Legend / Color-coding:
- MEPI (Mathematical Epidemiology)
- CDEV (Cell and Developmental Biology)
- EDUC (Education)
- IMMU (Immunobiology and Infection)
- NEUR (Mathematical Neuroscience)
- MFBM (Methods for Biological Modeling)
- POPD (Population Dynamics, Ecology & Evolution)
- ONCO (Mathematical Oncology)
- OTHE (Other)
Coffee with friends & colleagues
8:00am
Subgroup Keynote
8:30am
Deirdre Hollingsworth,
Oxford Big Data Institute, @DeirdreHoll
Mathematical Epidemiology Subgroup
Sub-group minisymposia (9:30-11:00am)
CDEV: Subgroup Contributed Talks (9:30-11:00am)
- Leonie van Steijn
Leiden University
"Regulation of persistent cell migration by the extracellular matrix" - Emine Atici Endes
Heriot-Watt University
"Modelling Scratch Wound Healing Assay using an Improved Non-local Equation" - Bradford Peercy
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
"A Minimal Model for STAT regulation in Initiation of Clustered Border Cell Migration" - Ulrich Dobramysl
University of Cambridge
"Sensing and triangulation of chemical gradients" - Dimitris Goussis
Khalifa University, UAE
"Endogenous and exogenous IgG competing for FcRn receptors: multi-scale analysis"
IMMU: Immunobiology and Infection Minisymposium (9:30-11:00am)
- Rob de Boer
Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
"Why do some populations of cells accumulate deuterium faster than lose it?" - Katia Koelle
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
"Considering the consequences of cellular coinfection in within-host viral dynamics and modeling" - Carmen Molina Paris
University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
"A stochastic Model of Infection: Francisella T ularensis" - Catherine Weathered
Purdue University, West Lafayette
"Mycobacterium Avium infection in the lungs: effects of bacterial phenotype and biofilm"
MEPI: Modeling COVID-19 to inform control efforts, Part II (9:30-11:00am)
- Annelies Wilder-Smith
Umea University
"COVID-19 Outbreak on the Diamond Princess Cruise Ship: Estimating the Epidemic Potential and Effectiveness of Public Health Countermeasures" - Samuel Clifford
LSHTM
"Can traveller interventions delay a local outbreak?" - Jonathan Dushoff
McMaster University
"Time distributions and coronavirus control" - Caroline Colijn
Simon Fraser University
"Modelling and estimation for COVID19: classic estimates of key parameters and the role of genomic data"
MFBM: Topological and network analyses for data (9:30-11:00am)
- Maria-Veronica Ciocanel
Duke University, United States, ciocanel@math.duke.edu
"Ring Channel Dynamics using Topological Data Analysis" - John Lagergren
NC State, United States, jhlagerg@ncsu.edu
"Biologically-informed neural networks guide mechanistic modeling from sparse experimental data" - John Nardini
NC State, United States, jtnardin@ncsu.edu
"Analyzing Collective Motion with Machine Learning and Topology" - Adelie Garin
EPFL, Switzerland, adelie.garin@epfl.ch
"Topological Data Analysis for (biological) image analysis"
ONCO: Multiscale models of cancer heterogeneity, with applications in drug development and precision medicine (9:30-11:00am)
- Matthias Reuss
Stuttgart Research Center Systems Biology, University of Stuttgart
"Spatial-temporal multiscale modelling and simulation of vascular tumour growth - development of new multicellular simulators based on structural consistency between model and computer architecture" - Holger Perfahl
Stuttgart Research Center Systems Biology, University of Stuttgart
"Hybrid Modelling of Transarterial Chemoembolisation Therapies (TACE) for Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)" - Samuel Handelman
Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
"Incorporation of morphological features to inverse problems in high-content screening of anti-cancer therapies" - Harsh Jain
Mathematics, Florida state University
"A Standing Variation Model of Prostate Cancer Response to Live Cell Vaccination"
OTHE: Eco-evolutionary dynamics across scales of organisation (9:30-11:00am)
- Paula Vasconcelos
Uppsala
"How does joint evolution of consumer traits affect resource specialization?" - Lynn Govaert
Eawag
"Towards an integrated theory of eco-evolutionary communities" - Charles Mullon
Lausanne
"Eco-evolutionary dynamics under non-random interactions" - Josep Sardanyés
CRM Barcelona
"Dynamics of cooperation: from origins of life to ecosystems"
POPD: Mathematical models of evolutionary rescue (9:30-11:00am)
- Stephan Peischl
University of Berne
"The effect of gene flow on evolutionary rescue" - Robert Noble
ETH Zurich
"The logic of containing tumours" - Mario Santer
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology
"Evolutionary Rescue and Drug Resistance on Multicopy Plasmids" - Jacek Miękisz
