Abstracts

All abstracts are reviewed by the organizing committee before being accepted.

Contributed Talks

Mathilde Badoual Modeling glioblastoma with cell-cell and cell-substrate interactions
Ricardo Ruiz Baier Weak solutions for a two-sidedly degenerate chemotaxis model with volume-filling effect related to the p-laplacian operator
Jared Barber Simulated Two-Dimensional Red Blood Cell Motion, Deformation, and Partitioning in Microvessel Bifurcations
Sally S Bell Modelling the effects of disease on the speed of ecological invasions.
Victoria Brown The effects of behavioural patterns on the potential success of the HPV vaccine.
Paula Budu-Grajdeanu Quantifying the advantages of early intervention on Lupus Nephritis flares
Field Cady Open-System Thermodynamic Analysis of DNA Polymerase Fidelity
Sue Ann Campbell Phase Models with Time Delay
Thomas W. Carr Modeling of cancer virotherapy with recombinant measles viruses
Farida Chamchod An epidemic model with host cross-immunity to a continuum of strains.
Dr. Arnaud Chauvière A “Go or Rest” model for cell migration. A step forward toward the “Go or Grow” modelling
Jiawei Chiu Turing Pattern Formation in Stochastic Reaction-Subdiffusion Systems
Deborah Cromer Low red cell production may protect against severe anemia during a malaria infection – Insights from modeling.
Kim Cuddington Ecosystem engineering in predator-prey interactions
Christopher DeHaan Using Phylogenetics and Mutual Information to Identify Coevolving Sites in Protein Families
Christophe DEROULERS Modeling the migration of cancer cells: from microscopic to macroscopic models
Mirela Domijan Stoichiometric network analysis and graph theoretic methods for studying spatial models of chemical reaction networks
Donald A. Drew Random Spatial Networks: A Biological Solution to the Structure/Transport/Connection Problem
Omer Dushek Analysis of serial engagement and peptide-MHC transport in T cell receptor microclusters
Ken Eames Epidemic control in weighted social networks
Sarah Eastburn Mathematical modelling of the gastrointestinal epithelium stem cell niche.
Amina Eladdadi A Mathematical Model for the Effects of HER2 Over expression on Cell Cycle Progression in Breast Cancer
Heiko Enderling Modeling early tumor development dynamics - implications for treatment design
Bernard Fendler Synchronization Of Insulin Secretion Through Intrapancreatic Ganglia
Edward Flach Myotome formation and the importance of shape
Charles M. Fortmann Channel mechanisms for structural basis for the Hodgkin and Huxley relation
R D van Gaalen The effect of antioxidant supplementation on the viral load of HIV
David Gerberry Tuberculosis: Should we be vaccinating?
J M Grant Sexual Moran Model: Theory and Simulation
Rudy Gunawan Bayesian Methodology Applied to A Phase II Relapsed Ovarian Cancer Study
Haralambos Hatzikirou "Go or Grow": the key to the emergence of invasion in tumor progression?
David Hiebeler The Inseparability of Spatial and Temporal Clustering in a Population Model with Spatially Correlated Disturbances
David Irons Feedback, ratios and robustness in Hedgehog signaling
Jihyoun Jeon Evaluation of screening strategies for pre-malignant lesions using a biomathematical approach
Jeyaraman, Srividhya Can delays replace Phosphorylation – dephosphorylation cycles in signaling cascades?
Charlotte Jupp A mathematical model for the formation of feather germs
Rowland R. Kao Static Representation of Epidemics on Well-characterised Dynamic Networks
Nader EL KHATIB Mathematical Modeling of the Blood-Atheroma Plaque Interaction
Dr Istvan Zoltan Kiss The effect of network mixing patterns on epidemic dynamics and the efficacy of disease contact tracing
Dr Anil Kumar Analytical Study of Blood Flow with Periodic Body Acceleration in the Presence of Magnetic Field
Anita T. Layton Tubuloglomerular Feedback Signal Transduction In a Model of a Compliant Thick Ascending Limb
Chang Hyeong Lee Reduction methods for multiple-time-scale biochemical reaction networks
Greg Lemon Mathematical modelling of tissue-engineered angiogenesis
Florian Lipsmeier Rare event simulation for T cells recognising foreign antigens
Xinfeng Liu Spatially-localized scaffold proteins may simultaneously boost and supress signaling
James Lu Elucidating the HPA axis stress response via computational inverse analysis
Victor Luria Specification of motor axon trajectory by ephrin-B:EphB signaling reveals symmetrical control of axonal patterning in the developing limb
Shev MacNamara Existence and uniqueness of the total quasi-steady-state approximation for coupled systems of enzyme kinetics
