Guy M. Genin email: gmg@me.wustl.edu Jolley Hall 317 Phone: +1 (314) 935-5660 FAX: +1 (314) 935-4014 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Washington University Campus Box 1185 St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

  Guy M. Genin
  Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Joined 1999)

• Ph.D., Solid Mechanics, Harvard University, 1996
• S.M., Applied Mechanics, Harvard University, 1993
• M.S., Engineering Science, Case Western Reserve University, 1992
• B.S.E., Civil Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 1990

 Background:

• Post-Doctoral Researcher, Cambridge University, 1996-1998
• Post-Doctoral Researcher, Brown University, 1998-1999

 Research Interests:

• Cellular mechanics
  
  • Biologically-derived artificial tissues as mechanical testing environments for cells
  • Mechano-electric feedback and arrhythmia in the human heart
  • Mechanical functioning of sub-cellular components
  
  
• Attachment of dissimilar tissues in nature
  
  • Cellular, mineral, and tissue mechanics at the tendon-to-bone interface, or "insertion"
  
  
• Mechanics of Mild Brain Injury
  
  • Strain localization and the mechanical response of the brain to skull acceleration

 Post-Doctoral and Graduate Research Associates:

• Saif Al-Saari
• Sheng-Lin "Elvis" Lee
• Adam Nathan
• Arash Sabet

 Selected Recent Publications:

• A. Nekouzadeh, G.M. Genin, P.V. Bayly, E.L. Elson (2005). "Wave Motion in Relaxation-Testing of Nonlinear Elastic Media," Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A 461(2058), p. 1599-1626.
  
  
• J.P. Marquez, G.M. Genin, G.I. Zahalak, E.L. Elson (2005). "Thin Bio-artificial Tissues in Plane Stress: the Relationship between Cell and Tissue Strain, and an Improved Constitutive Model," Biophysical Journal 88(2), p. 765-777.
  
  
• J.P. Marquez, G.M. Genin, G.I. Zahalak, E.L. Elson (2005). "The Relationship between Cell and Tissue Strain in Three-dimensional Bio-artificial Tissues," Biophysical Journal 88(2), p. 778-789.
  
  
• Bayly PV, Cohen TS, Ajo D, Leuthardt E, Genin GM (2005). "Acceleration-induced deformation of the human brain," Journal of Neurotrauma, 22(8), p. 845-56.
  
  
• P. G. Massouros and G.M. Genin (2005). "Algebraic inversion of the Laplace transform," Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 50(13), p. 179-185.
  
  
• Marquez JP, Genin GM, Elson EL (2006). "On the application of strain factors for approximation of the contribution of anisotropic cells to the mechanics of a tissue construct," Journal of Biomechanics, 39(11), p. 2145-51.
  
  
• Thomopoulos S, Marquez JP, Weinberger B, Birman V, Genin GM (2006). "Collagen fiber orientation at the tendon to bone insertion and its influence on stress concentrations," Journal of Biomechanics, 39(10), p. 1842-51.
  
  
• Bayly PV, Black EE, Pedersen RC, Genin GM (2006). "In vivo imaging of rapid deformation and strain in an animal model of traumatic brain injury." Journal of Biomechanics, 39(6), p. 1086-95.
  
  

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