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- CARD (Cardiovascular Modelling)
- CDEV (Cell and Developmental Biology)
- ECOP (Population Dynamics & Ecology)
- EDUC (Education)
- IMMU (Immunobiology and Infection)
- MEPI (Mathematical Epidemiology)
- MFBM (Methods for Biological Modeling)
- NEUR (Mathematical Neuroscience)
- ONCO (Mathematical Oncology)
- OTHE (Other / Misc.)
CARD-01: Digital Twins in Cardiac Electrophysiology
Organized by: Ning Wei (Purdue University )
- Igor Vorobyov (University of California Davis) "Digital twins for cardiac safety pharmacology and neuromodulation"
- KARLI KAE GILLETTE (University of Utah) "The generation of cardiac digital twins of whole-heart electrophysiology during normal sinus rhythm"
- Patrick Boyle (University of Washington) " The Promise and Potential Peril of Digital Twins in Cardiac Electrophysiology"
- Trine Krogh-Madsen (Cornell University) "Population modeling to explain heterogeneity and immaturity of single stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes"
CARD-02: Novel multiscale and multisystem approaches to cardiovascular modeling and simulation (Part 1)
Organized by: Mitchel J. Colebank (University of South Carolina), Vijay Rajagopal, The University of Melbourne, Australia
- Mitchel J. Colebank (University of South Carolina) "“Effects of vasomotor tone on systemic vascular wave reflections”"
- Alyssa Taylor-Lapole (Rice University) "A discontinuous Galerkin approximation for a 3D-1D advection-diffusion model to investigate liver perfusion."
- Stephen Payne (National Taiwan University & University of Oxford) "Multiscale models of cerebral blood flow and metabolism"
- Karin Leiderman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) "A discrete platelet-bonding model for simulating platelet aggregation under flow"
- Noelia Grande Gutiérrez (Carnegie Mellon University) "Multiscale modeling of thrombosis formation"
- Mette Olufsen (North Carolina State University) "An uncertainty aware framework for generating vascular networks from imaging"
- Pim Oomen (University of California, Irvine) "Systems biology modeling of sex hormone-driven cardiac remodeling"
- Pak-Wing Fok (University of Delaware) "Effect of medial arterial calcification on hemodynamics: mechanisms and insights"
CARD-03: Novel multiscale and multisystem approaches to cardiovascular modeling and simulation (Part 2)
Organized by: Mitchel J. Colebank (University of South Carolina, United States), Vijay Rajagopal, The University of Melbourne
- Ishraq Ahmed (University of Sydney, Australia) "Free cholesterol toxicity and impaired cell recycling in a lipid-structured model of atherosclerosis"
- Liam Murray (University of Melbourne, Australia) "Myofibril networks create torsion during contraction in sheep cardiomyocytes"
- Simon-Walker Samuel, (University College London, United Kingdom) "Using physics-informed deep generative learning to model blood flow in the retina"
- Pradeep Keshavanarayanan, (University College London, United Kingdom) "Combination of shear stress and hydrostatic pressure dictates the temporal behaviour of vasculature"
- Laura Ellwein-Fix, (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA) "A closed-loop system-level model of cerebrovascular reactivity"
- Sara Johnson (University of Puget Sound) "Modeling Microglial Response to MCAO-Induced Ischemic Stroke"
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CDEV-01: Mathematical and computational ophthalmology: insights from data-driven multiscale modelling of the eye
Organized by: Laura Wadkin (Newcastle University), Patrick Parkinson (Newcastle University)
- Patrick Parkinson (Newcastle University) "Optimising stem cell therapies for corneal damage: insights from clinical trial image analysis and mathematical modelling"
- Katie Bentley (Francis Crick Institute) "Integrating agent-based modelling with patient OCT-A imaging to understand diabetic retinopathy vascular dynamics"
- Joel Vanin (Indiana University Bloomington) "An Agent-Based Computational Framework for Simulating Corneal Biology: A Platform for Multi-Scale Investigation of Homeostasis and Wound Healing"
- Patricia Lamirande (University of Oxford) "A mean first passage time approach to quantify ocular drug delivery and residence time"
CDEV-02: Mechanistic modeling from inter- to intra-cellular phenomena
Organized by: Andreas Buttenschoen (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Calina Copos (Northeastern University)
- Eric Cytrynbaum (University of British Columbia) "Regulation of root division and elongation zones in plant development by the CLASP protein"
- Mariya Savinov (NYU) "TBA"
- Wei Wang (John's Hopkins University) "Statistics of fracture in collective cell migration"
- Jupiter Algorta (University of British Columbia) "Modelling optogenetic experiments: Evidence for Rac inhibitor"
CDEV-03: From data to mechanisms: advancement in modeling in cell and developmental biology
Organized by: Keisha Cook, Anna Nelson (Clemson University), Alessandra Bonfanti (Politecnico di Milano) Giulia Celora (University of Oxford) Kelsey Gasior (University of Notre Dame) Qixuan Wang (University of California, Riverside)
- Khanh Dao Duc (University of British Columbia) "Quantifying the organization and dynamics of cell morphology in Mycobacteria from Long-Term Time-Lapse Atomic Force Microscopy"
- Peijie Zhou (Peking University) "Towards AI Virtual Cell Through Dynamical Generative Modeling of Single-cell Omics Data"
- Amanda Alexander (University of Houston) "Persistence of plasmid DNA in spatially organized bacterial populations"
- Grace McLaughlin (UNC Chapel Hill) "Modeling Asynchronous Nuclear Division in Fungal Cells"
- Anna Nelson (University of New Mexico) "Modeling mechanisms of microtubule dynamics in living neurons"
- Merlin Pelz (University of Minnesota) "Effect of compartmentalization: synchronization and symmetry-breaking of diffusively coupled cells in 2-D and 3-D"
- Ying Zhang (Northeastern University) "Why do cells migrate collectively in different modes?"
- Sharon Lubkin (North Carolina State University) "Differential growth in stomach bending: a continuum approach"
CDEV-04: The unexpected consequences of stochasticity in cell biology
Organized by: James Holehouse (The Santa Fe Institute), Kaan Öcal (University of Melbourne) and Augustinas Sukys (University of Melbourne)
- Lucy Ham (University of Melbourne) "How cell-to-cell communication and spatial gene regulatory networks govern multicellular organization and pattern formation."
- Anish Pandya (UT Austin) "Causation vs. correlation in modelling the life of mRNA, from transcription to degradation."
- Arthur Genthon (MPI for the Physics of Complex Systems) "How cell populations exploit variations in cell size and growth rate to proliferate."
- Daniel Muratore (The Santa Fe Institute) "Stochastic macromolecular dynamics explain biogeographic patterns in the Pacific Ocean."
CDEV-05: Protein Condensates in the Cell Nucleus
Organized by: Tharana Yosprakob (University of Alberta)
- Kelsey Gasior (Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame) "Untangling molecular interactions underlying intracellular condensate properties"
- Michael Hendzel (Departments of Oncology and Cell Biology, University of Alberta) "Material states and their functions in genome organization and regulation"
- Justin Knechtel (Department of Oncology, University of Alberta) "Single molecule tracking of KMT5C in heterochromatin compartments"
- Tharana Yosprakob (Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta) "Spatial organization and dynamicsof nuclear proteins"
CDEV-06: Modeling the Role of Geometry and Topology in Shaping Cell Behavior, Function, and Tissue Patterns
Organized by: Fabian Spill (University of Birmingham), Anotida Madzvamuse, University of British Columbia
- Alex Grigas (Syracuse University) "Modeling fluidity in stellate mesenchymal tissues"
- Sharon Minsuk (Indiana University) "The role of embryo, tissue, and cell shape in morphogenesis: modeling the cellular dynamics of tissue deformation"
- Margherita De Marzio (Harvard Medical School) "Understanding the Role of Surface Curvature on Epithelial Plasticity"
- Padmini Rangamani (UCSD) "Nanoscale curvature of the plasma membrane regulates mechanoadaptation through nuclear deformation and rupture"
- Gulsemay Yigit (Bahçeşehir University) "Analysis of reaction-diffusion systems in a bilayer region."
- Maryam Parvizi (University of Birmingham) "A phase field model for organelle dynamics"
- Stephanie Portet (University of Manitoba) "Modeling of intermediate filaments"
- Vijay Rajagopal (University of Melbourne) "Spatial Organisation in muscle cells affects calcium signalling, metabolism and cell mechanics"
CDEV-07: Modeling cell migration at multiple scales
Organized by: Jared Barber (Indiana University Indianapolis), Luoding Zhu
- Anotida Madzavamuse "A mechanobiochemical model for 3D single cell migration"
- Calina Copos "Breakdown of the Scallop theorem in confined single cell locomotion"
- Emiliano Perez Ipina "Cell motility self-regulated by secreted footprints"
- Yuehui Xu "Effects of the cytoskeleton on cell migration"
- Yangjin Kim "Mathematical modeling of glioma cell migration on blood vessels via Cl- chanel-mediated cell deformation and biophysical interaction with astrocytes"
- Sebastian Aland "How cell surface processes and patterns drive how cells choose their travel direction in channels"
- Shubhadeep Sadhukhan "Modelling lamellipodia-driven single-cell migration and interaction with external barriers"
- Jianda Du "The Effect of Curvature in Mathematical Models of Cell Migration"
CDEV-08: Agent-based modelling of cell cytoskeletal phenomena
Organized by: Eric Cytrynbaum (University of British Columbia), Tim Tian (University of British Columbia)
- Hannah Scanlon (Duke University) "Mechanisms of Microtubule Polarity Regulation in Neurons"
- Calina Copos (Northeastern University) "Molecular underpinnings of a biphasic force response during cell stretching"
- Tim Tian (University of British Columbia) "Organization of Plant Cortical Microtubules"
- Taeyoon Kim (Purdue University) "Reconstituting the Mechanical and Dynamic Behaviors of the Actin Cytoskeleton"
ECOP-01: Mathematical Models of Biofilm Processes
Organized by: Hermann Eberl (University of Guelph), John Ward
- John Ward (Loughborough University, UK) "An analysis of large time solutions in biofilm models of Wanner-Gujer type"
- Rachana Manadal (University of Guelph, Canada) "Modelling and simulation of biofilm growth in a counter-diffusion system, coupled with biozone formation in the aqueous phase by chemotactic bacteria"
- Blessing Emerenini (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) "Modeling Biofilm Induced Corrosion Inhibition - what do we know?"