University of Warsaw
"Evolution of populations with strategy- dependent time delays"
15 minute break (11:00-11:15am)
Sub-group minisymposia (11:15am)
CDEV: Shapes, patterns, and forces in development biology (11:15am-12:45pm)
- Steffen Rulands
Max Planck Institute
"Setting up the epigenome: a collective phenomenon" - Alessandra Bonfanti
University of Cambridge
"Characterising the rheology of soft tissues using Fractional Viscoelastic models" - Mathias Sonja
Uppsala University
"Impact of force function formulations on the numerical simulation of center-based models" - Clinton Durney
UBC
"Quantifying cellular contributions to salivary gland tubulogenesis"
IMMU: Immunobiology and Infection Minisymposium (11:15am-12:45pm)
- Cristian van Dorp
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
"Stochastic viral dynamics modeling of time series from HIV-1 cure experiments in macaque and mouse models" - Stanca Ciupe
Virginia Tech, Department of Mathematics, Blacksburg, VA, USA
"Understanding the antiviral effects of RNAi-based therapy on chronic hepatitis B infection" - Ruy Ribeiro
Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
"How do CD8+ T cells control HIV infection?" - Eva Stadler
University of New South Wales, Sydney
"Heterogeneity in the risk of latent malaria parasite reactivation explains the timing and pattern of infection recurrences in (Plasmodium vivax) malaria endemic settings"
MEPI: COVID-19 Contributed Talks II (11:15am-12:45pm)
- Nicholas Steyn
University of Auckland
"The effect of border controls on the risk of COVID-19 re-incursion in New Zealand" - Lin Wang
University of Cambridge
"Serial interval of SARS-CoV-2 was substantially shortened over time by non-pharmaceutical interventions" - Louise Dyson
University of Warwick
"The impact of contact networks upon SARS-CoV-2 transmission in workplaces and universities" - Robin Thompson
University of Oxford
"Mathematical modelling in the earliest stages of the COVID-19 pandemic"
MFBM: Topological and network analyses for data (11:15am-12:45pm)
- Samuel Heroy
University of Oxford, United Kingdom, samuel.heroy@maths.ox.ac.uk
"Rigidity percolation in random rod networks" - Yu-Min Chung
UNC Greensboro, United States, y_chung2@uncg.edu
"On the morphology of mitochondria via a multi-parameter persistent homology approach" - Alexandria Volkenning
Northwestern University, United States, alexandria.volkening@northwestern.edu
"Topological data analysis of zebrafish skin patterns" - Ashish Raj
UCSF, United States, ashish.raj@ucsf.edu
"Inference on models of network spread and protein aggregation in Alzheimer’s and dementia"
ONCO: Data-based modeling in cancer research with focus on clinical applications (11:15am-12:45pm)
- David Cheek
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University
"DNA sequence evolution in the Yule process" - Christoph Engel
Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology (IMISE), University of Leipzig
"Utility of specialized clinical registries for knowledge-generating care in oncology: Results from two large German consortia on hereditary cancer predisposition syndromes" - Saskia Haupt
Engineering Mathematics and Computing Lab (EMCL), Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing (IWR), Heidelberg University
"Modeling multiple pathways in hereditary colorectal cancer development" - Matthias Kloor
Department of Applied Tumor Biology, Heidelberg University Hospital
"From disease models to clinical applications — lessons from Lynch syndrome colorectal cancer"
POPD: Subgroup Contributed Talks (11:15am-12:45pm)
- Joany Mariño
Memorial University
"Symbiosis increases population size and mitigates environmental fluctuations in a physiologically-structured model parameterized for bivalves" - Catherine Wangen
Utah State University
"Modeling phenological consequences of warming climate for a southern population of mountain pine beetle" - Maria Martignoni
University of British Columbia Okanagan
"Mathematical insights into mechanisms leading to coexistence and competitive exclusion among mutualist guilds"
Subgroup Business Meeting
Sub-group contributed talks (1:30-2:30pm)
CDEV: Subgroup Contributed Talks (1:30-2:30pm)
- Jonathan Harrison
University of Warwick
"Hierarchical Bayesian modelling of chromosome segregation allows characterisation of a distinct dynamic signature of errors in cell division" - Marcin Zagorski
Jagiellonian University
"How is information decoded in developmental systems?" - Tim Liebisch
Frankfurt Inst. of Advanced Study
"Cell Fate Clusters in ICM Organoids Arise from Cell Fate Heredity & Division – a Modelling Approach"
IMMU: Subgroup Contributed Talks (1:30-2:30pm)
- Esteban Abelardo Hernandez Vargas
