Collective behaviour across scales: drawing parallels from cells to humans
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Organizers: Andrei Sontag & Kit Yates​
10:40 – 11:00 – Self-organitation in multicellular syste from collective motion to stem cell pattering / Presenting author: David Brückner.
11:00 – 11:20 – Mechanims underlying synchronization during collective hunting in social spiders / Presenting author: Violette Chiara.
11:20 – 11:40 – Collective decision making in locust groups / Presenting author: Kit Yates.
11:40 – 12:00 – Pathways for overturning consensus in human collective decision-making / Presenting author: Andrei Sontag.
Thermodynamics of living systems
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Organizers: Maarten Droste & Robert Planqué​ /
10:40 – 11:00 – Opening the black box: Thermodynamics of microbial growth / Presenting author: Oliver Ebenhöh.
11:00 – 11:20 – Combining thermodynamic, kinetic and physiological tools to unravel basic and applied problems in microbiology / Presenting author: Karel Olavarria.
11:20 – 11:40 – Network-wide thermodynamic contraints shape NAD(P)H cofactor specificity of metabolic reactions / Presenting author: Steffen Klamt.
11:40 – 12:00 – Thermodynamic modeling for metabolic pathways / Presenting author: Elad Noor.
Emerging data driven approaches for increasing the prediction and understanding of biological processes
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Organizers: Joanne Dunster & Sara Jabbari​
10:40 – 11:00 – Feature selection and parameter inference with sparsley sampled data via lasso and global optimization / Presenting author: Rahma Abdulahi.
11:00 – 11:20 – Building interpretable machine learning models from omics data to better understand biology / Presenting author: Rachel Cavill.
11:20 – 11:40 – Mechanical regulation and cell cycle dynamics in models of collective cell migration / Presenting author: Carles Falcó.
11:40 – 12:00 – Reducing uncertaintly in ion channel models via experimental design and accounting for experimental artefacts / Presenting author: Gary Mirams.
Epidemics and human behaviour (II)
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10:40 – 11:00 – Spatial characterisation of residual disease in environmentally mediated drug resistance / Presenting author: Amy Milne.
11:00 – 11:20 – Mathematical modelling of stem and progenitor cell dynamics during ruxolitinib treatment of MPN patients. / Presenting author: Tobias Idor Boklund.
11:20 – 11:40 – Mathematical modeling of platelet formation in healthy individuals and blood cancer patients / Presenting author: Chenxu Zhu.
11:40 – 12:00 – Modelling laser-induced thermal ablation: incorporating tissue water concentration and its vaporization effects for liver cancer treatment / Presenting author: Federico Herrero Hervás.
New directions for stochastic models of epidemics (I)
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Organizers: Jacob Curran-Sebastian & Thomas House.
10:40 – 11:00 – Long-term behaviour of a stochastic epidemic in a growing population / Presenting author: Malwina Luczak
11:00 – 11:20 – Applications of Bayesian stochastic hierarchical models in epidemiology / Presenting author: Punya Alahakoon.
11:20 – 11:40 – Using Hawkes process to model malaria in countries close to elimination / Presenting author: Juliette Unwin.
11:40 – 12:00 – A Bayesian SEIR modelling approach to quantifying the impact of COVID-19 Vaccination on lives saved in Sweden 2021 / Presenting author: Fanny Bergström.
Cancer (miscellaneous)
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10:40 – 11:00 – Spatial characterisation of residual disease in environmentally mediated drug resistance / Presenting author: Amy Milne.
11:00 – 11:20 – Mathematical modelling of stem and progenitor cell dynamics during ruxolitinib treatment of MPN patients. / Presenting author: Tobias Idor Boklund.
11:20 – 11:40 – Mathematical modeling of platelet formation in healthy individuals and blood cancer patients / Presenting author: Chenxu Zhu.
11:40 – 12:00 – Modelling laser-induced thermal ablation: incorporating tissue water concentration and its vaporization effects for liver cancer treatment / Presenting author: Federico Herrero Hervás.
Pattern formation (I)
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10:40 – 11:00 – Pattern formation in mechanochemical models / Presenting author: Daphne Nesenberend.
11:00 – 11:20 – Phase separation approach for investigating the impact of organic molcules and phosphate ions on formationof biosilica pattern in diatoms / Presenting author: Svetlana Petrenko.
11:20 – 11:40 – Turing and Wave instabilities in water-biomass-toxicity models for patterned vegetation dynamics/ Presenting author: Giancarlo Consolo.
11:40 – 12:00 – Pattern formation in stochastic reaction-difussion systems/ Presenting author: Fraser Waters.
Data-driven approaches in infectious disease modelling
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Organizers: Necibe Tuncer & Stanca Ciupe
10:40 – 11:00 – Simple models of epidemic control through mass-testing / Presenting author: Andrea Pugliese.
11:00 – 11:20 – Data-dependent limits to modeling viral dynamics and epidemic spreading / Presenting author: Mario Castro Pence.
11:20 – 11:40 – Multi-scale modelling of inhalational anthrax / Presenting author: Bevelynn Williams.
11:40 – 12:00 – The effect of model structure and data availability on Usutu virus dynamics at three biological scales / Presenting author: Necibe Tuncer.
Developmental biology
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10:40 – 11:00 – A model of self-organizing axon pathfinding in the fly visual system / Presenting author: Eric Reifenstein.
11:00 – 11:20 – Mini-models unleashed: Decoding Zygotic genome activation in zebrafish / Presenting author: Jacques Hermes.
11:20 – 11:40 – Dynamics of positional information in the vertebrate neural tube / Presenting author: Andela Markovic.
11:40 – 12:00 – Attraction and repulsion within cell populations on growing spatial domains / Presenting author: Alf Gerisch.
Microbiology (II)
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10:40 – 11:00 – A flux balance analysis model for the ammonia-oxidizing archaeon N. viennensis / Presenting author: Rustem Musaev.
11:00 – 11:20 – Multiscale infant gut model predicts that milk oligosaccharides decrease mucin comsuption by feeding bacteria that don’t share public goods / Presenting author: David M. Versluis.
11:20 – 11:40 – Can smoking alter psychology? / Presenting author: Siti Maghfirotul Ulyah.
11:40 – 12:00 – Spatial distancing: Modeling immune evasion by the human-pathogenic fungus Candida albicans / Presenting author: Yann Bachelot