- Maria Rosaria Mattei (University of Naples, Federico II, Italy) "A modeling and simulation study of horizontal gene transfer in biofilms"
ECOP-02: Advances in Spatial Ecological and Epidemiological Modeling and Analysis
Organized by: Daozhou Gao (Cleveland State University), Xingfu Zou, University of Western Ontario
- Carolin Grumbach (Osnabrück University) "Allee pits in metapopulations: When increasing dispersal can backfire"
- Yun Kang (Arizona State University) "The complex dynamics of a diffusive prey–predator model with an Allee effect in prey"
- Adrian Lam (Ohio State University) "A toxicant-taxis model with inhomogeneous robin boundary conditions"
- Yijun Lou (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) "Population dynamics with temporal and spatial heterogeneity: A quotient space approach"
- Rachidi Salako (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) "On the dynamics of a two-stage structured diffusive population model"
- Sebastian Schreiber (UC Davis) "Pathogen persistence: Complex lifecycles in variable environments"
- Wenxian Shen (Auburn University) "Front propagation dynamics in Fisher KPP equations on unbounded star graphs"
- Xiao-Qiang Zhao (Memorial University of Newfoundland) "Spatial dynamics of a partially degenerate reaction-diffusion system with pair formation"
ECOP-03: Eco-evolutionary Dynamics of Bacteriophage
Organized by: Joshua S. Weitz (University of Maryland, Department of Biology & Physics and U of Maryland Institute for Health Computing), Asher Leeks, University of British Columbia, Department of Zoology
- Asher Leeks (Assistant Professor, UBC, Zoology) "Phage-phage interactions and the window of sociality"
- Antoni Luque (Associate Professor, U of Miami, Biology and Physics) "Tipping points in the interaction of phage and bacteria in natural microbiomes"
- Jaye Sudweeks (PhD candidate, Department of Mathematics, UBC) "Ecological feedback through host density leads to the maintenance of cooperation in bacteriophage phi6"
- Nanami Kubota (PhD candidate, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh) "Cheater phages drive bacterial and phage populations to lower fitness"
ECOP-04: Nonlinearity and Nonlocality: Complex Dynamics in Models of Animal Movement
Organized by: Alex Safsten (University of Maryland), Abba Gumel
- Chris Cosner (University of Miami) "The ideal free distribution in a predator-system"
- Thomas Hillen (University of Alberta) "Pattern formation in non-local models of species interactions"
- Mark Lewis (University of Victoria) "TBD (Mark has confirmed he can speak, but has not yet provided a title)"
- Rebecca Tyson (University of British Columbia Okanagan) "Memory-guided foraging: The importance of learning and forgetting"
ECOP-05: Celebrating 60 Years of Excellence: Honoring Yang Kuang’s Contributions to Mathematical Biology (Part 1)
Organized by: Tin Phan (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Yun Kang (Arizona State University); Tracy Stepien (University of Florida)
- Jim Cushing (University of Arizona) "TBD"
- Angela Peace (Texas Tech University) "Growth in the face of multiple constraints"
- Clay Prater (University of Arkansas) "I get by with a little help from my friends: Adventures in stoichiometric modeling of a mathematically challenged empirical ecologist"
- Rebecca Everett (Haverford University) "Stoichiometric ontogenetic development influences population dynamics: Stage-structured model under nutrient limitations"
ECOP-06: Celebrating 60 Years of Excellence: Honoring Yang Kuang’s Contributions to Mathematical Biology (Part 2)
Organized by: Tin Phan (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Yun Kang (Arizona State University); Tracy Stepien (University of Florida)
- Irakli Loladze (Bryan College of Health Sciences) "Stoichiometric Symbiosis: How Nitrogen and Phosphorus Shape the Biochemistry of Information Processing"
- Jiaxu Li (University of Louisville) "A Novel Framework for Modeling Delay Impacts of Intermittent Impulsive Interventions in Biological Systems"
- Jianhong Wu (York University) "Applied 'Delay Differential Equations' of Kuang in Structured Populations"
- Bingtuan Li (University of Louisville) "Invasion speeds for population models with Allee effects"
ECOP-07: Coupled human and natural systems
Organized by: Frank M. Hilker (Osnabrück University), Rebecca C. Tyson (University of British Columbia Okanagan)
- Brian Beckage (University of Vermont, USA) "Why We Do What We Do: A Mathematical Framework for Modeling Human Behavior in Coupled Human-Environmental Systems"
- Jonas Wahl (Osnabrück University, Germany) "Evolutionary dynamics of constant and proportional harvest strategies in a coupled human-environment system with dynamic resources"
- Amrita Punnavajhala (University of Waterloo, Canada) "Region-level mitigation in a coupled social-climate model"
- Christina Cobbold (University of Glasgow, UK) "Mathematics for Rewilding"
ECOP-08: Exploring Heterogeneity in Mathematical Models: Methods, Applications, and Insights (Part 1)
Organized by: Zhisheng Shuai (University of Central Florida), Junping Shi, College of William & Mary; Yixiang Wu, Middle Tennessee State University
- Christopher Heggerud (University of California, Davis) "The many mechanisms behind regime shifts and tools to predict them"
- Sameras Pal (University of Kalyani, India) "The impact of microbial diseases of corals under macroalgal toxicity, overfishing and rising sea surface temperature (SST)"
- Tao Feng (University of Alberta) "Modeling Foraging Dynamics of Social Insects in Stochastic Environments"
- Xiunan Wang (University of Tennessee Chattanooga) "Modeling Hantavirus transmission under the impact of land use change"
- Amy Veprauskas (University of Louisiana at Lafayette) "Examining the impact of periodicity on population dynamics: with applications to agroecosystems and conservation science"
- Tingting Tang (San Diego State University ) "Exploring the impact of household size on COVID-19 with coupled SEAIR model"
- Han Lu (University of Alberta) "Several classes of host-pathogen models in spatially heterogeneous environments"
- Yixiang Wu (Middle Tennessee State University) "Analysis of a parabolic-hyperbolic hybrid population model: an integrated semigroup approach"
ECOP-09: Exploring Heterogeneity in Mathematical Models: Methods, Applications, and Insights (Part 2)
Organized by: Zhisheng Shuai (University of Central Florida), Junping Shi, College of William & Mary; Yixiang Wu, Middle Tennessee State University
- Zhian Wang (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) "Global Dynamics of a Periodic Diffusive Consumer-Resource Model: Classification and Asymptotics"
- Yuanwei Qi (University of Central Florida) "Traveling solutions in chemical reaction models"
- Seoyun Choe (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) "Mathematical Modeling and Investigation of Malaria Prevalence Changes with Vaccination"
- Chris Cosner (University of Miami) "TBA"
ECOP-10: Ecological aspects of vector-borne disease
Organized by: Abigail Barlow (The University of Bath), n/a
- Abigail Barlow (The University of Bath) "Integrated tick management strategies in fragmented peridomestic environments"
- Folashade B. Agusto (The University of Kansas) "Modelling the effect of lethal and non-lethal predation on the dynamics of ticks and tick-borne ehrlichiosis disease"
- Christina Cobbold (The University of Glasgow) "Modelling the impacts of adult mosquito age-structure on vector-borne disease risk"
- Kyle Dahlin (Virginia Tech) "Mechanistically modelling the dynamics of mosquito biting, accounting for ecological factors driving contact rates"
ECOP-11: Nonlocal Models: Progress and Challenges in Analysis, Applications and Numerics
Organized by: Valeria GIunta (Swansea University), Yurij Salmaniw - University of Oxford
- Raluca Eftimie (Université de Franche-Comté, France) "Nonlocal mathematical models for normal and abnormal wound healing"
- Junping Shi (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA) "Biological Aggregations from Spatial Memory and Nonlocal Advection"
- Jun Jewell (University of Oxford) "From Chirality to Chase-and-Run: Nonlocal Mechanisms Driving Pattern Formation in Biology"
- Sara Bernardi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) "Emergent Chase-and-Run: How Nonlocal Interaction Ranges Drive Collective Motion"
ECOP-12: Applications of Evolutionary Game Theory and Related Frameworks: From Cells to Societies
Organized by: Daniel Cooney (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Olivia Chu (Bryn Mawr College) and Alex McAvoy (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Jakub Svoboda (IST Austria) " Density amplifiers of cooperation for spatial games"
- Haihui Cheng (University of Alberta) "Evolution of Cooperation in Spatio-Temporal Evolutionary Games with Public Goods Feedback"
- Jeremy Van Cleve (University of Kentucky) "Linked selection and the evolution of altruism in family‐structured populations”"
- Folashade Agusto (University of Kansas) "Exploring the Interplay Between COVID-19 and Drug Overdose Mortality"
- Mari Kawakatsu (University of Pennsylvania) "A mechanistic model of gossip, reputations, and cooperation"
- Garrett Mitchener (College of Charleston) "A Simulation approach to the evolution of communication"
- Emerson Arehart (Princeton University) "A minimal model of learning: quantifying the cost and benefit of learning in changing environments"
- Alex McAvoy (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) "The coalescent in finite populations with arbitrary, fixed structure"
ECOP-13: Information theory, fitness, and semantics in biological information processing
Organized by: Andrew Eckford (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University, Toronto)
- Prof. Massimiliano Pierobon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln "Fitness value of subjective information for living organism"
- Dr. Alexander Moffett, Northeastern University "Minimal informational requirements for fitness"
- Prof. Andrew W. Eckford, York University "Natural information processing and single-letter codes"
- Prof. Peter J. Thomas, Case Western Reserve University "Capacity of Poisson-type signal transduction channels"
ECOP-14: How environmental changes can impact spatial growth and spread: From the small to large scale
Organized by: Diana White (Clarkson University)
- Jody Reimer (Utah) "Population and community dynamics of sea ice ecosystems"
- Susan Bailey "Modeling the impacts of spatial structure on (bacteria) population dynamics"
- Diana White "Modeling Growth of Invasive Watermilfoil under differing lake conditions"
- Anna Hargreaves "local adaptation and dispersal evolution at range edges in response to global8 change"
IMMU-01: New approaches to infectious disease immunity for model-informed vaccine development
Organized by: Terry Easlick (Univeristé de Montréal/Centre de recherche Azrieli du CHU Sainte-Justine), Morgan Craig, Univeristé de Montréal/Centre de recherche Azrieli du CHU Sainte-Justine
- Jane Heffernan (York University) "The Malaria Parasite Life-Cycle"
- Cailan Jeynes-Smith (University of Tennessee Health Science Centre) "Cytokine Dynamics during Influenza Infection"
- Jonah Hall (University of British Columbia/BC Children's Hospital Research Institute) "Optimization of Pertussis Immunization Using Mathematical Modeling"
- Solène Hegarty-Cremer (Univeristé de Montréal/Centre de recherche Azrieli du CHU Sainte-Justine) "Analysing Immune Dysregulation in Vitamin A Deficient Mice During Influenza A Infection"
- Mélanie Prague (Université de Bordeaux/INRIA) "Contribution of Intra-Host Modeling of pre-clinical studies to Vaccine Development"
- Stanca M. Ciupe (Virginia Tech) "Immune system onset and reaction against viral diseases"
- Elizabeth Amona (Virginia Commonwealth University) "Studying Disease Reinfection Rates, Vaccine Efficacy and Timing of Vaccine Rollout in the Context of Infectious Diseases"
- Terry Daniel Easlick (Unviersité de Montréal/Univeristé de Montréal/Centre de recherche Azrieli du CHU Sainte-Justine) "Stochastic Methods for modelling antigen-specific cell-mediated immune response"
IMMU-02: In host Viral Dynamics
Organized by: Esteban A. Hernandez-Vargas (University of Idaho), Veronika Zarnitsyna, Emory University
- Joshua T Schiffer "Molnupiravir clinical trial simulation suggests that polymerase chain reaction underestimates antiviral potency against SARS-CoV-2"
- Time-varying viral production in virus dynamics models "Hana Dobrovolny"
- Lars Kaderali "A quantitative, dynamic model of the intracellular SARS-CoV-2 replication"
- Lubna Pinky "Modeling viral-viral coinfections of the respiratory tract"
IMMU-03: Immune Responses to Viral Infections and Vaccines
Organized by: Veronika I. Zarnitsyna (Emory University), Esteban Hernandez Vargas, University of Idaho
- Carmen Molina-Paris (LANL) "Quantification of heterogeneity in human CD8+ T cell responses to vaccine antigens: an HLA-guided perspective"
- Jane Marie Heffernan (York University) "COVID-19 Vaccination in HIV+ Individuals"
- Jason Edward Shoemaker (University of Pittsburgh) "Understanding sex differences in lung immunity using mathematical modeling"
- Veronika Zarnitsyna (Emory University) "Challenges in Evaluating Vaccine-Induced Protection Against Severe Disease"
- Grant Lythe (University of Leeds, UK) "Quantifying T cell cross-reactivity"
- Elissa Schwartz (Washington State Univeristy) "From parameter estimation to vaccine strategies"
- Alexis Erich Almocera (University of the Philippines Mindanao) "Hopf bifurcations of the COVID-19 with B cell model"
- Reagan Johnson (Brigham Young University) "Innate Immune Response during coinfections"
IMMU-04: Multiscale modelling in infectious diseases
Organized by: Dr Macauely Locke (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Dr Jasmine Kreig, Dr Aurelien Marc, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Dr Daniel Luque-Duque (Imperial College London) "Estimating the evolution of thymic output for $alphabeta$ and $gammadelta$ populations using TCR sequencing data."