Susan Christine Massey Parameter sensitivity investigation of a mathematical model of glioma tumorigenesis mediated by platelet-derived growth factor
Jorge Mazzeo “Estimation of scaling index on space records of cell proliferation in the developing central nervous system”
Ramit Mehr Modeling Natural Killer Cell Development and Repertoire Formation
Sandra Merchant Wavetrain selection following predator invasions in oscillatory reaction-diffusion systems.
Stefan Mueller Model identification from noisy data: solving ill-posed inverse problems using regularization
Mr James Osborne A Computational Framework for Simulating Multiphase Models of Tissue Growth.
Patwa, Zaheerabbas Sensitive dependence of fixation probability on life history: The lytic virus case.
Claire Postlethwaite Optimal movement and motor capacity in a short-range aquatic predator
Gibin Powathil Mathematical Modeling of Brain Tumor and Related Therapeutic Strategies
Armin Rashidi Evolution of asymmetric division: an in-silico model
Katarzyna A. Rejniak Cell collaboration and competition during the formation of epithelial acini and their mutants - an integrative model
Lisa Rogers A Mathematical Model of the Human Sleep/Wake Cycle
Dr. Tiina Roose Network development in biological gels: Role in lymphatic vessel development.
Sivan Rottenstreich A Coalescent Theory Analysis of the Population Structure Statistic F_st
Marc R. Roussel A tunable biochemical band-pass filter robust to internal noise
David Schley Mathematical modelling of foot-and-mouth disease virus - epithelium dynamics to identify the determinants of lytic behaviour.
Timothy Schlub Clonal expansion determines CD8⁺ T cell phenotype in vivo.
Schehrazad SELMANE Population Behaviour towards Voluntary BCG Vaccination Policies
Nuno Sepúlveda Diversity and shape of peripheral effector and regulatory T cell repertoires: validating the Crossregulation model with experimental data
Rebecca Shipley A "Vuggy" Medium Approach to Fluid and Drug Transport in Tumours
Matthew J Simpson Simulating invasion: Macroscopic and microscopic approaches
Somdatta Sinha Propagation of extrinsic perturbation in a multi-step biochemical pathway
Amber M. Smith Life or Death: Complement Activation and Response to a Streptococcus pneumoniae Infection
Charles E. Smith One and Two Compartment Stochastic Integrate-and-Fire Neural Models
Sean Speziale A poroelastic model of transcapillary flow
Magdalena Stolarska A Computational Model of Cell-Substrate Interaction in Three Dimensions
Emily Stone Detecting spill-over: A dynamical systems modeling approach to glutamatergic synaptic signaling
Barbara Szomolay Inhibition of breast cancer growth by GM-CSF: A mathematical model
Graeme Thorn The Interaction of Swimming Microorganisms With Flow: Modelling Motile Phytoplankton in Turbulence
Dr. Mike Tildesley Modelling the spread of foot-and-mouth disease in the USA
Marcus Tindall Spatiotemporal Modelling of Intracellular Signalling in Bacterial Chemotaxis
Spencer Tipping Modeling the Effects of Genetic Drift and Natural Selection with Discrete Simulation
Colin Turner Modeling cancer stem cells: Implications for novel therapeutic strategies
Jack A. Tuszynski A mean field Ising model for cortical rotation in amphibian one cell stage embryos
Alejandra C Ventura Bidirectional information transfer in intracellular signaling: theory and experiments
Vanessa Venturi A simulation approach to understanding the role of production frequency in the sharing of T cell receptors between macaques in immune responses to simian immunodeficiency virus
Jon-Paul Voroney Modeling the relationship between radiotherapy delay and cancer outcomes
Justin Wan Rigid and Nonrigid Registration Methods for Medical Images
Xujing Wang Incorporating prior knowledge to the dynamic Bayesian networks modeling of pancreas development gene expression data
Sarah Waters Crystal aggregation and deposition in the catheterised lower urinary tract
Jonathan Wattis Mathematical modelling of LDL and VLDL endocytosis by HepG2 cells.
Steven Webb Epidemiological interactions between the local and the mean-field
Rosie Williams Modelling combined phototaxis and gyrotaxis in suspensions of swimming microorganisms
Xiangrong Xin A systematic model of bacterial chemotaxis: from signal transduction to cell motility in Escherichia coli.
Lilit Yeghiazarian A multi-scale model of HIV-1 transmission
Brian Yurk Modeling the evolution of insect phenology: Can insect populations adapt to climate change?
Qi Zheng A new discrete distribution induced by the Luria-Delbruck mutation model

