Engineering

Dr Eoin McEvoy

BE,PhD

Contact Details

Lecturer Above The Bar
E: EOIN.MCEVOY@nuigalway.ie

Biography

Research Career:

2020 - present: Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Biomedical Engineering, College of Science and Engineering, University of Galway

2019 - 2020: Postdoctoral Researcher: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

2018 - 2019: Postdoctoral Researcher: National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland

Dr Eóin McEvoy is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Galway. His research focuses primarily on computational cell/tissue mechanics and disease mechanobiology.

Research Interests: Computational cancer mechanobiology; Cellular contractility and adhesion; Mechanics of soft tissue; Biological thermodynamics; Growth and remodelling; Theoretical model development; Medical device design; Cardiovascular tissue modeling; Computational and experimental biomechanics; Finite element methods; Continuum mechanics.

Teaching: Biomedical Engineering Design II (BME3135); Finite Element Methods in Engineering II (BME5104); Engineering Analysis for Regulatory Approval (BME4103); Fundamentals of Engineering (EI140);

Research Interests

Computational cancer mechanobiology; Cellular contractility and adhesion; Mechanics of soft tissue; Biological thermodynamics; Growth and remodelling; Theoretical model development; Medical device design; Cardiovascular tissue modeling; Computational and experimental biomechanics; Finite element methods; Continuum mechanics.

Peer Reviewed Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2020)	'Influence of multi-axial dynamic constraint on cell alignment and contractility in engineered tissues' Reynolds, NH,McEvoy, E,Perez, JAP,Coleman, RJ,McGarry, JP (2020) 'Influence of multi-axial dynamic constraint on cell alignment and contractility in engineered tissues'. Journal Of The Mechanical Behavior Of Biomedical Materials, 112 [DOI] [Details]
	(2021)	'A thermodynamic transient cross-bridge model for prediction of contractility and remodelling of the ventricle' McEvoy, E,Wijns, W,McGarry, P (2021) 'A thermodynamic transient cross-bridge model for prediction of contractility and remodelling of the ventricle'. Journal Of The Mechanical Behavior Of Biomedical Materials, 113 [DOI] [Details]
	(2020)	'Gap Junctions Amplify Spatial Variations in Cell Volume in Proliferating Solid Tumors' McEvoy, Eoin and Han, Yulong and Guo, Ming and Shenoy, Vivek (2020) 'Gap Junctions Amplify Spatial Variations in Cell Volume in Proliferating Solid Tumors'. Nature Communications, 11 [DOI] [Details]
	(2020)	'A thermodynamic transient cross-bridge model for prediction of contractility and remodelling of the ventricle' Eóin McEvoy, William Wijns, Patrick McGarry (2020) 'A thermodynamic transient cross-bridge model for prediction of contractility and remodelling of the ventricle'. Journal Of Mechanical Behavior Of Biomedical Materials, [DOI] [Details]
	(2020)	'Influence of multi-axial dynamic constraint on cell alignment and contractility in engineered tissues' Reynolds, Noel H and McEvoy, Eoin and Panadero P\'erez (2020) 'Influence of multi-axial dynamic constraint on cell alignment and contractility in engineered tissues'. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 112 [DOI] [Details]
	(2019)	'Transient active force generation and stress fibre remodelling in cells under cyclic loading' McEvoy, E;Deshpande, VS;McGarry, P (2019) 'Transient active force generation and stress fibre remodelling in cells under cyclic loading'. Biomechanics And Modeling In Mechanobiology, 18 :921-937 [DOI] [Details]
	(2018)	'Thermodynamic Modeling of the Statistics of Cell Spreading on Ligand-Coated Elastic Substrates' McEvoy, E,Shishvan, SS,Deshpande, VS,McGarry, JP (2018) 'Thermodynamic Modeling of the Statistics of Cell Spreading on Ligand-Coated Elastic Substrates'. Biophysical journal, 115 :2451-2460 [DOI] [Details]
	(2018)	'Compressibility and Anisotropy of the Ventricular Myocardium: Experimental Analysis and Microstructural Modeling' McEvoy E;Holzapfel GA;McGarry P; (2018) 'Compressibility and Anisotropy of the Ventricular Myocardium: Experimental Analysis and Microstructural Modeling'. Journal Of Biomechanical Engineering-Transactions Of The Asme, 140 (8) [DOI] [Details]
	(2017)	'Free energy analysis of cell spreading' McEvoy, E,Deshpande, VS,McGarry, P (2017) 'Free energy analysis of cell spreading'. Journal Of The Mechanical Behavior Of Biomedical Materials, 74 :283-295 [DOI] [Details]