- Professor Grant Lythe (University of Leeds) "Models of bursting and budding"
- Dr Sarafa Iyaniwura (Fred Hutch) "Understanding the dynamics of chronic Hepititis B virus during therapy"
- Dr Aurelien Marc (Los Alamos National Labratory) "Mechanistic modelling of clinical trials in HCV patients: evaluation of efficacy of Bemnifosbuvir and Ruzasvir"
- Dr Mason Lacy (Queensland University of Technology) "Individual-based and continuum models for understanding ex vivo T cell expansion"
- Dr Nathanael Hoze (IAME) "Integrating multiscale mathematical modeling and serology to unravel antibody dynamics and infection risk"
- Dr Paolo Bosetti (Pasteur institute) "Statistical and mathematical methods to characterize disease transmission from incomplete epidemiological data"
- Dr Quiyana Murphey (Virginia tech) "Antibody magnitude and durability following vaccination against SARS-CoV-2"
MEPI-01: Modeling Complex Dynamics in Biological Processes: From Cellular Mechanics to Population-Level Dynamics
Organized by: Folashade B. Agusto (University of Kansas), Chidozie Williams Chukwu
- Yonatan Ashenafi (Worcester Polytechnic Institute) "Capturing latent variables in acto-myosin dynamics"
- Blessing Emerenini (Rochester Institute of Technology) "Synergy of triple combination therapy for bacteria infection"
- Joan Ponce (University of Arizona) "P.vivax dynamics and DARC polymorphism frequency"
- Olusegun Otunuga (Augusta University) "Stochastic Modeling and Distribution of the Age of Tumor, Remission Time, and Tumor Growth Barriers in a Random Environment"
- Nourridine Siewe (Rochester Institute of Technology) "A mathematical model of obesity-induced type 2 diabetes and efficacy of anti-diabetic weight reducing drug"
- Sahil Chindal (Virginia Commonwealth University) "Neural Network Approaches for predicting Dengue Incidence in Dominican Republic"
- Daniel Cooney (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) "Modeling Cross-Scale Evolutionary Dynamics"
- Hewan Shemtaga (Auburn University) "Logistic Keller-Segel Chemotaxis models on compact graphs"
MEPI-02: Scenario Modeling to Inform Public Policymaking
Organized by: Zhilan Feng (National Science Foundation), John W Glasser, The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- John W Glasser (Centers for Disease Control) "Validating a SARS-CoV-2 transmission model"
- Wendy S Parker (Virginia Tech) "Testing the adequacy-for-purpose of dynamical models"
- Michael Li (University of Alberta) "Why do models calibrated with data need to be validated?"
- Betsy Varughese (Institute of Health Economics) "Real-time validation of model projections of seasonal influenza in Alberta"
- Junling Ma (University of Victoria) "Assessing the effectiveness of contact tracing during the early stage of a pandemic"
- Sen Pei (Columbia University) "Addressing the challenge of imperfect observation processes in epidemic modeling"
- Troy Day (Queens University) "How (not) to test models of the distribution of fitness effects of mutations"
- Zhilan Feng (National Science Foundation) "Panel Discussion: Mechanistic Models are Hypotheses"
MEPI-03: Recent advances in Epidemic theory
Organized by: Nir Gavish (Technion )
- Nir Gavish (Technion - IIT) "Optimal vaccination in seasonal epidemics"
- Kyeongah Nah (Busan Center for Medical Mathematics, National Institute for Mathematical Sciences) "Age-structured modeling of tuberculosis in South Korea and insights for national control strategies"
- Byul Nim Kim "Regional Contributions to COVID-19 Spread in South Korea: Insights from Reproduction Number Estimation and Mobility Data"
- Amit Huppert (School of Public Health, Tel Aviv University) "Modeling density dependence predation in microbial systems"
MEPI-04: Mathematical Modelling of Human Behaviour
Organized by: Iain Moyles (York University), Rebecca Tyson, University of British Columbia Okanagan
- Iain Moyles (York University) "Fear dynamics in a mathematical model of disease transmission"
- Md. Mijanur Rahman (University of British Columbia Okanagan) "Multi-wave dynamics in a multi-type S opinion-structured epidemic model"
- Bouchra Nasri (University of Montreal) "Mathematical Modelling of Pregnant Women Co-infected with HIV and ZIKV: A Case Study in Endemic Latin American and Caribbean Countries"
- Hugo Martin (Université de Rennes) "What drives people to self-isolate in time of pandemics? A modeling study for the co-evolution of epidemics and compliance with no memory"
- Monica Cojocaru (University of Guelph) "Modelling M-pox transmission in a MSM population with signal games"
- Bryce Morsky (Florida State University) "Vaccination and collective action under social norms"
- Azadeh Aghaeeyan (Brock University) "Characterizing the Decision-Making Strategies of Late COVID-19 Vaccine Adopters"
- Sarah Machado-Marques (York University) "Considering the effects of pair formation dynamics on mpox and HIV co-infection in the gbMSM community"
MEPI-05: Recent Advances in Dynamics of Human Behavior and Epidemics
Organized by: Abba Gumel (University of Maryland), Alex Safsten, Alice Oveson (both University of Maryland)
- Mallory Harris (University of Maryland) "Risk (Mis)estimation and Population Heterogeneity Shape"
- Jane Heffernan (York University) "Modelling Positive and Negative Behaviour Change"
- Claus Kadelka (Iowa State University) "Adaptive human behavior and delays in information availability autonomously modulate epidemic waves"
- Bryce Morsky (Florida State University) "Social Dynamics, Information Spread, and Behavioral Responses in Epidemic Modeling"
- Navid Ghaffarzadegan (Virginia Tech) "Data-informed behavioral epidemic modeling"
- Zitao He (University of Waterloo) "Homophily and Early Warning Signals: Bridging Behaviour-Disease Dynamics and Social Media Trends with Deep Learning"
- Alice Oveson (University of Maryland) "Exploring the Feedback Loop Between Behavior and Public Health"
- Binod Pant (Northeastern University) "Integrating human behavior data into epidemiological models"
MEPI-06: Delayed and structured dynamics of infection and epidemic models
Organized by: Tyler Cassidy (University of Leeds), Tony Humphries (McGill University)
- Andrea Pugliese (University of Trento) "An epidemic model with immunity waning and boosting, based on within-host dynamics"
- Wendy Wang (McGill University) "An immuno-epidemiological model with threshold delay"
- 3. San-Xing Wu (Lanzhou University, York University) "Global dynamics of a double infection- and age-structured epidemic model with diffusion"
- Francesca Scarabel (University of Leeds) "Multi-stability in an infectious disease model with waning and boosting of immunity"
MEPI-07: Recent Advances in Dynamics of Human Behavior and Epidemics
Organized by: Abba Gumel (University of Maryland), Alex Safsten, Alice Oveson (both University of Maryland)
- Christian Parkinson (Michigan State University) "Optimal Control of SIR Models with Noncompliant Behavior"
- Jaques Belair (University of Montreal) "Knowledge as an infection: incorporating behaviour in variable compliance to public health recommendations"
- TBD (invites sent) "Title to be determined."
- TBD (invites sent) "Title to be determined."
