Amit Pathak Ph.D. Candidate Department of Mechanical Engineering University of California, Santa Barbara ph. (805) 893.5240 amitp[at]engineering.ucsb.edu

Education

• Ph.D. candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering , Sep 2003 - expected Aug 2008
University of California, Santa Barbara
Working thesis title: "Modeling bio-chemo-mechanical behavior of cells and tissues"
Advanced to Candidacy - December 2005.
Advisor: Prof. Robert M. McMeeking
Co-advisors: Prof. V.S. Deshpande and Prof. A.G. Evans

• B.Tech. & M.Tech., Aug 2002
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Specialization: Computer-Aided-Design and Automation

Research Interests

Publications

• Journal Cover: Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Vol. 5, 507-524. [cover]
• Pathak, A. & McMeeking, R.M., 2008. "Three-dimensional finite element simulations of ferroelectric polycrystals under electrical and mechanical loading." Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol. 56, 663-683. [link]
• Pathak, A., Deshpande, V.S., McMeeking, R.M. & Evans, A.G., 2008. "The simulation of stress fibre and focal adhesion development in cells on patterned substrates." Journal of the Royal Society Interface, Vol. 5, 507-524. [link]
• Pathak, A., Deshpande, V.S., McMeeking, R.M. & Evans, A.G., 2008. "A model for mechanotransduction in cells: interlinked mechanism for the signal, focal adhesion and stress fiber development." (manuscript in preparation)
• Pathak, A., Deshpande, V.S., McMeeking, R.M. & Evans, A.G., 2008. "Modeling cell response on substrates of variable stiffness." (manuscript in preparation)
• Pathak, A., McGarry, J.P., Deshpande, V.S., McMeeking, R.M. & Evans, A.G., 2008. "Cell cytoskeleton as a discrete network of stress fibers." (manuscript in preparation)
• Legant, W.R., Pathak, A., Chen, C., McMeeking, R.M. et al., 2008. "Measuring tissue contractility in micro-patterned 3-D cultures." (work in progress)

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