Conference Publications

	Year	Publication
	(2019)	*Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference (SB3C)* McEvoy, E., McGarry, J.P. (2019) A thermodynamically motivated cross-bridge cycling framework to predict myofibril remodeling under conditions associated with LV hypertrophy Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference (SB3C) [Details]
	(2019)	*Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference (SB3C)* Coleman, R., McEvoy, E., McGarry, J.P. (2019) Contractility Modelling Towards Predicting Eccentric Hypertrophy and Fibre Alignment Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference (SB3C) [Details]
	(2018)	*10th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC)* McEvoy, E., Deshpande, V.S., McGarry, J.P., (2018) Thermodynamics of Cell Spreading on Ligand Coated Elastic Substrates 10th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC) [Details]
	(2018)	*10th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC)* McEvoy, E., Holzapfel, G.A., McGarry, J.P., (2018) A micro-structural model of the ventricular myocardium 10th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC) [Details]
	(2018)	*8th World Congress of Biomechanics (WCB)* McEvoy, E., Shishvan, S.S., Deshpande, V.S., McGarry, J.P., (2018) A thermodynamic framework for cell spreading and dynamic contractility 8th World Congress of Biomechanics (WCB) [Details]
	(2018)	*8th World Congress of Biomechanics (WCB)* O'Connor, C., McEvoy, E., McGarry, J.P., (2018) A Numerical Method for the Implementation of Discrete Fibre Dispersion 8th World Congress of Biomechanics (WCB) [Details]
	(2017)	*Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference (SB3C)* McEvoy, E.; Shishvan, S.S.; McGarry, J.P.; Deshpande, V.S. (2017) A Thermodynamic Statistical Mechanics Model to Investigate the Influence of Ligand Density and Substrate Stiffness on Cell Spreading Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference (SB3C) Arizona, USA, [Details]
	(2017)	*Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference (SB3C)* O’Connor, C.A.; Nolan, D.R.; McEvoy, E.; McGarry, J.P. (2017) Three Part Hyperelastic Law for Anisotropic Aortic Tissue: Model Development and Experimental Validation Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference (SB3C) Arizona, USA, [Details]
	(2017)	*Summer Biomechanics,Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference (SB3C)* Reynolds, N.; McEvoy, E.; Deshpande, V.S.; McGarry, J.P. (2017) A continuum finite element model predicting cell motility Summer Biomechanics,Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference (SB3C) Arizona, USA, [Details]
	(2017)	*Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference (SB3C)* Reynolds, N., McEvoy, E., Despande, V.S., McGarry, J.P., (2017) Cell Force Generation in Biaxially and Uniaxially Loaded Tissues Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering and Biotransport Conference (SB3C) [Details]
	(2017)	*International Conference of Biomedical Technology (ECCOMAS)* McEvoy, E., Shishvan, S.S., Deshpande, V.S., McGarry, J.P., (2017) Modelling cell-substrate interaction to investigate the influence of collagen density and stiffness on cell spreading International Conference of Biomedical Technology (ECCOMAS) [Details]
	(2016)	*Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference (SB3C)* McEvoy, E.; Ristori, T.; Loerakker, S.; Deshpande, V.S.; McGarry, J.P. (2016) Analysis of Cell Spreading on Micropatterned Substrates Using a Thermodynamically Consistent Non-Local Active Model Summer Biomechanics, Bioengineering, and Biotransport Conference (SB3C) National Harbor, MA, USA, [Details]
	(2016)	*19th Sir Bernard Crossland Symposium* McEvoy, E.; McGarry, J.P. (2016) Remodelling of Cardiac Cells and Tissue: A Multi-Scale Framework 19th Sir Bernard Crossland Symposium Belfast, Northern Ireland, [Details]
	(2015)	*Irish Mechanics Society (IMS) and the Irish Society for Scientific Engineering & Computation (ISSEC)* McEvoy, E.; Deshpande, V.S.; McGarry, J.P. (2015) Anisotropy, Compressibility, and Contractility of the Myocardial Tissue Irish Mechanics Society (IMS) and the Irish Society for Scientific Engineering & Computation (ISSEC) Dublin, Ireland, [Details]

Other Journals

	Year	Publication
	(2020)	'Investigation of cell nucleus heterogeneity' Noel Reynolds, Eoin McEvoy, Soham Ghosh, Juan Alberto Panadero Pérez, Corey P. Neu, Patrick McGarry (2020) 'Investigation of cell nucleus heterogeneity' BioRxiv - Biology Preprint Server, . [DOI] [Details]