MEPI-08: Recent Trends in Mathematics of Vector-borne Diseases and Control (Part 1)
Organized by: Abba Gumel (University of Maryland), Alex Safsten, Arnaja Mitra (both University of Maryland)
- Jackson Champer (Peking University) "Suppression gene drive for mosquito control: large scale spatial models and impact on disease transmission"
- Lauren Childs (Virginia Tech) "Assessing the Impact of the Wolbachia-Based Control of Malaria"
- Michael Robert (Virginia Tech) "Modeling Wolbachia-based mosquito control in a changing climate"
- Alex Safsten (University of Maryland) "Leveraging inter-species competition to improve the effectiveness of the sterile insect technique"
- Katherine Gurski (Howard University) "Building a Model for Seasonal Malaria Chemoprevention and Drug Resistance"
- Kathleen Hoffman (University of Maryland Baltimore County) "Parameter Sensitivity, Identifiability, & Estimation for a Data-Driven Model of Malaria"
- Arnaja Mitra (University of Maryland) "Impact of Age-Targeted Vaccination on Malaria Dynamics"
- Zhoulin Qu (University of Texas San Antonio) "Multistage spatial model for informing release of Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes as disease control"
MEPI-09: Recent Trends in Mathematics of Vector-borne Diseases and Control (Part 2)
Organized by: Abba Gumel (University of Maryland), Alex Safsten and Arnaja Mitra (both University of Marlyand)
- Salihu Musa (University of Maryland) "Climate-Driven Epidemiological Modeling of Lyme Disease Transmission in the United States: Spatial Insights and Dynamics"
- Jorge X. Velasco-Hernandez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) "A multiscale model for a vector transmitted disease: the example of Dengue."
- Abba Gumel "Could Malaria be Eradicated Using Existing Control Resources?"
- TBD. Invitation sent. "Title to be determined."
MEPI-10: Modeling Complex Adaptive Systems in Life and Social Sciences (Part 1)
Organized by: Yun Kang (Arizona State University), Tao Feng, Yangzhou University & University of Alberta
- Zhisheng Shuai (U of Central Florida) "Impact of Incidence Functions on Epidemiological Model Dynamics: Mass Action vs. Standard Incidence"
- Daniel B Reeves (Fred Hutch Cancer Center) "Adaptive immune selection during HIV infection both treated and untreated"
- Xinfu Zou (University of Western Ontario) "Modelling the impact of precaution on disease dynamics and its evolution"
- Elena Braverman (University of Calgary) "TBD (delay differential equation)"
- Hermann Eberl (University of Guelph) "Quorum sensing induced oscillations in a simple biofilm reactor model"
- Yaqi Chen (Harbin Institute of Technology) "Spatiotemporal patterns of predator-prey model with nonlocal perception"
- Olav Rueppell (University of Alberta) "Food versus virus transmission across honey bee social networks"
- Bo-Wei Qin (Fudan University) "Quantitative theories and computational methods for modulating frequency and amplitude of biological oscillations"
MEPI-11: Modeling Complex Adaptive Systems in Life and Social Sciences (Part 2)
Organized by: Yun Kang (Arizona State University), Tao Feng, Yangzhou University & University of Alberta
- Joan Ponce (Arizona State University) "HIV, geographic inequalities, and medical deserts"
- Zhilan Feng (National Science Foundation) "Complexities in mathematical epidemiological models suitable for evaluating alternative policy options"
- Matthew Wheeler (University of Florida) "Linking Network Architecture to Dynamic Behavior: Advancing Ideas Beyond Boolean Networks"
- Daozhou Gao (Cleveland State University) "Effects of behaviour change on HFMD transmission"
MEPI-12: Integrating Health Economics and Infectious Disease Modelling: Methods and Examples for Informing Policy
Organized by: Dr. Marie Varughese (Institute of Health Economics and University of Alberta), Dr. Ellen Rafferty (erafferty@ihe.ca)– Institute of Health Economics and University of Alberta
- Dr. Ellen Rafferty (Institute of Health Economics and University of Alberta) "Introduction to Integrating Health Economics and Infectious Disease Model Methods."
- Dr. Marie Varughese (Institute of Health Economics and University of Alberta) "Preventing Tuberculosis in the Foreign-Born Population of Canada: A Mathematical Modelling Study"
- Dr. Mike Paulden (University of Alberta) "Optimization of an Adult Immunization Program in Canada"
- Dr. Weston Roda "Use of Bayesian Inference Ensemble MCMC algorithms in Health Economic Modelling"
MEPI-13: A Mathematical Model of COVID-19 Transmission Dynamics in Kaduna State, Nigeria – Optimal Control Strategies with Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Organized by: Patrick Noah Okolo (Kaduna State University, Kaduna Nigeria), Abubakar S. Magaji, Kaduna State University, Kaduna Nigeria & Abraham Augustine Ahiaba,Bingham University, Karu, Nasarawa State, Nigeria
MEPI-14: Mathematical Epidemiology: Infectious disease modeling across time, space, and scale
Organized by: Meredith Greer, Prashant Kumar Srivastava, Michael Robert (Bates College), Prashant Kumar Srivastava (Indian Institute of Technology, Patna) and Michael Robert (Virginia Tech)
- Tinashe Byron Gashirai (University of Idaho) "A theory of risk perception in shaping human behavior to policy compliance during outbreaks"
- Claudia Pio Ferreira (São Paulo State University) "Improving control strategies of infections by resistant pathogens in a hospital network"
- Dongju Lim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology) "History-dependent framework of infectious disease dynamics"
- Elizabeth Amona (Virginia Commonwealth University) "Simulating the Impact of Localized Intervention Strategies on Epidemic Dynamics with Agent Based Model"
- Lihong Zhao (Kennesaw State University) "Modeling the Dynamics of Legionnaries' Disease and Management Strategies"
- Jorge X. Velasco Hernández (Instituto de Matemáticas Unidad Juriquilla) "School reopenings and risk of contagion: effectiveness of media communication in an example from Queretaro, Mexico"
- Konstantinos Mamis (University of Washington) "Modeling correlated uncertainties in stochastic compartmental models"
- Iulia Martina Bulai (University of Sassari) "Modeling fast information and slow(er) disease spreading"
MEPI-15: Advances in infectious disease modelling: towards a unifying framework to support the needs of small and large jurisdictions (Part 1)
Organized by: Amy Hurford (Memorial University), Michael Li, Public Health Agency of Canada
- Amy Hurford (Memorial University) and Michael Li (PHAC) "Integration of small jurisdictions into pandemic preparedness plans"
- Sally Otto (University of British Columbia) "Source-sink dynamics and the reproductive number of a disease"
- James Watmough (University of New Brunswick) "Disease spread in structured communities"
- Matt Betti (Mount Allison University) "Modeling Healthcare Demand & Length of Stay from Case Data"
- Julien Arino (University of Manitoba) "Switching from introduction-driven to community-level spread"
- Wade McDonald (University of Saskatchewan) "Use of Synthetic Data to Improve Wastewater-based Epidemiological Models in a Small Jurisdiction"
- Richard Zhao (McMaster University) "Edge-based Modeling for Disease Transmission on Random Graphs – an Application to Mitigate a Syphilis Outbreak"
- Amy Greer (Trent University) "The role of dairy cattle imports and domestic movement networks on the potential transmission of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 among Canadian dairy farms"
MEPI-16: Advances in infectious disease modelling: towards a unifying framework to support the needs of small and large jurisdictions (Part 2)
Organized by: Amy Hurford (Memorial University), Michael Li (Public Health Agency of Canada)
- Caroline Mburu (BC CDC) "Wastewater-based modelling for Mpox surveillance among gbMSM in BC"
- Pouria Ramazi (Brock University) "Modeling and Identifying Vaccine Uptake Behaviors in Heterogeneous Populations"
- Sayeda Irin Akter (York University) "Modeling the Effect of Social Distancing on the Spread and Control of Infectious Diseases Using Point Pattern Process"
- Rachael Milwid (PHAC) "Arctic rabies in the Canadian north: Characterization of epidemiologic landscape in Arctic foxes (Vulpes lagopus) and red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in Churchill, Manitoba"
MEPI-17: Incorporating control into infectious disease models
Organized by: Michael A. Robert (Virginia Tech)
- Stacey Smith? (University of Ottawa) "Could COVID-19 mask and vaccine mandates have made a difference if they were rolled out earlier?"
- Indunil M. Hewage (Washington State University) "Controlling the spread of COVID-19 through double-dose vaccination"
- Keoni Castellan (Virginia Tech) "Spatial Heterogeneity and its Effect on Infectious Disease Spread"
- Carrie Manore (Los Alamos National Lab) "Designing Models and Forecasts with Non-Traditional Data to Assess Interventions and Prevention"
MFBM-01: Methods for whole cell modelling
Organized by: Jennifer Flegg (University of Melbourne), Prof Mat Simpson, Queensland University of Technology
- Dr Michael Pan (University of Melbourne) "Energy-based modelling of integrated cardiac cell physiology"
- Prof Ruth Baker (University of Oxford) "Parameter identifiability in biological models"
- Prof Padmini Rangamani (University of California San Diego) "Modeling membrane curvature generation"
- Prof Zaida Luthey-Schulten (University of Illinois) "Determining the rules of life for a minimal bacteria cell"
- Prof Ramon Grima (University of Edinburgh) "Beyond simple models of stochastic gene expression"
- A/Professor Jean Wen (Australian National University) "Machine learning for whole cell modelling"
- Yong See Foo (University of Melbourne) "Model distinguishability and parameter identifiability in dynamical systems"
- Dr Alex Johnston (Queensland University of Technology) "An introduction to whole cell modelling"
MFBM-02: Interaction laws to collective behaviour: Inferring population dynamics
Organized by: Rebecca Crossley, Stéphanie Abo (University of Oxford), University of Oxford
- John Nardini (The College of New Jersey) "Biologically-Informed Neural Networks enable the prediction and interpretation of agent-based models."
- Sui Tang (University of California, Santa Barbara) "Title to be determined."
- Seungwoong Ha (Santa Fe Institute) "Title to be determined."
- Ming Guo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) "Title to be determined."
