ESB 2021

We are represented with presentations at the ESB meeting:

26th Congress of the European Society of Biomechanics

Our presentations:

Tuesday 2:30pm – Biomech: Poster session – Other Topics in Biomechanics

H. Stark, M. S. Fischer, E. Andrada – Hierarchical clustering of muscle activation during dog locomotion: a simulation study

Wednesday 9:30am – A&P.1: Animal and plant biomechanics

H. Stark, E. Andrada, M. S. Fischer – FEM simulation of the knee joint in dogs: Effects of joint loading correlate with bone density




7th Annual BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting

We are represented with poster presentations at the 7th Annual BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting:

7th Annual BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting

Our presentations:

#6002: Emanuel Andrada, Oliver Mothes, Heiko Stark, Matthew Tresch, Joachim Denzler, Martin S. Fischer, Reinhard Blickhan – Limb and joint kinematic control in the quail coping with step perturbations

#6003: Heiko Stark, Martin S. Fischer, Alexander Hunt, Fletcher Young, Roger Quinn, Emanuel Andrada – Modeling dog locomotion: Influences of body structure, neuromechanical control, and degenerative diseases




A new article is online

Our new research article (A three-dimensional musculoskeletal model of the dog) is online (Scientific Reports – Nature).

 
Stark H, Fischer MS, Hunt A, Young F, Quinn R, Andrada E (2021) A three-dimensional musculoskeletal model of the dog. Sci Rep. 11(1), 11335. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-90058-0 / PMID: 34059703 / EISSN:2045-2322




VIZBI & CONNECT

We are represented with presentations at the VIZBI and CONNECT meetings:

11th international meeting on Visualizing Biological Data

My presentation:

Stark H – Fibers – Everything is connected with each other.

Connective Tissues in Sports Medicine, 3rd CONNECT Congress

Our presentation:

Stark H & Sartori J – The distribution of connective tissue in humans




Software rebuild (cloud2, master, imagexd, enzyme2, vcfdumper)

Bug fixes and small features added.

Main changes: Master has now dynamic pages and an improved search function.




A new article is online

Our new research article (Influence of spatial structure on protein damage susceptibility: a bioinformatics approach) is online (Scientific Reports – Nature).

 
Fichtner M, Schuster S & Stark H (2021) Influence of spatial structure on protein damage susceptibility: a bioinformatics approach. Sci Rep 11, 4938. DOI:10.1038/s41598-021-84061-8 / EISSN:2045-2322

Fichtner M, Schuster S & Stark H (2021) Data for: Influence of spatial structure on protein damage susceptibility—A bioinformatics approach. Mendeley Data, Licence: CC BY 4.0. DOI:10.17632/jkmbpfgp4k.1




GPT-3

For all those who are looking for a muse: https://beta.openai.com/

And for all those who want to try themselves (GPT Neo): https://github.com/EleutherAI/gpt-neo




NASA’s Perseverance rover is on Mars

Good luck in the search for life. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/




A new article is online

Our new research article (Calculating the optimal hematocrit under the constraint of constant cardiac power) is online (Scientific Reports – Nature).

 
Sitina M, Stark H & Schuster S (2021) Calculating the optimal hematocrit under the constraint of constant cardiac power. Sci Rep 11: 3925. DOI:10.1038/s41598-021-83427-2 / EISSN:2045-2322




Congratulation

This year, a very interesting dissertation by Benjamin Winkel was published. He uses the data from my dissertation to improve the simulation of active muscle contractions. Congratulations on this work!

Winkel B (2020) A three-dimensional model of skeletal muscle for physiological, pathological and experimental mechanical simulations. https://doi.org/10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.4300

Stark H (2008) Die 3D-Architektur der Muskelfaszikel in ausgewählten Muskeln und ihre Relevanz zur Kraftentwicklung. https://www.db-thueringen.de/receive/dbt_mods_00011188