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...
On Sunday, September 11, several EBM members, some accompanied by their families, met for a cosy get-together in the beautiful Entla's Beergarden in Erlangen With late summer temperatures and delicious food and drinks, ...
Since the beginning of the application process, there has been a lively scientific exchange between the participating EBM working groups, e.g. in the form of various Zoom-webinars.
On 17th September, 2021 about 20 researchers from FAU and other scientific institutions met for interdisciplinary exchange on the topic of “Brain Mechanics” at FAU’s Villa Jordan
"On July 8 2019, we got together for a first meeting initializing new collaborations between anatomy, biomaterials, biophysics, and mechanics, which was hosted by Prof. Friedrich Paulsen at the Institute of Functional and Clinical Anatomy.