MFBM-03: Data-driven modeling in biology and medicine
Organized by: Kang-Ling Liao (University of Manitoba), Wenrui Hao, Pennsylvania State University
- Weitao Chen (University of California, Riverside) "A Mechanochemical Coupled Model to Understand Budding Behavior in Aging Yeast"
- Harsh Jain (University of Minnesota Duluth) "Looking Beyond Data: Simulating Treatment Outcomes for Unobserved Heterogeneous Populations Using Preclinical Insights"
- Leili Shahriyari (University of Massachusetts Amherst) "Data Driven QSP Modeling of Cancer: A Step Toward Personalized Treatment"
- Nourridine Siewe (Rochester Institute of Technology) "Osteoporosis Induced by Cellular Senescence: A Mathematical Model"
- Kang-Ling Liao (University of Manitoba) "Mathematical Modeling of Breast Cancer Treatment with Radiation, Anti-estrogen, and Immune Checkpoint"
- Tracy Stepien (University of Florida) "Modeling Tumor-Immune Interactions in the Glioblastoma Microenvironment"
- Wenrui Hao (Pennsylvania State University) "A Computational Framework for Exploring Parameter Identifiability in Data-Driven Modeling"
- Negar Mohammadnejad (University of Alberta) "The Dynamics of Oncolytic Virus- Immune Interactions"
MFBM-04: Using Sensitivity Analysis and Uncertainty Quantification to Develop or Improve Biomathematical Models
Organized by: Kelsey Gasior (University of Notre Dame)
- Nicholas G. Cogan (Florida State University) "Sensitivity analysis, identifiability and uncertainty in a model of bacterial persistence"
- Erica Rutter (University of California, Merced) "Sensitivity of Thermal Stress on Symbiotic Relationship of the Bobtail Squid"
- Nate Kornetzke (University of New Mexico) "Out of the Jungle: Using Global Sensitivity Analysis to Disentangle the Ecology of Yellow Fever in the Americas"
- Kelsey Gasior (University of Notre Dame) "The Impact of Choices in Sensitivity Analysis when Understanding the Dynamics Underlying the Epithelial Mesenchymal Transition"
MFBM-05: Stochastic Methods for Biochemical Reaction Networks (Part 1)
Organized by: Hye-Won Kang (University of Maryland Baltimore County), Arnab Ganguly, Louisiana State University, aganguly@lsu.edu
- Ruth Williams (University of California San Diego) "Stochastic Analysis of Markov Chain Models for Chromatin Dynamics"
- Grzegorz Rempala (Ohio State University) "Reverse Engineering Reaction Network from Time Series Data"
- Mark Flegg (Monash University) "The Application of Chemical Reaction Algorithms to Infectious Disease Epidemics Through Household Network"
- Hye-Won Kang (University of Maryland Baltimore County) "Stochastic Modeling of Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions in Biology"
- Suzanne Sindi (University of California Merced) "Bayesian Methods for Parameter and Model Inference in Stochastic Chemical Reaction Networks"
- Riten Mitra (University of Louisville) "Bayesian Non-parametric Learning of Covariate-based Markov Jump-Processes"
- Muruhan Rathinam (University of Maryland Baltimore County) "Stochastic Filtering of Reaction Networks"
- Arnab Ganguly (Louisiana State University) "Multiscale Enzyme Kinetic Reactions: Stochastic Averaging and Statistical Inference"
MFBM-06: Stochastic Methods for Biochemical Reaction Networks (Part 2)
Organized by: Hye-Won Kang (University of Maryland Baltimore County), Arnab Ganguly, Louisiana State University, aganguly@lsu.edu
- Joshua McGinnis (University of Pennsylvania) "Homogenization and Simulation of a Spatially Extended, Stochastic Ion Channel Model"
- Radek Erban (University of Oxford) "Chemical Reaction Networks: Systematic Design, Limit Cycles and Spatio-Temporal Modelling"
- Ying Zhang (Northeastern University) "Diffusive Transport on Dynamic Intracellular Networks"
- David Lipshutz (Baylor College of Medicine) "Methods for Comparing Sensitivities of Stochastic Neural Networks"
MFBM-07: Mathematical methods for biological shape data analysis
Organized by: Wenjun Zhao (UBC/Wake Forest University), Khanh Dao Duc (UBC)
- Ashok Prasad (Colorado State University) "Signatures of cell fate in cell and nuclear morphology"
- Felix Zhou (UT Southwestern) "Mapping cell dynamics to a canonical shape to quantitatively understand the causal interplay between morphology and cancer signaling"
- Joe Kileel (UT Austin) "Method of moments for determining macromolecular shapes in cryo-EM"
- Willem Diepeveen (UCLA) "Riemannian geometry for efficient analysis of protein dynamics data"
- Qiyu Wang (UBC) "Mathematical and computational framework for heterogeneity analysis from large Cryo-EM 2D image data: Applications to SARS-CoV2 spike protein"
- Adele Myers (UCSB) "Geodesic regression on brain surface shapes"
- Laurent Younes (JHU) " TBD"
- Ben Cardoen (UBC) "Shape discovery of functional interaction between proteins and organelles in the presence of weak oracle distances in superresolution microscopy"
MFBM-08: Bayesian Applications in Mathematical Biology
Organized by: Daniel Glazar (Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute), Renee Brady-Nicholls, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
- Ernesto Augusto Bueno Da Fonseca Lima (University of Texas at Austin) "Modeling Tumor Sensitivity and Resistance: A Bayesian Framework for Predicting Combination Therapies"
- Franz Kuchling (Tufts University) "Uncertainty Minimization as an Adaptive and Evolutionary Imperative in Biology"
- Nathanaël Hozé (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM)) "A multi-scale modelling framework to assess the relationship between SARS-CoV-2 viral load and transmission in household studies"
- Kathleen Wilkie (Toronto Metropolitan University) "A Method for Bayesian Inference in Models of Tumour Growth with Censored Data"
MFBM-09: Probability & stochastic processes in biology: models, methods, and community (Part 2)
Organized by: Eric Foxall (UBC Okanagan), Jinsu Kim, POSTECH and Linh Huynh, Dartmouth College
- Eric Foxall (University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus) "Perturbation theory of reproductive value for branching Markov processes"
- Samuel Isaacson (Boston University) "Mean-field limits of particle-based stochastic reaction-transport models"
- Yangrui Xiang (University of Nottingham) "Mixing Properties and Quantitative Hydrodynamics of Interacting Particle Systems in Mathematical Biology"
- Minjoon Kim (POSTECH) "Non-exponential ergodicity of stochastic reaction systems"
- Chris Miles (University of California Irvine) "Modeling and inference of subcellular spatial heterogeneities in stochastic gene expression"
- Clément Soubrier (University of British Columbia) "Stochastic modeling of spindle stability during meiosis"
- Alan Lindsay (University of Notre-Dame) "A mean first passage time theory for velocity jump processes"
- Hwai-Ray Tung (University of Utah) "k-th passage times under fast searcher immigration"
MFBM-10: Probability & stochastic processes in biology: models, methods, and community (Part 1)
Organized by: Jinsu Kim (POSTECH), Eric Foxall (The University of British Columbia - Okanagan Campus), and Linh Huynh (Dartmouth College)
- Jinsu Kim (POSTECH) "Stability of stochastic biochemical reaction systems"
- Alexandru Hening (Texas A&M University) "Stochastic population dynamics in discrete time"
- Jody Reimer (University of Utah) "Colored noise and the duration of transient ecological dynamics"
- Anna Kraut (St. Olaf College) "Evolution across fitness valleys in a changing environment"
- Si Tang (Lehigh University) "Number of critical points of biological systems"
- Samantha Petti (Tufts University) "Learning genotype-phenotype maps with Gaussian process regression"
- Ellen Baake (Bielefeld University) "Evolving genealogies in cultural evolution"
- Linh Huynh (Dartmouth College) "Spin glasses in evolutionary biology"
MFBM-11: Flow-Kick Dynamics in Population Biology: Bridging Continuous and Discrete Processes
Organized by: Sebastian Schreiber (University of California, Davis)
- Junping Shi (College of William and Mary) "Impacts of recruitment, temperature, cannibalism, and Hematodinium infection in a seasonal population model of the blue crab in Chesapeake Bay"
- Kate Meyers (Cornell University) "Comparing the dynamics of flow-kick models to their fully continuous counterparts"
- Punit Ghandi (Virginia Commonwealth University) "The impact of rainfall variability on resilience in a flow-kick model for dryland vegetation bands"
- Rebecca Tyson (University of British Columbia Okanagan) "P-tipping in continuous and discrete resource-consumer systems'"
- Alanna Hoyer-Leitzel (Mount Holyoak College) "Resilience to reinfection in an impulsive model of viral exposure"
- Sebastian Schreiber (University of California, Davis) "Coexistence, extinction, and invasion graphs for flow-kick systems"
- Vanja Dukic (University of Colorado, Boulder) "Weak-Form Inference for Hybrid Dynamical Systems in Ecology"
- Jakob Karre-Rasmussen "Assessing the Impact of Drought on Tree Mortality Using Flow-Kick Models"
MFBM-12: Women in Mathematical Biology
Organized by: Margherita Maria Ferrari (University of Manitoba), Daniel Cruz, University of Florida
- Morgan Craig (Université de Montréal) "Age-related differences in humoral responses after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination determine boosting strategies"
- Margherita Maria Ferrari (University of Manitoba) "Discrete models for DNA-RNA complexes"
- Lila Kari (University of Waterloo) "Machine Learning for Biodiversity Informatics"
- Stacey Smith? (University of Ottawa) "The implications of micro-host--pathogen co-evolutionary outcomes on macro-epidemics"
MFBM-13: Data-informed mathematical modeling in cancer and development
Organized by: Changhan He (University of California, Irvine), Chengyue Wu, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Wenjun Zhao (Wake Forest University) "Dynamical GRN inference via optimal transport"
- Qixuan Wang (University of California, Riverside) "Data-informed modeling on hair follicle cell fate regulation"
- Axel Almet (University of California, Irvine) "Modeling the transcriptional dynamics of cellular senescence using single-cell transcriptomics"
- Lifeng Han (Tulane University) "Mathematical modeling of cancer vaccines: how to model tumor-immune interaction"
MFBM-14: Celebrating 60 Years of Excellence: Honoring Yang Kuang’s Contributions to Mathematical Biology (Part 1)
Organized by: Tin Phan (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Yun Kang (Arizona State University); Tracy Stepien (University of Florida)
- Yun Kang (Arizona State University) "Yang Kuang’s 60 years of excellence in mathematical biology"
- Erica Rutter (University of California Merced) "Modeling and Estimating Heterogeneity in Cancer"
- Kevin Flores (North Carolina State University) "Modeling BK viral dynamics in renal transplant patients"
- Eric Kostelich (Arizona State University) "Mathematical modeling of glioblastoma treatment and potential clinical applications"
MFBM-15: Celebrating 60 Years of Excellence: Honoring Yang Kuang’s Contributions to Mathematical Biology (Part 2)
Organized by: Tin Phan (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Yun Kang (Arizona State University); Tracy Stepien (University of Florida)
- Tianxu Wang (University of Alberta) "TBD"
- Lifeng Han (Tulane University) "Reduce drug resistance using a phenotype-structured population model"
- Bruce Pell (Lawrence Technological University) "A wastewater-based dynamic model for multi-strain epidemiological inference"
- Tin Phan (Los Alamos National Laboratory) "The development and validation of a modeling framework for HIV treatment"
MFBM-16: Methods and applications of data informed agent-based models for systems biology
Organized by: Annequa Sundus (Indiana University Bloomington), Elmar Bucher (Indiana University Bloomington), Paul Macklin (Indiana University Bloomington)
- Boris Aguilar, PhD(Institute of Systems Biology) "Integration of molecular data into multicellular models of solid tumors"
- Dr. Marco Ruscone (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) "Multiscale Modeling in Cancer Research: Integrating Spatial Dynamics and Intracellular Regulation with Agent-Based and Boolean Network Approaches"
- Eric Cramer (Oregon Health and Science University) "A spatiotemporal calibration approach for agent-based models with tumor spheroids"
- Harsh Jain, PhD (University of Minnesota Duluth) "The SMoRe-verse: A novel method for ABM parametrization and uncertainty quantification"
MFBM-17: Modern methods in the data-driven modeling of biological systems (Part 1 out of 2)
Organized by: Cody FitzGerald (Northwestern University), Rainey Lyons (CU Boulder), Nora Heitzman-Breen (CU Boulder), Susan Rogowski (NCSU)
- Ruth Baker (Oxford) "Learning about the cell cycle by combining models and data"
- David Bortz (CU Boulder) "Weak form Scientific Machine Learning"
- Cody FitzGerald (Northwestern) "Physiological models of heterothermy"
- William Lavery (Uppsala University) "Biologically-Informed Neural Networks for cell models with minimal prior assumptions"
- Nora Heitzman-Breen (CU Boulder) "The weak form is stronger than you think: Identifiability and unobserved variables"
- Yue Lui (Purdue) "Bayesian parameter inference in agent-based models of zebrafish patterns using TDA"
- Rainey Lyons (CU Boulder) "Learning Structured Population Dynamics from Data with WSINDy"
- Alyssa Oswald (NCSU) "Topological Data Analysis-Based Model Selection for Agent-based Models of Collective Motion"
MFBM-18: Modern methods in the data-driven modeling of biological systems (Part 2 out of 2)
Organized by: Cody FitzGerald (Northwestern University ), Rainey Lyons (CU Boulder), Nora Heitzman-Breen (CU Boulder), Susan Rogowski (NCSU)
- Susan Rogowski (NCSU) "Equation Learning for Agent Based Infectious Disease Models"
- Alexandria Volkening (Purdue) "Combining different approaches to topological data analysis to quantify agent-based patterns"
- Alasdair Hastewell (NITMB) "Discovering dynamical models from partial biological observations with degeneracy-robust algorithms."
