The Interface Group

Representative publications:

D. Franco, F. Milde, M. Klingauf, F. Orsenigo, E. Dejana, D. Poulikakos. M. Cecchini, P. Koumoutsakos, A. Ferrari, V. Kurtcuoglu.
Accelerated endothelial wound healing on microstructured substrates under flow.
Biomaterials, 34(5), 1488 - 1497 (2013). doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2012.10.007

F. Rikhtegar, F. Pacheco, C. Wyss, K. S. Stok, H. Ge, R. J. Choo, A. Ferrari, D. Poulikakos, R. Müller, V. Kurtcuoglu.
Compound Ex Vivo and In Silico Method for Hemodynamic Analysis of Stented Arteries.
PLoS ONE, 8(3), e58147 (2013). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058147

W. Tarnawski, V. Kurtcuoglu, P. Lorek, M. Bodych, J. Rotter, M. Muszkieta, L. Piwowar, D. Poulikakos, M. Majkowski, and A. Ferrari.
A Robust Algorithm for Segmenting and Tracking Clustered Cells in Time-Lapse Fluorescent Microscopy.
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 17(4), 862 - 869 (2013). doi: 10.1109/JBHI.2013.2262233

F. Orsenigo, C. Giampietro, A. Ferrari, M. Corada, A. Galaup, S. Sigismund, G. Ristagno, L. Maddaluno, G. Y. Koh, D. Franco, V. Kurtcuoglu, D. Poulikakos, P. Baluk, D. McDonald, M. G. Lampugnani, E. Dejana.
Phosphorylation of VE-cadherin is modulated by haemodynamic forces and contributes to the regulation of vascular permeability in vivo.
Nature Communications, 3, 1208 (2012). doi: 10.1038/ncomms2199

M. Schmid Daners, S. Bottan, L. Guzzella, D. Poulikakos, V. Kurtcuoglu.
Craniospinal Pressure–Volume Dynamics in Phantom Models.
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 59(12), 3482 - 3490 (2012). doi: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2214220

A. Marmaras, S. Wydenkeller, M. Tobler, R. Wirz, D. Poulikakos, V. Kurtcuoglu.
Cutaneous heat transfer and its effect on contact heat evoked brain potentials.
Experimental Heat Transfer, 25(4), 341 - 362 (2012). doi: 10.1080/08916152.2012.675800

F. Milde, D. Franco, A. Ferrari, V. Kurtcuoglu, D. Poulikakos, P. Koumoutsakos.
Cell image velocimetry (CIV): boosting the automated quantification of cell migration in wound healing assays.
Integrative Biology, 4(11), 1437 - 1447 (2012). doi: 10.1039/C2IB20113E

M. Schmid Daners, V. Knobloch, M. Soellinger, P. Boesiger, B. Seifert, L. Guzzella, V. Kurtcuoglu.
Age-specific characteristics and coupling of cerebral arterial inflow and cerebrospinal fluid dynamics.
PLoS ONE, 7(5), e37502 (2012). doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037502

A. Marmaras, T. Lendenmann, G. Civenni, D. Franco, D. Poulikakos, V. Kurtcuoglu, A. Ferrari.
Topography-mediated apical guidance in epidermal wound healing.
Soft Matter, 8(26), 6922 - 6930 (2012). doi: 10.1039/C2SM00030J

W. Wiedemair, Z. Tukovic, H. Jasak, D. Poulikakos, V. Kurtcuoglu.
On ultrasound-induced microbubble oscillation in a capillary blood vessel and its implications for the blood–brain barrier.
Physics in Medicine and Biology, 57(4), 1019 - 1045 (2012). doi:10.1088/0031-9155/57/4/1019

F. Rikhtegar, J. A. Knight, U. Olgac, S. C. Saur, D. Poulikakos, W. Marshall, P.C. Cattin, H. Alkadhi, V. Kurtcuoglu.
Choosing the optimal wall shear parameter for the prediction of plaque location - A patient-specific computational study in human left coronary arteries.
Atherosclerosis, 221(2), 432 - 437 (2012). doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2012.01.018

S. Bottan, D. Poulikakos, V. Kurtcuoglu.
Phantom model of physiologic intracranial pressure and cerebrospinal fluid dynamics.
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 59(6), 1532 - 1538 (2012). doi: 10.1109/TBME.2012.2187448