Biography:
Dr. De Souza is a physicist interested in cell physiology, cellular mechanics and in particular how mechanotransduction impacts the differentiation of stem cell into myocytes. He received his Ph.D. degree from Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany. Thereafter, he joined the Leibniz Institute for New Materials and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA as a postdoctoral fellow. He researched how adhesion and mobility affects the contraction of primary myocytes and the differentiation of stem cell into cardiac cells. He developed devices to measure forces and stimulate single myocytes. Dr. De Souza currently collaborates with researchers at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
Title : Cardiac myocytes dynamic contractile behavior differs depending on heart segment