- Arsalan Taassob (NCSU) "Biologically Informed Computational Models for Cellular Dynamics"
- Dan Messenger (LANL) "Weak-form equation learning for hybrid and multiscale dynamical systems in cell biology and ecology"
- Joshua Macdonald (Johns Hopkins) "Statistical Inference of Planktonic Interaction Networks"
- Marisa Eisenberg (Michigan) " Models to inform wastewater-based epidemiology: opportunities and uncertainty?"
- Seth Minor (CU Boulder) "TBD"
MFBM-19: Advances in Optimal Control Methods for Diverse Modeling Frameworks
Organized by: Hannah Anderson (Moffitt Cancer Center), Kasia Rejniak, Moffitt Cancer Center
- Hannah Anderson (Moffitt Cancer Center) "Optimal control of adoptive T-cell therapy and gemcitabine in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer"
- Yangjin Kim (Konkuk University) "Specific optimal control of signaling networks in OV-bortezomib-NK therapy in GBM progression"
- Xinyue Zhao (University of Tennessee Knoxville) "Optimal control of free boundary models for tumor growth"
- Luis Maria Lopes da Fonseca (University of Florida) "Surrogate modeling and control of medical digital twins"
MFBM-20: Multicellular Agent-Based Modelling - The OpenVT Project (Part 1)
Organized by: James Osborne (University of Melbourne ), James Glazier (Indiana University) Yi Jiang (Georgia State University)
- Yi Jiang (Georgia State University, USA) "Multicellular modelling of Collective cancer invasion"
- Jupiter Algorta (University of British Columbia, CANADA) "Using Morpheus for single cell motility and multicellular development"
- Andreas Buttenschoen (University of Massachusetts, USA) "Robust Numerical Methods for cells invading extracellular matrix: Adaptive Time-stepping and preconditioning for reproducible multicellular models"
- Rajendra Singh Negi (Syracuse University, USA) "Multicellular modeling of how myosin localization impacts symmetry-breaking in zebrafish embryonic development"
- Claire Miller (Auckland Bioengineering Institute, NEW ZEALAND) "Multicellular modelling of endometrial cell invasion in endometriosis lesion onset"
- Paul Macklin (Indiana University, USA) "Intuitive code-free tissue modeling in the cloud with PhysiCell"
- Marco Ruscone (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, SPAIN) "Multiscale Modeling in Cancer Research: Integrating Spatial Dynamics and Intracellular Regulation with Agent-Based and Boolean Network Approaches"
- Steve Runser (ETH Zurich, SWITZERLAND) "PolyHoop & SimuCell3D: Efficient and Versatile Tissue Simulations in 2D and 3D"
MFBM-21: Multicellular Agent-Based Modelling - The OpenVT Project (Part 2)
Organized by: James Osborne (University of Melbourne ), James Glazier (Indiana University) Yi Jiang (Georgia State University)
- James Glazier (Indiana University, USA) "Making Virtual Tissue Models FAIR - Opportunities and Challenges"
- TJ Sego (University of Florida, USA) "Quantitative Reproducibility at Scale: A Federated, Standardizable Approach"
- Eran Agmon (University of Connecticut, USA) "Multicellular Schema with Vivarium"
- James Osborne (University of Melbourne, AUSTRALIA) "Multicellular Model Reproducibility: A case study, results from the Open VT hackathon"
MFBM-22: Calibrating and Relating agent based models to spatial data
Organized by: Sydney Ackermann, Ramanarayanan Kizhuttil, Samrat Sohel Mondal (Wodarz lab) (University of California, San Diego)
- Katarzyna Rejniak (Associate Professor at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Research Institute, University of South Florida) "Using tumor histology to test cancer immunotherapies with agent-based micropharmacology model"
- David A Hormuth (Research Scientist at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (Oden), The University of Texas at Austin) "Leveraging longitudinal experimental data to parameterize mathematical models of tumor growth and response"
- David Basanta Gutierrez (Professor/Senior Member at Moffitt Cancer Center) "TBD"
- Robert Noble (Senior Lecturer, School of Science & Technology, Department of Mathematic, City University of London) "TBD"
MFBM-23: Mathematical Modelling in Disease and Therapy: Integrating Quantitative Frameworks for Deeper Insights
Organized by: Maria Kleshnina (Queensland University of Technology), Mason Lacy (Queensland University of Technology), Luke Filippini (Queensland University of Technology)
- Luke Filippini (Queensland University of Technology) "Data-informed stochastic modelling of anisotropic movement in the brain for improving insights into disease progression"
- Moriah Echlin (Tampere University) "Using Single-Cell Data-driven Boolean Network Models to Analyze Prostate Cancer Dynamics"
- Noa Levi (University of Melbourne) "Leveraging algebraic approaches to inform therapeutic intervention"
- Louise Spekking (TU Delft) "Improving cancer therapy through migrastatics and estimating tumor composition"
MFBM-24: Immune Digital Twins: Mathematical and Computational Foundations (Part 1)
Organized by: Tomas Helikar (University of Nebraska - Lincoln), Juilee Thakar (Juilee_Thakar@URMC.Rochester.edu) - University of Rochester Medical Center James Glazier (jaglazier@gmail.com) - Indiana University
- Reinhard Laubenbacher (University of Florida) "Immune Digital Twins: Foundational Mathematical Challenges"
- Yi Jiang (Georgia State University) "Immunogenic Cell Death Drives Synergistic Cancer Treatment: A Quantitative Study."
- Gary An (University of Vermont) "NASEM-compliant Critical Illness Digital Twins to cure sepsis"
- Juilee Thakar (University of Rochester Medical Center) "Monocyte digital twin and vascular disease"
- Josh Loecker (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) "Adaptive Analysis of Mechanistic Models using Large Language Models"
- Jason Shoemaker (University of Pittsburgh) "Network-based analyses in medical digital twins"
- Esteban A. Hernandez Vargas (University of Idaho) "Adaptive Observers for Digital Twins of Respiratory Infections"
- Heber L. Rocha (Indiana University) "Bridging Data and Uncertainty Quantification in Agent-Based Cancer Modeling."
MFBM-25: Immune Digital Twins: Mathematical and Computational Foundations (Part 2)
Organized by: Tomas Helikar (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), Juilee Thakar (University of Rochester) James Glazier (Indiana University)
- Elsje Pienaar (Purdue University) " Partially-functional exhausted CD8+ T cells can contribute to short-term viral suppression in children with perinatal HIV"
- James Glazier (Indiana University) "Using ML/AI Methods to Provide Metrics to Compare Stochastic Images"
MFBM-26: Emerging trends in quantitative pharmacometric modelling
Organized by: Stuart Johnston (The University of Melbourne), Matthew Faria
- Irina Kareva (EMD Serono Research Institute, USA) "From pre-clinical data to first in human dose projections: a different puzzle every time"
- Jae Kyoung Kim (Department of Mathematical Sciences, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea) "Beyond the Michaelis-Menten: Accurate Prediction of Pharmakokinetics and Pharmakodynamics"
- Thibault Delobel (Cancer Systems Pharmacology, Institut Curie, France) " Integrating glioblastoma plasticity into combination treatment design: a quantitative systems pharmacology and machine learning approach"
- Stuart Johnston (School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne, Australia) "Quantifying biological heterogeneity in nano-engineered particle-cell interaction experiments"
- Matthew Faria (Department of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia) "Drug delivery kinetics - a path towards rational design"
- Yunmin Song (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea) "TBC"
- TBC "(Waiting on final confirmation from two additional speakers, apologies)"
- TBC "Title to be determined."