Universidad Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
"In-host Mathematical Modelling of COVID-19 in Humans" - (CANCELLED) Christopher Rowlatt
University of St Andrews
"(CANCELLED) Modelling the within-host spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection, and subsequent immune response, using a hybrid multi-scale individual-based model" - Rajat Desikan
Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
"Targeting TMPRSS2 and Cathepsin B/L together may be synergistic against SARS-CoV-2 infection"
MEPI: Subgroup Contributed Talks (1:30-2:30pm)
- Laura Strube
Virginia Tech
"The role of repeat infection in the dynamics of a simple model of waning and boosting immunity" - Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem
Lehigh University
"Mathematical assessment of the impact of human-antibodies on sporogony during the within-mosquito dynamics of Plasmodium falciparum parasites" - Maia Martcheva
University of Florida
"Coinfection Dynamics of Heroin Transmission and HIV Infection in a Single Population"
MFBM: Subgroup contributed talks (1:30-2:30pm)
- Rui Borges
Vetmeduni Vienna, Austria, ruiborges23@gmail.com
"Consistency and identifiability of the polymorphism-aware phylogenetic models" - Zoe Lange
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studie, Germany, zlange@fias.uni-frankfurt.de
"Force Inference – Estimating the dynamics of mechanical forces in epithelial tissues from time-lapse images" - Anastasios Matzavinos
Brown University, United States, tasos@brown.edu
"Bayesian uncertainty quantification for particle-based simulation of lipid bilayer membranes"
ONCO: Subgroup Contributed Talks (1:30-2:30pm)
- Pirmin Schlicke
Chair for Mathematical Modeling at the Center of Mathematics, Technical University of Munich, Germany
"How Mathematical Modeling Could Contribute to the Quantification of Metastatic Tumor Burden Under Therapy" - Maximilian Strobl
Department of Integrated Mathematical Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center Tampa, USA
"Personalising adaptive cancer therapy in theory and in practice: the role of resistance costs and cellular competition" - Johannes Reiter
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA
"A mathematical model of ctDNA shedding predicts tumor detection size"
OTHE: Other Contributed Talks (1:30-2:30pm)
- Anne Talkington
Chapel Hill
"A PBPK model for clearance of PEGylated nanomedicines" - Tatiana Marquez-Lago
UAB
"Mathematical methods for microbiome research" - Camile Kunz
Goethe U.
"Chemotaxis impact on pattern formationChemotaxis impact on pattern formation"
POPD: Subgroup Contributed Talks (1:30-2:30pm)
- Peter Jagers
Chalmers & University of Gothenburg
"Galton and Watson were (almost) right: virtually all populations are eventually extinct" - Max Souza
Universidade Federal Fluminense
"Fitness potentials and qualitative properties of the Wright-Fisher dynamics" - Matthew Nitschke
University of Adelaide
"The effect of bottleneck size on evolution in nested darwinian populations"
Competitive and cooperative interactions between resistant and sensitive breast cancer cells during therapy
Our research focuses on estrogen receptor positive breast (ER+) cancer, the most commonly diagnosed and metastatic subtype. In a tumor, neighboring subclonal cancer cell populations interact both through competition for resources and through cooperation, by the production of growth promoting signals. Promoting competition can maintain drug sensitivity when resistant cells get outcompeted. Cooperation can promote cell survival under selective pressure, as well as potentially protect cellular populations that may otherwise be susceptible to treatment. Our research program integrates three key components to quantify cancer cell interactions: serial patient tumor samples molecularly profiled at the single cell level, a parallel in vitro model system where mechanisms can be tested through experimental manipulation and measured over time, and integrative dynamic mathematical models of the growth and interaction of subclonal cancer populations. By embedding the time course data and differential equation models into a Bayesian inference framework, we can estimate the strength of positive and negative interactions between subclonal populations during treatment and identify key mechanisms driving cell communication. Our analyses of patient derived samples further indicates that heterogeneous multi-clonal ER+ breast cell populations evolve to acquire alternative signaling states that drive cell cycle progression independent of estrogen availability, and that cells can cooperate to survive during therapy through the increased production and local sharing of growth promoting factors.