2020 October 31-November 1st, NIMBioS Institute, Knoxville, Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Biology and Mathematics

A poster: "Investigating Intratumoral Short-time Oxygen Fluctuations with Agent-based Model" presented by Jessica Kingsley

 

2020 September 21-23rd, PSON Annual Meeting of Investigators, virtual ~~ Celebrating a Decade of Physical Sciences in Oncology

A poster: "In silico tools for deconvolution of complex tumor microenvironments: Organoid3D and silicoDCIS" presented by Kasia Rejniak.

 

2020 August 24-28th, Virtual Physiological Human Conference -- When Models, Methods & Experiments Meet the Clinic (virtual)

A blue-jeans talk: "Predicting formation of ductal micro-invasions: integrating tumor histology with computational modeling" presented by Kasia Rejniak

 

2020 August 17-20th, SMB Annual Meeting, eSMB-2020 (virtual)

A zoom talk: "In silico tools for deconvolution of complex tumor microenvironments: Organoid3D and silicoDCIS" presented by Kasia Rejniak. The whole lab: Jessica Kingsley, Shreya Mathur and Luis SanJuan attended the meeting via SoCoCo platform.

 

2020 July 22nd, UBC Math-Bio Virtual Seminar

A virtual seminar at the Univeristy of British Columbia, Math-Bio Group entitled "Micro-pharmacology: recognizing and overcoming the tissue barriers to drug delivery" was given by Kasia Rejniak. link to the talk @mathtube

 

2020 July 9th, a new paper led by HIP-IMO Director Heiko Enderling: "High school Internship Program in Integrated Mathematical Oncology (HIP IMO): five-year experience at Moffitt Cancer Center" has been published by the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 82:91, doi:10.1007/s11538-020-00768-1; link to publication

 

2020 June 8th, Ms. Shreya Mathur from University of Florida has joined our lab as a research assistant to work on a research project: "Macrophages in the 3D Breast Tumor Microenvironments", in collaboration with lab of Dr. Brian Ruffell (Moffitt).

 

2020 June 3rd, our new paper "Comparison of drug inhibitory effects (IC50) in monolayer and sopheroid cultures" with Catherine Berrouet, Naika Dorilas and Necibe Tuncer from Florida Atlantic University has been published by the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 82(6):68, doi: 10.1007/s11538-020-00746-7; link to the article

 

	2020 May 21st, Moffitt Virtual Scientific Symposium
A poster abstract "Investigating Causes and Consequences of Variations in Tissue Metabolic Landscape on Tumor Cell Acclimation" by Jessica and Shreya was presented.

 

2020 May 6th, IMA Virtual Meeting on Tumor Microenvironment

Virtual workshop following up a cancelled meeting: "Quantitative Analysis and Mathematical Modeling to Capture Complex Dynamics of the Tumor Microenvironment". A short talk and discussions by Kasia Rejniak.

 

2020 April 30th, our recent review paper "Hybrid modeling frameworks of tumor development and treatment" with Ibrahim Chamseddine is among 10% the most dowloaded publications at WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine in 2019! link to publication

 

2020 March 20th, our new paper "Drug-induced resistance in micrometastases: analysis of spatio-temporal cell lineages" with Judith Perez-Velazquez has been published by Frontiers in Physiology, 11:319, special topic on Advances in Mathematical and Computational Oncology; doi: 10.3389/fphys.2020.00319 link to publication

 

2020 March 12th, Quantitative Science Division: π-Day Celebration!

 

		2020 March 2-3rd, final presentations of Dartmouth College students spending a semester at an off-campus program at Moffitt-IMO.
Yun (Mia) Miao working under the guidance of Kasia Rejniak presented a talk "Optimizing Adoptive T Cell Therapy by Exploring the Tumor Microenvironment Complexity". Great job, Mia!

 

	2020 March 2-5th, AACR conference "The Evolving Landscape of Cancer Modeling", San Diego, CA
A poster "In silico organoids: a model for deconvolution of microenvironmental and drug effects on tumor growth" has been presented by Kasia. This project is in collaboration with labs of Dr. McCawley and Dr. Markov from Vanderbilt University.

 

2020 February, our review paper "Hybrid modeling frameworks of tumor development and treatment" with Ibrahim Chamseddine has been published in the January/February issue of WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine 12(1):e1461; link to publication

 

2020 January 6th, Ms. Yan (Mia) Miao from Dartmouth College has joined our lab as a participant in the Dartmouth Collage Off-Campus Program in Mathematical Oncology to work on a research project: "Optimizing adoptive T cell therapy by exploring the tumor microenvironment complexity", in collaboration with lab of Dr. Pilon-Thomas (Moffitt).