The Cardiac Physiome 2024 Workshop, September 12-14 in Freiburg, has been concluded successfully. We would like to thank all participants for their engagement and contributions.
The event welcomed over 140 scientists from 19 countries across 5 continents, including 66 early career researchers, and integrated the final workshop of the MICROCARD EuroHPC project. Our exciting 2.5-day programme took place in the festive lecture hall of the University of Freiburg, featuring 10 invited lectures, 23 abstract-selected talks including 10 talks given by trainees, and more than 60 poster presentations during two dedicated poster sessions. Participants enjoyed 14 h of (scheduled) social interaction time – probably more, fostering collaboration and networking.
Trainee Poster Competition prizes went to Beatrice Moscoloni, Jonathan Krauß, Joachim Greiner, Tom Konings, Anna Qi, Zachary Long, Debbie Zhao, Sophia Ohnemus. Congratulations!
One of the highlights of the event was the Special Lecture by Denis Noble on Cardiac Computational Modelling: From Van der Pol (1927) to “Where are we nearly a century (2024) later?”. [recording]
The workshop concluded with a general meeting where Peter Hunter presented the next Cardiac Physiome Workshop, scheduled for February / March 2026 in Auckland [presentation]. Additionally, Andrew McCulloch proposed hosting the subsequent workshop in 2027/28 in San Diego [presentation].
As the Cardiac Physiome Society is now a fairly large community, where not every member will be able to attend every workshop, the voting process for future meeting locations is now conducted online.
If you wish to host the 2027/28 event, please send a short presentation (5 slides max) by 15 October to cardiac-physiome-workshop@googlegroups.com. Thereafter, we will put all proposals received to a vote during late October / early November 2024.
We are hosting a Special Issue on Integrating experimental and mathematical approaches to advance cardiac physiology research in The Journal of Physiology related to the meeting. The call for papers is open with the deadline on January 31, 2025. Submissions will be reviewed and published online on a rolling basis.
Thank you once again for making this year’s workshop a success.
We look forward to meeting again in 2026 in Auckland.
With kind regards,
Peter, Axel and Viviane
Confirmed Speakers
Denis Noble (Department of Physiology, Anatomy, and Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom):
The history of cardiac computational modelling of electrophysiology from relaxation oscillators, to Hodgkin-Huxley, Markov, big data and AI: are we nearly there yet?
Eva Rog-Zielinska (IEKM, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany):
3D time-resolved electron microscopy: a contradiction in terms?
Jan Lebert (Cardiac Vision Laboratory, University California San Francisco, USA):
Mapping cardiac electrics and mechanics at high spatio-temporal resolution: AI to the rescue?
Sandy Engelhardt (Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany):
Cardiac macroscopy: how to see the wood for all the trees
Michael Gotthardt (Translational Cardiology and Functional Genomics, Max Delbrück Center, Berlin, Germany):
From alternative splicing to Frank-Starling: can cardiac mechanics be quantitatively conceptualised bottom-up?
Andrew Taberner (Auckland Bioengineering Institute, Bioengineering Institute, New Zealand):
Optimised wet-lab instrumentation for dry-lab research into cardiac structure and function: how to engineer the bi-directional cross-talk between the analogue world and its digital representation
Daniel Hook (CEO at Digital Science, Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom):
Research data management at the interface between the analogue world and its digital representation
Natalia Trayanova (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA):
Clinical translation of cardiac modeling and image analysis: modelling to the rescue!
Blanca Rodriguez (Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom):
Modelling drug effects on cardiac function for personalised medicine: hope or hype…
Igor Efimov (Cardiovascular Engineering Laboratory, Northwestern University, USA):
Real-time arrhythmia detection and termination using ML-based approaches
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