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Quantitative approaches to modelling and analysing cancer-immune interactions (II)

Organizers: Eszter Lakatos & Barbara Bravi​

15:00 – 15:20 – A dynamical model of PD-1/PD-L1 and CTLA-4 immune-checkpoint therapy / Presenting author: Kamran Kaveh.

15:20 – 15:40 – Stochastic mutation rate switching in reponse to immune selection in mismatch repair-deficient colorectal cancer (MMRd CRC) / Presenting author: Lauren McKenzie.

15:40 – 16:00 – Modeling the co-evolution of an evolving cancer and T-cell repertoire: challenges and exciting opportunities for mathematics to improve T-cell immunotherapy / Presenting author: Jason T. George.

16:00 – 16:20 – The interplay between the cancer cell and the immune microenvironment during cancer / Presenting author: Nicholas McGranahan.

Population dynamics (animals)

15:00 – 15:20 – Incorporating heterogenity in farmer disease control behaviour into a livestock disease transmission model / Presenting author: Edward Hill.

15:20 – 15:40 – A simulation model for porcine diseases in a farrow-to-finish pig farm with intra-herd transmission through animal and farmer movements / Presenting author: Jerrold M. Tubay.

15:40 – 16:00 – Identifying environmental and ecological risk factors for highly pathogenic avian influenza in wild birds / Presenting author: Joe Hilton.

16:00 – 16:20 – Bioeconomic modelling for sustainable biological control against a cabbage pest / Presenting author: Frédéric Grognard.

Applied multi-scale modelling methods in dynamic tissue remodelling

Organizers: Arran B. J. Hodkingson & Anna Zhigun​

15:00 – 15:20 – Towards modelling meniscus tissue regeneration – an interdisciplinary approach / Presenting author: Christina Surulescu.

15:20 – 15:40 – Multiscale modelling and analysis for Glioblastoma Multiforme progression and relapse / Presenting author: Dumitru Trucu.

15:40 – 16:00 – Mathematical modelling of cancer invasion: Phenotypic transitioning provides insight into multifocal foci formation / Presenting author: Zuzanna Szymanska.

16:00 – 16:20 – Hybrid modelling of spatially extended reaction-diffusion processes / Presenting author: Kit Yates.

Recent developments in biofilm modelling

Organizers: Maria Rosaria Mattei & Luigi Frunzo

10:40 – 11:00 – Immersed boundary models for biofilm spread and response to antibiotics / Presenting author: Ana Carpio.

11:00 – 11:20 – Estimating biofilm viscoelastic properties using a Bayesian framework / Presenting author: Nick Cogan.

11:20 – 11:40 – Biofilm accumulation and mass transport in porous media modeled by a PDE-ODE coupled system derived from a WannerGujer like compartment model of biofilm reactors / Presenting author: Hermann Eberl.

11:40 – 12:00 – Multiscale modeling of microbial community metabolism / Presenting author: Isaac Klapper.

Modelling heterogeneity, adaptation and evolution in cancer

Organizers: LEGRAND Carine & BONNET Céline

10:40 – 11:00 – The statistical physics of gene expression and mRNA expression heterogeneity / Presenting author: James Holehouse.

11:00 – 11:20 – Site frequency spectrum of a rescued population under rare resistant mutations / Presenting author: BONNET Céline.

11:20 – 11:40 – Deterministic modelling of cancer evolutionary dynamics: A phenotype-structured PDE approach / Presenting author: VILLA Chiara.

11:40 – 12:00 – Time-resolved, integrated analysis of clonally evolving genomes / Presenting author: LEGRAND Carine.

Quantitative approaches to modelling and analysing cancer-immune interactions (I)

Organizers: Eszter Lakatos​ & Barbara Bravi​

10:40 – 11:00 – A hybrid discrete-continuum modelling approach to explore the impact of T-Cell infiltration on anti-tumour immune response / Presenting author: Emma Leschiera

11:00 – 11:20 – Predicting T-cell receptor – peptide-MHC interactions: How can we bridge the two sides of the equations? / Presenting author: David Gfeller.

11:20 – 11:40 – Individual-based modelling of the interaction between cancer and T cells in vitro / Presenting author: Tomás Alarcón

11:40 – 12:00 – Immune evasion impacts the landscape of driver genes during cancer evolution / Presenting author: Luis Zapata Ortiz.

Unravelling brain physiology and pathology: the role of mathematical modelling

Organizers: Chiara Giverso & Giulio Lucci

10:40 – 11:00 – Incorporating phenotypic heterogeneity in mathematical models for the growth of brain tumours: A non-local reaction-diffusion approach / Presenting author: Francesca Ballatore

11:00 – 11:20 – Modeling the growth of brain metastases / Presenting author: Beatriz Ocaña Tienda.

11:20 – 11:40 – The multiscale mechanics of axonal growth / Presenting author: Hadrien Oliveri

11:40 – 12:00 – Spatial multi-scale model of tumor metaboslism / Presenting author: Angélique Stéphanou

Complexity science for biological and medical problems

Organizers: Jesús J. Bosque​

10:40 – 11:00 – Data-driven approaches to study the complexity of organelles / Presenting author: Konstantinos Giannakis.

11:00 – 11:20 – Using neuronal cultures as a model system for medicine: From complex networks to therapy / Presenting author: Jordi Soriano.

11:20 – 11:40 – IMathematical essence of aging / Presenting author: Uri Alon.

11:40 – 12:00 – Bridging networks for drug repurposing: Insightd from network medicine / Presenting author: Lucía Prieto Santamaría.