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May 28, Wednesday

9.00 Registration of participants

9.30 Opening ceremony

9.45 Cardio biophysics (Chair: K.I. Agladze)

I. Efimov, Washington University

Novel therapies for the failing human heart

N. Bursac, Duke University, Durham, USA

Bioengineering Cardiac Regeneration and Repair

11.05 Coffee break

11.20 Excitable Media Self-Organization (Chair: G.Th. Guria)

W. Ebeling, A.V. Kargovsky, Yu.M. Romanovsky, Humboldt University, Berlin; Moscow State University

Stochastic Motion in Active Media

T. Yamaguchi, Nanosystem Research Institute AIST, Tsukuba, Japan

Application of The Belousov-Zhabotinsky Reaction

12.40 Lunch

14.00 Cardio biophysics (Chair N. Bursac)

B.J. Caldwell, M.L. Trew, A. Pertsov, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, USA; Auckland Bioengineering Institute, New Zealand

Cardiac response to electrical field stimuli challenges the functional scyncytium paradigm

K.Agladze, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Arrhythmia modeling in tissue culture

15.10 Coffee break

15.25 Cardio biophysics (Chair I. Efimov)

I. A. Romanetz, Ph. Yu. Kopylov, G.Th. Guria, National Research Center for Hematology, Moscow; Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University; Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Topological Methods of Critical States Monitoring in Human Cardiodynamics

V. V. Kalinin, A. Kalinin, Russian Scientific Center for Surgery, Inst. for Information Transmission Problems, Moscow

Phase mapping of atrial fibrillation based on unipolar electrogramms in humans

16.45 Coffee break

17.00 Press Briefing

"Integration of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology into World Scientific and Educational Society"

18.30 Banquet

May 29, Thursday

9.30 Biophysics of heart and circulatory system (Chair A. Pertsov)

E.Vigmond, University of Bordeaux

Effects of the Purkinje System on Cardiac Electrical Activity

A.Yu. Naumov, S.A. Balashov, A.M. Melkumyants, Russian Cardiology Research Center

Coordination of different segments of arterial bed during organ vascular reactions

10.50 Coffee break

11.05 Excitable Media Self-organization (Chair M. Mazurov)

O.Mornev, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics

The physical mechanisms supporting movement of leading edge of an autowave: the resolution of some paradoxes

A. Polezhaev, Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow

Mechanisms of segmented pattern formation in biological and chemical systems

12.25 Lunch

14.00 Various mathematical models in biophysics (Chair A.M. Melkumyants)

S. Simakov, T.M. Gamilov, E.V. Petersen, A.S. Dukh, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Coronary flow remodeling by Enhanced External Counterpulsation therapy: Computational study

K.E. Zlobina, O.S. Rukhlenko, G.Th. Guria, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; National Research Center for Hematology, Moscow

Mathematical modeling of platelets activation and aging

A. Khalyavkin, Inst. of Biochemical Physic & Inst. for Systems Analysis

Reversibility of cardiomyopathy as a special case of reversibility of aging

15.30 Coffee break

15.45 Cardio biophysics (Chair O. Mornev)

I.S. Erofeev, A.K. Grebenko, N.N. Kudryashova, K.I. Agladze, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Applications of photo-controlled cardiac tissue

S. Frolova, O.Y. Pimenov, Y.M. Kokoz, K.I. Agladze, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics

Study of azobenzene trimethylammonium bromide interaction with voltage-gated ion channels of adult rat cardiomyocytes

M.E. Mazurov, I.M. Kaluzhny, Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics

Vortex autowaves during fibrillation in the Atria, their origin and annihilation

M.E. Mazurov, Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics, computer science

About the evolution of mathematical models of active media

17.15 Coffee break

17.30 Poster Session

May 30, Friday

10.00-12.00

Special Invitation to BFC Conference, Session "Scientific Breakthroughs of the 21st Century" with participation of Nobel Prize Laureates Michael Levitt, Robert Huber and Barry Sharpless.

12.30 Lunch

14.00 Advanced methods in biophysical research (Chair A. Polezhaev)

S. Shevkoplyas, University of Houston

Low-cost, point-of-care medical diagnostics based on 2D spatio-temporal pattern formation in porous media

A.E. Efimov, I.I. Agapov, Shumakov Federal Research Center of Transplantology and Artificial Organs, SNOTRA LLC

Scanning probe nanotomography as an advanced tool for 3D analysis of biomaterials, polymers and nanocomposites

T. Ohzono, T. Yamamoto, J. Fukuda, Nanosystem Research Institute, AIST, Japan

Defect structures with fluctuation in liquid crystals bounded by microwrinkles

15.20 Coffee break

15.35 Advanced methods in biophysical research (Chair S. Shevkoplyas)

Y. Takenaka, Y. Sumino, T. Ohzono, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Ibaraki; PRESTO, JST, Saitama; Tokyo University of Science, Japan

Spontaneous shrinking of surfactant droplet on a glass surface

E. Khlebus, S.M. Deyev, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Inst. of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow

Research of the dynamics of magnetic particles in a bloodstream of mice

K.G. Guria, Sh.N. Dzhumaeva, D.A. Ivlev, S.G. Uzlova, G.Th. Guria, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; National Research Center for Hematology, Moscow

Ultrasonic investigation of blood coagulation and fibrinolysis

16.45 Coffee break

17.00 Closing Ceremony