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Dr Sarah Waters, Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford presents this lecture.
Abstract: The broad goal of tissue engineers is to grow functional tissues and organs in the laboratory to replace those which have become defective through age, trauma, and disease and which can be used in drug screening applications. To achieve this goal, tissue engineers aim to control accurately the biomechanical and biochemical environment of the growing tissue construct, in order to engineer tissues with the desired composition, biomechanical and biochemical properties (in the sense that they mimic the in vivo tissue). The growth of biological tissue is a complex process, resulting from the interaction of numerous processes on disparate spatio-temporal scales. Advances in the understanding of tissue growth processes promise to improve the viability and suitability of the resulting tissue constructs. In this talk, I highlight some of our recent mathematical modelling work that aims to provide insights into tissue engineering applications.
Biography: Sarah Waters’ research is in physiological fluid mechanics and the application of
mathematics to medicine. Her PhD research at the Department of Applied Mathematical Studies, University of Leeds was supervised by Prof.T.J. Pedley FRS and developed and solved mathematical models for blood flow in the coronary arteries. After leaving Leeds Sarah was a post-doctoral research fellow with Professor JB Grotberg at Northwestern and Michigan Universites, before moving to Cambridge as Junior Research Fellow at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. In 2001 Sarah joined the Division of Applied Mathematics at the University of Nottingham as Lecturer and then Reader, and in 2007 she took up her current faculty position as University Lecturer and Reader in Applied Mathematics at the Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, University of Oxford.
Light refreshments served from 3.30pm in the Staff Breakout Room, Room 3.24, Royal School of Mines.