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Description
Multiscale modeling has become an essential tool for understanding complex biological systems, where processes at the cellular or subcellular level influence tissue- and organ-scale behavior. This minisymposium brings together researchers working on mathematical, computational, and biophysical approaches to bridge scales in bioelectric phenomena. Topics of interest include homogenization techniques, effective medium models, electrical properties of tissues, and numerical methods for efficiently coupling micro- and macroscales. Applications span a wide range of systems, including electropermeabilization in heterogeneous tissues, where cell-level responses shape bulk tissue conductivity, and cardiac electrophysiology, where multiscale models link ionic currents in single cells to organ-level electrical activity and arrhythmia dynamics. The session aims to foster cross-disciplinary discussion on challenges in multiscale modeling, validation against experimental data, and integration of theoretical and computational methods. By highlighting both methodological advances and applied examples, this minisymposium seeks to promote collaboration between applied mathematicians, computational biologists, and experimental electrophysiologists, advancing predictive modeling in bioelectromagnetics and related fields.
