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2024 June 30-July 5th, Annual meeting of the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) joined with the Korean Society for Mathematical Biology (KSMB), Seoul, Korea

Podium talk "Investigating cell-stroma physical interactions in DCIS progression with silicoDCIS" was presented by Ana.

 

2024 June 26th, HIP-IMO midterm presentations

Jai presented an outline of his project on ACT-TIL treatment scheduling. Haarika presented plans for her project on handling missing data in a clinical predictor. Eros presented his ideas on modeling CAR T cell therapy in tumor microenvironment.

 

2024 June 18th, IMO Research in Progress seminar

Angela and Bari presented summary of their work "Modeling macrophages-breast tumor interactions under ER inhibitors in 2D & 3D microenvironments"

 

2024 June 14th, HIP-IMO Journal Club Meeting

Haarika presented a paper on machine learning methods in clinical research, Eros presented a paper on data analysis using multiplex images, and Jai presented a paper on sensitivity analysis of tissue oxygenation model.

 

2024 June 10-13th, Bi-annual meeting of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Life Science group (SIAM-LS)

Podium talks were be presented by Kayode and Kasia in two minisymposia they have organized.

 

2024 June 3rd, Ms. Haarika Makam, Mr. Eros Prieto, and Mr. Jai Padhya have joined our lab as HIP-IMO program participants. Haarika will work under the mentorship of Kayode, Jai under the mentorship of Maureiq, and Eros under the mentorship of Kasia.

 

May 30th, 2024, blog "Navigating Tumor Evolution: Tracing Tumor Clones' Travel in Space with LinG3D" describing our LinG3D paper, written by Angela Hu, Maureiq Ojwang', Kayode Olumoyin, and Kasia Rejniak has been posted at MathOnco: link to the blog

 

May 16th, 2024, a new paper "LinG3D: Visualizing the Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Clonal Evolution" by Angela Hu, Maureiq Ojwang', Kayode Olumoyin, and Kasia Rejniak has been published by BMC Bioinformatics. link to publication

 

2024 May 15-17th, Biology and Medicine Through Mathematics Conference (BAMM!), Richmond, Virginia.

Maureiq will present a talk: "A histological data-driven analysis of the hypoxic microenvironment of preclinical murine bladder tumors"

 

May 12th, 2024, a new book chapter "Histology-guided mathematical model of tumor oxygenation: sensitivity analysis of physical and computational parameters" by Maureiq Ojwang, Sarah Bazargan, Joseph Johnson, Shari Pilon-Thomas, and Kasia Rejniak has been acceted to be part of the Springer volume "Proceedings of 2022 AWM Research Symposium" from the Springer "Association for Women in Mathematics Series."

 

2024 May 7-8th, 14th Annual Moffitt Scientific Symposium, Moffitt.

Podium talk will be presented by Kayode. Posters will be presented by Maureiq, Ana, and jointly Angela and Bari.

 

March 8th, 2024, a new preprint "Histology-guided mathematical model of tumor oxygenation: sensitivity analysis of physical and computational parameters" by Maureiq Ojwang, Sarah Bazargan, Joseph Johnson, Shari Pilon-Thomas, and Kasia Rejniak has been published by BioRxiv, link to publication

 

March 8th, 2024, a new preprint "Visualizing the Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Clonal Evolution with LinG3D Software" by Angela Hu, Maureiq Ojwang, Kayode Olumoyin, and Kasia Rejniak has been published by BioRxiv, link to publication

 

March 7th, 2024, our npj Systems Biology and Applications paper: "Exploring chronic and transient tumor hypoxia for predicting the efficacy of hypoxia-activated pro-drugs" has been featured as a cover for "This week in Mathematical Oncology Blog". Click here!

 

February 18-20th, SMB MathEpiOnco 2024 (virtual), a conference of Mathematical Epidemiology and Mathematical Oncology subgroups of SMB

Kayode presented a talk: "From COVID-19 to melanoma: modeling time-varying treatment response using an epidemiology-informed neural network"

 

January 19-20th, 2024 Scientific Computing Around Louisiana (SCALA), Lousiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

	Kasia was one of three keynote speakers and presented a talk: "Mathematical modeling of tumor microenvironment"
	Rubaiyat and Moslem presented a talk: "Building an interactive modular app for the microscale pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics (microPKPD) model"

 

2024 January 5th, a new paper "Exploring chronic and transient tumor hypoxia for predicting the efficacy of hypoxia-activated pro-drugs " led by Shreya Mathur and Shannon Chen, and inspited by experiments in late Robert Gillies lab has been published in npj Systems Biology and Applications, link to the article