8Rejniak Moffitt Research Lab
Rejniak Lab: News

*2020 December 18th, a virtual poster has been accepted to present at the AACR-The Evolving Tumor Microenvironment in Cancer Progression to be held in January 2021.

* 2020 November 4th, Ms. Angela Hu joined our lab as an intern.

* 2020 October 31st-November 1st, a virtual Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Biology and Mathematics at the NIMBioS Institute, a poster presentation given by Jessica Kingsley.

* 2020 October 16th, a virtual seminar talk at the University of Birmingham given by Kasia Rejniak.

* 2020 October 6th, Moffitt Radiology Research Seminar, a join talk presented by Jimmy Costello, Natarajan Raghunand and Kasia Rejniak.

* 2020 Septemebr 21-23rd, Virtual Annual Meeting of PSON Investigators ~~ Celebrating a Decade of Physical Sciences in Oncology

* 2020 August 24-28th, Virtual Physiological Human: When Models, Methods & Experiments Meet the Clinic, a virtual conference; talk presentated by Kasia Rejniak.

* 2020 August 17-20th, eSMB2020 -- SMB Annual Meeting, a first virtual SMB conference; talk presented by Kasia Rejniak.

* 2020 July 22nd, a virtual seminar talk at the University of British Columbia given by Kasia Rejniak.

* 2020 July 9th, a new paper: "High school Internship Program in Integrated Mathematical Oncology (HIP IMO): five-year experience at Moffitt Cancer Center" led by Heiko Enderling has been published in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology.

* 2020 June 8th, Ms. Shreya Mathur joined our lab as a research assistant.

* 2020 June 3rd, our new paper has been published by the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology.

* 2020 May 21st, Moffitt Virtual Scientific Symposium, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa

* 2020 May 6th, IMA Virtual Meeting on Tumor Microenvironment

* 2020 April 30th, our recent review paper made to the list of the most downloaded publications at WIREs in 2019!

* 2020 March 20th, our new paper has been published by Frontiers in Physiology, special topic on Advances in Mathematical and Computational Oncology.

* 2020 March 12th, Quantitative Sciences Division π-Day Celebration.

* 2020 March 2-3rd, Dartmouth Off-Campus Program final presentations; podium talk presented by Mia Miao.

* 2020 March 2-5th, AACR Conference on The Evolving Landscape of Cancer Modeling, San Diego, CA; poster presentation by Kasia Rejniak.

* 2020 February, our review paper has been published in the January/February issue of WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine.

* 2020 January 6th, Ms. Yan (Mia) Miao joined our lab as an undergraduate research intern.

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2020 November 4th, Ms. Angela (Anjun) Hu from University of South Florida has joined our lab as an intern participating in the "3D cell lineages" project.

 

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).