Posters

Ian Besse A model of cardiac action potential: incorporating the caveolae-associated sodium current
Anna Cai Modeling a cell population with intracellular threshold dependent differentiation
Thomas W. Carr An SIR epidemic model with partial temporary immunity modeled with delay
David Chan Modeling of gene dispersal in a natural forest system
Ching-Shan Chou Robust Cell Polarization
Moritz Gerstung Estimating mutational pathways of carcinogenesis
Heather Hardway Models for Robust Protein Gradients in the Drosophila Embryo
Andreas Hellander Simulation of spatially inhomogenous cellular reaction networks on unstructured meshes
Caner Kazanci Indirect relations in ecosystems: An individual based approach
Daniel Kern Optimal Control Model for Cancer Chemotherapy Subject to Drug Resistance
Karen O'Connell and Dianne Kopp Separating the Effects of Genetic Drift and Natural Selection Using a Modification of Tajima's D Statistic
Dr Anil Kumar Mathematical Modelling of Blood Flow Through Magnetic Effects
Victor Luria Noise-based rules govern neural circuit assembly
Omid Massoudifar Use path analysis and regression for wheat characterizes in dry land condition
Ramit Mehr Models for Antigen Receptor Gene Rearrangement: CDR3 Length
Ramit Mehr Antigen-Driven Selection In Germinal Centers As Reflected By The Shape Characteristics Of Immunoglobulin Gene Lineage Trees: A Large-Scale Simulation Study
Jonathan L. Mitchell Recurrent intrahost epidemics in a model of Malaria with binary immune response
Marcio Duarte Albasini Mourao Stochastic simulation of cortical microtubules array in plant systems
Yuanyi Pan Linear assumption or dynamic system - A study to sex ratio in China
Suzanne Robertson Spatial patterns in stage-structured populations with density-dependent dispersal
Russell Rockne Three dimensional simulation of glioma growth and response to radiation therapy: a case study
Abhinav Singh Inverted fish biomass pyramid in coral reefs
Vladas Skakauskas Modelling of the population dynamics with complex structure
Terry Tang Simulation of mRNA Migration in Subnuclear Environment
Naveen K. Vaidya The Interaction Between Influenza Hemagglutinin (HA) Fusion Peptides and a Lipid Bilayer Membrane
Vanessa Venturi Analytical methods for comparing samples of the T cell receptor repertoire
Xujing Wang The hyperbolic effect of density and strength of inter #61538;-cell coupling in islet bursting
Zhian Wang Fast diffusion prevent blow up in chemotaxis
Ruijun Zhao A New View of CDC's Plan of Elimination of Syphilis