MFBM-27:
Organized by: Dhananjay Bhaskar (Yale University), Bernadette Stolz-Pretzer
- Jian Tang (Mila - Quebec AI Institute) "Geometric deep learning for protein design"
- Katherine Benjamin (University of Oxford) "Topological methods for subcellular spatial transcriptomics"
- Veronica Ciocanel (Duke University) "Unraveling actin filament aster and ring structures using topological data analysis"
- Darrick Lee (University of Edinburgh) "Geometric aspects of lead-lag phenomena"
- Nan Wu (University of Texas at Dallas) "Adaptive Bayesian regression on high dimensional data with low intrinsic dimensionality"
- Eunbi Park (National Cancer Institute) "Topological data analysis of pattern formation of human induced pluripotent stem cell colonies"
- Dhananjay Bhaskar (Yale University) "Mapping the landscape of protein conformations in molecular dynamics"
- Bernadette Stolz (Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry) "Relational persistent homology for multispecies data with application to the tumor microenvironment"
NEUR-01: Neurodynamics
Organized by: Richard Bertram (Florida State University), Yangyang Wang, Brandeis University
- Adam Stinchcombe (University of Toronto) "A Mathematical Model for the Role of Dopamine-D2 Self-Regulation in the Production of Ultradian Rhythms"
- Amin Akhshi (McGill University) "From Chaos to Neural Code: Exploring the Role of Gamma Burst Oscillations in Sensory Pyramidal Cells"
- Na Yu (Toronto Metropolitan University) "Exploring the Role of Noise and Coupling Strength in the Emergent Dynamics of Clustered Neural Motifs"
- Richard Bertram "Dynamic Homeostasis in Relaxation and Bursting Oscillations"
NEUR-02: Modeling of Neurodegenerative Diseases
Organized by: Laurent PUJO-MENJOUET and Suzanne SINDI (Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University (Lyon, FRANCE))
- Théo LOUREAUX (University of California, MERCED) "A New Data Augmentation Method: Synthetic Biological Images for Deep-Learning Models"
- Ashish RAJ (University of California, SAN FRANCISCO) "Biophysical modeling of pathology progression in dementia and its implementation using physics-informed neural networks"
- Human REZAEI (INRAE Center, Jouy-en-Josas) "The dynamics of prion spreading is governed by the interplay between the non-linearities of tissue response and replication kinetics"
- Laurent PUJO-MENJOUET (Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University) "A multigroup approach to delayed prion production"
ONCO-01: MathOnco Subgroup Mini-Symposium: At the Interface of Modeling and Machine Learning
Organized by: Jana Gevertz (The College of New Jersey), Thomas Hillen (University of Alberta), Linh Huynh (Dartmouth College)
- Thomas Yankeelov (University of Texas at Austin) "Integrating mechanism-based and data-driven modeling to predict treatment response in cancer"
- Adam Maclean (University of Southern California) "Dynamic rewiring of cell-cell interaction networks in metastatic TMEs to empower checkpoint inhibitors"
- Paul Macklin (Indiana University Bloomington) "Integrating high-throughput exploration and learning with agent-based models of cancer"
- Venkata Manem (Université Laval) "Leveraging Bioinformatics and Machine Learning for the Discovery of Cancer Biomarkers"
- Kit Gallagher (University of Oxford) "redicting Treatment Outcomes from Adaptive Therapy - A New Mathematical Biomarker"
- John Metzcar (University of Minnesota) "Mechanistic learning to understand tumor-immune dynamics and optimize therapies"
- Lucas Gillewater (University of Colorado Denver) "Computational methods for subtyping through biologically informed integration of multi-omic data"
- Lena Podina (University of Waterloo) "Universal Physics-Informed Neural Networks and their Applications"
ONCO-02: Digital twins for clinical oncology and cancer research
Organized by: Guillermo Lorenzo (University of A Coruna (Spain)), Chengyue Wu (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, US), Ernesto A. B. F. Lima (The University of Texas at Austin, US)
- Thomas E. Yankeelov (The University of Texas at Austin, US) "Imaging-based digital twins for clinical oncology"
- Maximilian A. R. Strobl (Cleveland Clinic, US) "Bridging the gap: What can we learn from pre-clinical experiments about digital twins for personalized cancer treatment scheduling?"
- Renee Brady-Nicholls (H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, US) "Improving hormone therapy in African American prostate cancer patients using a multi-model approach"
- Fatemeh Beigmohammadi (University of Montreal, Canada) "Efficient methods for generating virtual populations"
- David A. Hormuth II (The University of Texas at Austin, US) "Image-Based Habitat Dynamics in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer Undergoing Radiotherapy"
- Pirmin Schlicke (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, US) "Digital Twin Calibration in Frequency Space with Clinical Routine Care Data"
- Heber L. Rocha (Indiana University, US) "Sequential Parameter Inference of Agent-Based Models of Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics Using In Vitro Patient-Derived Organoid Experiments"
- Marianna Cerasuolo (University of Sussex, UK) "Mathematical and Statistical Insights into Gut Microbiota–Phytocannabinoid–Diet Interplay in Prostate Cancer Progression in Mice"
ONCO-03: Immune responses to cancer: from mathematics to clinics
Organized by: Raluca EFTIMIE (University of Marie & Louis Pasteur, France ), Dumitru TRUCU, University of Dundee, UK
- Svetlana Bunimovich (Ariel University, Israel) "Mathematical models to improve bladder cancer therapies"
- Yangjin Kim (Konkuk University, South Korea) "Dynamics of tumor associated neutrophils-NK cells in tumor growth and control of radiotherapy-induced neutropenia in lung cancer treatment"
- Haralampos Hatzikirou (Khalifa University, UAE & TU Dresden, Germany) "From cell patterns in biopsies to clinical predictions"
- Vincent Lemaire (Genentech, USA) "To be decided"
ONCO-04: Data-driven integration and modeling of cellular processes in cell motility and cancer progression: Experiments and mathematical models
Organized by: Yangjin Kim (Brown University and Konkuk University), Magdalena Stolarska at University of St. Thomas
- Hans G. Othmer (University of Minnesota) "Mathematical and Computational Problems in Cell Shape and Motility"
- Padmini Rangamani (University of California San Diego) "Modeling collagen fibril degradation as a function of matrix microarchitecture"
- Dumitru Trucu (University of Dundee) "Advancements in multiscale modelling for glioblastoma: emergence of 'on-the-fly' non-local isotropic-to-anisotropic transition in cell population transport"
- Magda Stolarska (University of St. Thomas) "A mathematical model of active cortical stress generation and its effect on cell movement"
- Yangjin Kim (Brown University, Konkuk University) "The role of tumor-associated neutrophils and NK cells and cell mechanics in regulation of lung cancer: hybrid multiscale approach"
- Ji Young Yoo (U of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) "Harnessing Viro-Immunotherapy for brain and breast cancer brain metastasis tumors"
- Alexandra Shyntar (University of Alberta) "Mathematical Modelling of Microtube-Driven Regrowth of Glioma After Local Resection"
- Donggu Lee (Konkuk University) "Asthma-controlled regulation of tumor growth in brain via primed T cells and microglia"
ONCO-05: Dynamical modeling of cell-state transitions in cancer therapy resistance
Organized by: Mohit Kumar Jolly (Indian Institute of Science), Sarthak Sahoo (Indian Institute of Science)
- Rebecca Beckker (University of Southern California, USA) "Modeling Cell-State Dynamics to Unravel and Counteract Immune Suppression in Breast Cancer Immunotherapy"
- James Greene (Clarkson University, USA) "Understanding therapeutic tolerance through a mathematical model of drug-induced resistance"
- Sara Hamis (Uppsala University, Sweden) "Growth rate-driven modelling of drug-induced phenotypic adaptation in BRAFV600E-mutant melanoma"
- Sarthak Sahoo (Indian Institute of Science) "Mathematical modeling of multi-axis plasticity in breast cancer"
- David Cook (University of Ottawa) "Developmental constraints on cellular plasticity in ovarian cancer"
- Jill Gallaher (Moffitt Cancer Center) "Selection for optimal evolvability during tumor growth and treatment"
- Cordelia McGehee (Mayo Clinic) "Chemotherapy dosing as a driver of population evolution in models of intra-tumoral cell-cell competition in cancer"
- Russell Rockne (City of Hope National Medical Center) "Leukemia is an eigenstate of the epigenome"
ONCO-06: Decoding Drug-Induced Persistence: Experiments, Models, and Optimal Drug Scheduling
Organized by: Einar Bjarki Gunnarsson (Science Institute, University of Iceland), Maximilian Strobl (Cleveland Clinic, USA, stroblm@ccf.org)
- Michael Cotner (University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA) "Tracking resistance to targeted therapy in TNBC with cell barcodes"
- Jana Gevertz (College of New Jersey, NJ, USA) "Mitigating non-genetic resistance to checkpoint inhibition based on multiple states of immune exhaustion"
- Mattia Corigliano (FIRC Institute for Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy) "Can Lower Doses and Drug Holidays Improve Treatment of Cancer Persistence?"
- Irina Kareva (EMD Serono Research Institute, MA, USA) "Dosing Strategies for Bispecifics with a Bell-Shaped Efficacy Curve: What Looks Like Resistance May Be Corrected Through Schedule Adjustments"
- Raymond Ng (University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA) "The role of tumor transcriptional variability in evading CD8+ T cells"
- Chenyu Wu (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, MN, USA) "A statistical framework for detecting therapy-induced resistance from drug screens"
- Tatiana Miti (H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, FL, USA) "ABM studies on the role of the drug-sheltering effects of stroma on the emergence of resistance"
- Einar Bjarki Gunnarsson (University of Iceland) "Decoding drug-induced persistence: The need for integration of theory with experiments"
ONCO-07: Mathematical Modeling of the Tumor-Immune Microenvironment to Advance Immunotherapeutic Strategies
Organized by: Tyler Simmons (Therapy Modeling and Design Center, University of Minnesota), John Metzcar and Sarah Anderson: Therapy Modeling and Design Center, University of Minnesota
- Katherine Lacy Owens (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, WA) "Insight from a spatiotemporal model for local delivery of CAR T cells"
- Gabriel Côté (Sainte-Justine University Hospital Azrieli Research Centre / Université de Montréal) "The role of chronobiology on immunotherapies to prevent neutrophil infiltration into the tumour microenvironment in lung cancer"
- Riley M. Manning (Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota) "Agent-based modeling of glioblastoma immunotherapy strategies"
- Jason T. George, MD, PhD (Department of Biomedical Engineering, Texas A&M University Affiliated Faculty, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University Adjunct Faculty, Department of Hematopoietic Biology and Malignancy, MD Anderson Cancer Center) "Stochastic modeling of immunomodulation in the tumor-immune microenvironment"
ONCO-08: Systems Approaches to Cancer Biology
Organized by: Ashlee N. Ford Versypt (University at Buffalo, State University of New York), John Metzcar, University of Minnesota
- Aaron Meyer (UCLA) "Tensor-based/multilinear modeling for integrating cancer omics data"
- Stacey Finley (University of Southern California) "Dynamics for cancer cell signaling and metabolic interactions"
- Erzsébet Regan (The College of Wooster) "Boolean network modeling for cancer cell functions"
- Julia B. Curd (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus) "Machine learning to infer targetable pathways and treatment options"
OTHE-01: Recent perspectives on mathematical-biology education
Organized by: Stacey Smith? (The University of Ottawa)
- Kathleen Hoffman (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) "Improvement of Quantitative Reasoning Skills in Transfer and Direct Entry Students Exposed to Cell Biology Modules"
- Stacey Smith? (The University of Ottawa) "To pre-record or not to pre-record? Lessons learned from video instruction in a flipped classroom"
- Angela Peace (Texas Tech University) "Teaching Mathematical Ecology across the disciplines"
- Rebecca Everett (Haverford College) "Building an Applied Track at a Small Liberal Arts College: A Work in Progress"
- Michael Kelly (Transylvania University) "Beyond an introduction: advanced interdisciplinary data science in the liberal arts."
