abhay ramachandra

Our latest paper on Proximal Pulmonary Artery Stiffening as a Biomarker of Cardiopulmonary Aging - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ac…

#newinJBME This #technicalbrief from @abhay_br @Yale measures longitudinal changes in pulmonary artery remodeling under hypoxia, data that will be used to inform future predictive models of vascular adaptation. doi.org/10.1115/1.4064…

Attention biomech-mechbio folks: Reminder that abstract submission for the 2024 MechBio Symposium is currently open, and the submission deadline is extended until July 15, 2024. Standard registration for all participants is also now open. Check out details on website+RT/Amplify!

A fun project that I got to mostly work on with pen and paper! We looked at the potential for mechanical instabilities when simulating vascular smooth muscle contraction and found potential issues with simple constitutive models: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

@JasonSzafron @AleGiudici92 and Dr. @BartSpronck

Forgot to tag my excellent collaborators @AleGiudici92 @abhay_br!

In 2024: #Biology conference: This is state-of-art data, from our 2022 paper. #Mechanical engineering conference: This is recent data, from our 2022 paper. #AI/#ML conference: This is old data, from our 2022 paper. Different disciplines, different scales!

@khademh insightful lines, had them on twitter in 2021, to remind me : x.com/abhay_br/statu… will bookmark this now

Our findings on remodeling of murine branch pulmonary arteries under chronic hypoxia in @JBMEjournal : doi.org/10.1115/1.4064…

Check out our latest paper comparing structure and mechanics of thoracic blood vessels across circulations rdcu.be/dwbrx, with @cris_cavinato, JD Humphrey in @ABMEjournal

@sanjaysub The supporting ecosystem for classical music is like tanpura to a concert, may look like a small side instrument but very important! Thanks for throwing some light on them.

It's December again! The music season is beginning soon and I want to share a note about my Tanpura! I started to learn the violin in 1975 at the age of 7 from Shri V Lakshminarayana. In a short while I was progressing well and then I discovered the wonderful game of street cricket! However, my musical learning did continue and over time I did switch to singing and that has sustained me all my life. In my early years of violin learning, I broke the neck of the violin once unfortunately. My Guru asked me to take the same to the newly opened Saptaswara Musicals in Mylapore to get it repaired. That was my first memory of meeting Mr Lal who got my instrument repaired in no time. Over the years Saptaswara has been my goto for my musical needs, especially strings for my Tambura, replacement parts and so on. Mr Lal has always been available and ready to help out with whatever I needed. Much later, when my son started learning the Guitar, I took him there and Mr Lal immediately sold me a piece signed by Harris Jeyaraj, the music composer! My good friend, late Mr Jega was my mentor in understanding the art of tuning and maintaining the Tambura. I have made a few visits with him also to Saptaswara to choose strings etc. Sometime in 1993, I was away for a concert. Jega uncle called Aarthi from Saptaswara and asked her to come over immediately. There was a new Miraj Tanpura in the store and the sound was just magnificent. He told Aarthi that it would be foolish to not get it for me. At that time the tambura cost Rs 5000! I got back from the concert and found this beautiful specimen standing in my house! Aarthi had actually got it on credit from Mr Lal, of course Jega uncle standing guarantee! I strummed it and knew I had to have it. So there went 3 concerts' income, but a lifetime of musical sound reverberating in my house. The tanpura has had such a long innings with me and been a real second voice to my concerts. After 30 years, the tanpura did suffer recently because of my own oversight. I was very upset and took it to Mr Lal not knowing what to do. He took a look at it and said he would have it ready in a week. It is back and ready to shine in full splendor in the upcoming season. Of course a large part of its success is also due to Rahul Krishna and Swarnarethas who have probably sturmmed it much more than me over the last 25 years! Thanks Mr Lal! My December Season schedule and all ticketing links are updated on sanjaysub.com In case links are not available, please contact the sabhas directly. In case you live outside Chennai and are unable to catch up with the concerts, Sanjay Sabha offers one concert every month online in my YouTube Channel. Join as a Patron member and get access to all the concerts that have been uploaded. Sanjay Sabha is now in Season 03 and 35 concerts are available. youtube.com/sanjaysubmusic… Thamizhum Naanum is back with its 6th edition at the Music Academy on dec 10th. Book your tickets on thamizhumnaanum.com Happy Music Season!

Looking to hire a Research Asst Prof in the coming months. Have two new R01s on therapeutics for PAH and valve disease starting. Please retweet (or reX) or reach out to me directly.

🆕PhD position available: Articular cartilage mechanobiology in Montpellier, France. 3-year program starting in Sept 2023. #PhD #Mechanobiology #Articular #Cartilage #umontpellier 👇👇 lmgc.umontpellier.fr/wp-content/upl… or drive.google.com/file/d/1qSICLY…

Latest work from Jay Humphrey's lab @YaleSEAS published in @JBiomech investigates #biomechanics of autologous umbilical vessels as alternatives to synthetic #BTTshunt, suggesting that umbilical vein > umbilical artery. Read more! ow.ly/O2ma50Nfsib ow.ly/18cr50Nfsia

Our paper comparing biomechanics of murine #umbilical vessels, #subclavian and #pulmonary artery is now published in @JBiomech. We also report data related to #development and #decell. #CHD #singleventricle #BTShunt #surgery: doi.org/10.1016/j.jbio…

@SanandanaYS @PrasunNagar why don't you tag him on these tweets? Don't worry he won't block you, every time he tries to block he gets bowled

@PrasunNagar You'll know him if stays in the crease for atleast 15 mins...

@jjainschigg #Diwali cleaning?

What a great day! Cleaned two bathrooms, kitchen, decluttered, dusted, polished, vacuumed and washed floors (four floors!), plus laundry. Bagged giveaway stuff. My God, I am a paragon of domestic busy-bee-ism.

@SanandanaYS @CricCrazyJohns 12 tests per year reminds me of monthly test at school! We should also have 2 exams(mid term and final) per year - 6 ODIs (against 6 different teams) in 1 week.

@CricCrazyJohns 38 Tests in 4 years is too less, They should be playing 12-13 tests a year

India will be playing 38 Tests (20 Home & 18 away), 42 ODI (21 Home & 21 away), 61 T20I (31 Home & 30 away) in 2023-27 cycle. (Source - The Indian Express)

Come join the Stanford Cardiovascular Institute Early Career Symposium on October 17th, 9 AM - 5 PM PT: We have great speakers, including a Biomechanics session featuring @abhay_br , @kyokoyoshida , and Sandra Loerakker! Registration is free: med.stanford.edu/cvi/events/202…

External wrap helps vein graft adaptation. Our experimental study in @ActaBio:doi.org/10.1016/j.actb… w/ H.Wang @alexawnorowski researchers @YaleBme @StanfordCVI @UCSDHealth; @Nazish_Sayed J.Boyd @StanfordCTSurg @MarsdenStanford

@vikasnavaratna You should cut down on coffee, better - stop drinking it, completely.

Did I make an itemized family expenditure chart yesterday? I may have. Did it have bar graphs, pie charts, & tables? You bet your ass it did. Is it wise to spend ~5% of your family earnings on just coffee? Perhaps not. Will we cut down on it? You bet your ass we won't.