6th world Congress on Biomechanics

ANNOUNCEMENT
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Come join the 6th World Congress on Biomechanics 2010 in Singapore!

Since 1990, the World Congress on Biomechanics has been held once every four years. The venue revolves around North America, Europe and Asia. The 6th World Congress on Biomechanics (WCB) 2010 will be held in Singapore from 1 to 6 August 2010 at the Suntec Convention Centre. Check out the website: www.wcb2010.net

Call for Abstracts

Please submit your abstracts here:
http://www.wcb2010.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2:abstracts-submission&catid=3:abstracts&Itemid=114

Deadline for submission of abstracts; 01 March 2010

Summer School on Biomechanics July 2010

This summer school on "Modelling in Biomechanics and Mechanobiology at Different Length Scales" is organised by Prof. Holzapfel in Graz, Austria, in the period July 5-9, 2010.

This course is addressed to PhD students but may also be accessible to some undergraduate students with relevant background.

More details of the Summer School can be found at the website:
www.biomech.tugraz.at/summerschool-2010

PhD Studentship at the University of Southampton, UK

There is a PhD position available on Development of a Mechanistic Wear Model for Analysing the Performance of Total Knee

Replacemen at the University of Southampton, UK. You can find more information on the position here.

If you wish to discuss any details of the project informally, please contact Dr. Georges Limbert, Bioengineering Sciences

Research Group & National Centre for Advanced Tribology (nCATS), SES, University of Southampton, Tel:

+44-(0)23-8059-2381. Email: g.limbert@soton.ac.uk

Magnetic Resonnance Force Microscopy

I was reading a press release from IBM about a technique called Magnetic Resonnance Force Microscopy(MRFM). Through this technique, one could acheive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with a volume resolution 100 million times finer than conventional MRI which is really impressive. Moreover, the technique could be extremely usefull for 3D imaging of small viruses or proteins. The image shows the set up of the apparatus.

The magnetic resonance force microscope (MRFM) is a novel scanned probe instrument which combines the three-dimensional imaging capabilities of magnetic resonance imaging with the high sensitivity and resolution of atomic force microscopy. It will enable non-destructive, chemical-specific, high-resolution microscopic studies and imaging of subsurface properties of a broad range of materials. This technology holds clear potential for atomic-scale resolution.( reference)

Here is a recent journal article published in ' proceedings of the national academy of sciences' where you can find more detailed and scientific explanations about the technique:
Degen et al., ''nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging'', the article is in the presse( published already online),

There is a video on youtube that explains simply how the system works:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=AAA4FGKCBik