- Meredith Greer (Bates College) "Assessment Strategies in the Teaching of Mathematical Biology"
- Elissa Schwartz "Math bio education in Nepal vs the US"
- Laura Strube "SMB Postdoc Cohort Communities: Providing support for the transition to independence in interdisciplinary research"
OTHE-02: Mathematical frontiers in the analysis of biological systems with kinetic effects and spatial diffusion
Organized by: Fanze Kong (University of Washington), Michael Jeffrey Ward and University of British Columbia
- Fanze Kong (University of Washington) "Spike Dynamics in Several Keller-Segel Models with Logistic Growth"
- Michael Jeffrey Ward (University of British Columbia) "Synchronous Oscillations for Dynamically Active Localized Compartments Coupled by a Bulk Diffusion Field in R^2 and R^3"
- Thomas Hillen (University of Alberta) "Mean First Passage Times for Transport Equations"
- Jack Hughes (University of British Columbia) "Pulses, Waves, and Mesas in Mass Conserved Activator-Inhibitor Media: From Theory to Actin Polymerization"
- Chunyi Gai (University of Northern British Columbia) "An Asymptotic Analysis of Spike Self-Replication and Spike Nucleation of Reaction-Diffusion Patterns on Growing 1-D Domains"
- Alan Lindsay (University of Notre Dame) "Asymptotic and Numerical Methods for Cellular Signaling and Directional Sensing"
- Mohammad El Smaily (University of Northern British Columbia) "A Wolbachia Infection Model with Free Boundary"
- Shuangquan Xie (Hunan University) "Spiky Patterns and Their Dynamics in a Three Component Food Chain System"
OTHE-03: Panel Discussion on the Future of publishing in the quantitative life sciences
Organized by: Reinhard Laubenbacher (University of Florida)
OTHE-04: Research in Biomathematics: A Guide to Funding from the U.S. Army Research Office
Organized by: Luis Sordo Vieira (University of Florida), Reinhard Laubenbacher, University of Florida
OTHE-05: Using CompuCell3D as a Platform to Construct Multi-Scale, Multicellular, Agent-Based Virtual-Tissue Simulations: Exploring the Interactions between Intracellular Pathways, Cell Behaviors, Tissue-Level Signaling, and Whole-Body Context
Organized by: Professor James Glazier (Indiana University Bloomington), Hayden Fennell, Indiana University Bloomington
- James Glazier (Indiana University Bloomington) "Title to be determined."
OTHE-06: Design Principles of Biological Networks
Organized by: Kishore Hari and Pradyumna Harlapur (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics), Pradyumna Harlapur, PhD Candidate, Dept. of BioEngineering, Indian Institute of Science
- Jordan Rozum (Post Doctorate RA, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) "Redundant structures and robust dynamics in biomolecular networks"
- Claus Kadelka (Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University) "Canalization and Modularity in Biological Networks"
- Chandrakala Meena (Assistant Professor, School of Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research - Thiruvananthapuram) "Emergent Stability in Complex Biological Networks"
- Pradyumna Harlapur (PhD Candidate, Department of BioEngineering, Indian Insititute of Science) "Characterizing Regulatory Interactions and Dimensionality in Gene Networks Driving Cell-Fate Choices"
OTHE-07: A New Wave of Mathematical Modeling in Medicine and Pharmacy
Organized by: Sungrim Seirin-Lee (Kyoto University/Graduate School of Medicine), Jaekyoung Kim (KAIST), So Miyoshi (Pfizer)
- Sungrim Seirin-Lee (Kyoto University) "Pathological State Inference System based on Skin Eruption Morphology for Personalized Treatments in Dermatology"
- Adrien Hollows (University of Oxford) "TBA"
- Sandy Anderson (Moffitt Cancer Center) "TBA"
- Jaekyoung Kim (KAIST) "Math + AI + Wearables for Sleep & Mood Disorders"
- So Miyoshi (Pfizer) "Transforming Drug Research and Development: The Paradigm Shift Driven by Mathematical Models"
- Nessy Tania (Pfizer) "Advancing Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Modeling for Inflammatory Bowel Disease for Clinical Efficacy Predictions in Ulcerative Colitis"
- Eamonn Gaffney (University of Oxford) "Mathematical Modelling collaborations with the pharmaceutical sector: from pharmacokinetics to cellular kinetics"
- Brian Corrigan (Metrum) "TBA"
OTHE-08: Emerging Technologies in Biomedical Computational Modeling and Measurement
Organized by: Joanna Wares (University of Richmond), Luis Melara, Shippensburg University
- Luis Melara (Shippensburg University) "Optimal Bandwidth Selection in BioFET Measurements"
- Olcay Akman (Illinois State University) "Quantum Mechanics for Population Dynamics: A New Approach to Population Dynamics, A Study of Immigration, Emigration and Fission via Quantum Mechanics"
- Anthony Kearsley (National Institute of Standards and Technology) "On the Identification of Controlled Substances"
- Joanna Wares (University of Richmond) "Comparison of Virtual Clinical Trial Techniques"
OTHE-09: Bioinference: diverse approaches to inference and identifiability in biology
Organized by: Ioana Bouros (University of Oxford), Alexander Browning, University of Melbourne
- Ioana Bouros (University of Oxford) "A retrospective analysis of the robustness of existing compartmental models for modelling future pandemics"
- Marisa Eisenberg (University of Michigan) "Identifiability, uncertainty, and model reduction in mathematical biology"
- Dasuni Salpadoru (Queensland University of Technology) "Parameter estimation and identifiability analysis of bistable ecosystems"
- Yurij Salmaniw (University of Oxford) "Structural identifiability of linear-in-parameter parabolic PDEs through auxiliary elliptic operators"
- Tyler Cassidy (University of Leeds) "Parameter estimation and identifiability from clinical data in viral dynamics models"
- Hyukpyo Hong (University of Wisconsin–Madison) "Inferring delay distributions in partially observed biological processes"
- Hui Jia Farm (University of Oxford) "Importance of identifiable parameters within a cardiac cell model for reliable predictions"
- Liam O'Brien (Ohio State University) "Structural causes of pattern formation and its breakdown - through model independent bifurcation analysis"
OTHE-10: Quantitative Systems Pharmacology: Linking mathematical biology to model informed drug development (MIDD) - Pharmacometrics Subgroup
Organized by: Marissa Renardy (Quantitative Systems Pharmacology, GSK), Kathryn G. Link, Quantitative Systems Pharmacology, Pfizer Inc.
- Olivia Walch (Arcascope) "Better drug discovery through circadian science: theoretical considerations for chronomedicine."
- Christian Michael (University of Michigan) "Regimen-ranking methodology influences outcomes in a multi-scale systems pharmacology model of tuberculosis treatment."
- Kathryn G. Link "Virtual Clinical Trial Simulations Using a Quantitative Systems Pharmacology (QSP) Model of Antibody Drug Conjugate (ADC) Therapy Disitamab Vedotin (DV) in Breast Cancer Patients."
- Angelica Davenport (Genmab) "Unraveling T cell Fate: Mapping the Road to Exhaustion with QSP Modeling and Pseudotime Analysis."
- Farrah Sadre-Marandi (qPharmetra) "Navigating Pediatric Dose Selection: Insights from Nifurtimox for Chugs Disease."
- Sarah Minucci (Certara) "A Quantitative Systems Pharmacology Model of Alzheimer's Disease to Predict Optimal Dosing Regimens for Reducing Amyloid Plaque and Tau."
- Morgan Craig (Universite de Montreal) "Using virtual clinical trials for immunotherapy target identification and regimen optimization."
- Panel Discussion "Panelists: Farrah Sandre-Marandi, Angelica Davenport, Sarah Minucci, Marissa Renardy; Moderator: Kathryn G. Link"
OTHE-11: Modeling Social and Political Ecosystems
Organized by: David Sabin-Miller (University of Michigan)
- Heather Zinn Brooks (Harvey Mudd College) "An opinion reproduction number for infodemics in a bounded-confidence content-spreading process on networks"
- Olivia Chu (Bryn Mawr College) "Adaptive network models and the dynamics of political polarization and social activism"
- Alexandria Volkening (Purdue University) "Forecasting U.S. elections with compartmental models of infection"
- David Sabin-Miller (University of Michigan) "Data-driven modeling of the US information-ideological ecosystem"
OTHE-12: Emerging areas in Mathematical Biology: Celebrating research from the Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Organized by: Veronica Ciocanel (Duke University), Hye-Won Kang, University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Scott McKinley (Tulane University) "Microtubule Polarity Dynamics in Dendrites"
- Pete Kramer (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) "Molecular Mechanisms in Actively Driven Passively Crosslinked Microtubule Pairs"
- Yangyang Wang (Brandeis University) "A conceptual framework for modeling a latching mechanism for cell cycle regulation"
- Wenrui Hao (Pennsylvania State University) "A Systematic Computational Framework for Practical Identifiability Analysis"
- Grzegorz Rempala (The Ohio State University) "Modeling Epidemics on Networks"
- Paul Hurtado (University of Nevada, Reno) "SIER-type ODE models with phase-type latent and infectious period distributions"
- Deena Schmidt (University of Nevada, Reno) "Modeling network formation in ecological systems."
- Katarzyna (Kasia) Rejniak (Moffitt Cancer Center) "Data-driven models for guiding adoptive cell therapies in bladder cancer"
OTHE-13: Emerging areas in Mathematical Biology: Celebrating research from the Mathematical Biosciences Institute
Organized by: Veronica Ciocanel (Duke University), Hye-Won Kang, University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Jae Kyoung Kim (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST)) "Math + AI + Wearables for Sleep and Mood Disorders"
- Janet Best (The Ohio State University) "Energy Allocation and Sleep Homeostasis."
- Punit Gandhi (Virginia Commonwealth University) "Using transformation information to characterize symmetry transitions"
- Anastasios Matzavinos (Universidad Catolica de Chile) "Chemotaxis and Stochastic Gradient Ascent: Fractional Brownian Motion in Optimization and Biological Models"