, J. Kellard, B. Rodriguez, F. Ashcroft, P. Rorsman.
The prize was donated to Diabetes UK.
The Heart Rhythm Society’s 38th Annual Scientific Sessions, May 10-13, 2017, is gathering clinicians, scientists, researchers and innovators in the field of cardiac pacing and electrophysiology. More than 800 of the world’s most noted experts in cardiac rhythm management will contribute to over 250 educational sessions covering topics such as pacing, defibrillation, clinical arrhythmia management, ablation, pharmacology, genetics, basic science and health policy.
Hector Martinez-Navarro is presenting a poster on “High arrhythmic risk and low ST segment elevation in subendocardial compared to transmural acute ischemia”, Martinez-Navarro H, Minchole A, Bueno-Orovio A, Rodriguez B.
The Oxford Solid Mechanics Junior Committee has organised the “Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering and Imaging at different scales" workshop that is held on the 5th May, 2 pm, at the Mathematical Institute, The University of Oxford. Everybody is welcome to attend this event.
Francesc Levrero, from the computational cardiovascular science team, is an invited speaker at the workshop, his talk is on "Electro-Mechanics of the human heart".
Pint of Science is a non-profit organisation that brings some of the most brilliant scientists to your local pub to discuss their latest research and findings with you. The festival runs 15-17th May, 2017 and is held in six venues across the city.
Oliver's talk is on “Modelling nerve communication” on the 15th on May, 7-9 pm, at the Turl Street Kitchen.
Ana Minchole is an invited speaker at the Cloud and High Performance Computing in Biomedicine meeting at UCL, London, 27 April 2017. The talk is entitled “High Performance Computing for the investigation of electrophysiological activity of human heart in control and disease.”
The meeting is part of the CompBioMed project. This project is an EU-commission Horizon 2020 user-driven Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Computational Biomedicine. The main objective of the CoE is to nurture and promote the uptake and exploitation of high performance computing (HPC) within the biomedical community.
The day involves presentations from the CompBioMed Core and Associate Partners and is intended to provide a forum for users from academia, industry and healthcare sectors to meet with open source software developers alongside independent software and hardware.
He have now released the April newsletter of the “In silico human drug safety and efficacy” initiative, with information of the project and future events and opportunities.
Have a look here!
Alfonso Bueno-Orovio who has been awarded a British Heart Foundation Intermediate Basic Science Research Fellowship, with funding for 5 years. The fellowship will be based in the Computer Science Department and co-sponsored by the Radcliffe Department of Medicine.
Alfonso has been awarded the fellowship for research into Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM). This is a complex hereditary heart disease and the leading cause of sudden cardiac death in children and young adults, including young athletes. An emblematic example of the risk of death in HCM was the cardiac arrest experienced by Fabrice Muamba in March 2012 in the televised football match between Bolton and Tottenham Hotspur: he was clinically dead for more than an hour, and his heart needed 15 electrical shocks to be restarted. In fact, whereas many HCM patients remain asymptomatic, sudden cardiac death is also in many instances the first manifestation of this disease.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy affects both the muscle and the electrical function of the heart. However, little is yet known about how these two factors combine to increase the risk of deadly episodes in the disease, as this cannot be easily studied in living patients. In this context, computational models of human HCM electrical function and anatomy will be constructed based on a unique dataset at different levels of human physiology. Simulation studies will be conducted to investigate how the various components of the disease play a role in establishing arrhythmias in human HCM hearts. These new technologies will help in a better diagnosis of patients at risk of cardiac death, and in the identification of novel therapies for the disease.
Congratulations to Alfonso!
Mikael Wallman is visiting us from the 26th to the 29th of April, 2017 to discuss current and future research on cardiac modelling.
Mikael Wallman is a former DPhil and postdoc of the Computational Cardiovascular Science group and he is now working at The Fraunhofer-Chalmers Research Centre for Industrial Mathematics in Sweden.
Please contact if you are interested in meeting him.
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