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Society for Mathematical Biology Conference
July 30 - August 2, 2008
Centre for Mathematical Medicine, Fields Institute
Toronto, Canada

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Organizing Committee: S.Sivaloganathan-Chair(Waterloo), M.Kohandel (Waterloo), I.Pressman(Carleton), F.Skinner(Toronto Western Research Inst.), H. Zhu(York)

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Simulating invasion: Macroscopic and microscopic approaches
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Matthew J Simpson
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Victoria, Australia
Coauthors: Kerry A Landman, k.landman@ms.unimelb.edu.au Barry D Hughes, b.hughes@ms.unimelb.edu.au

Cell invasion is fundamental to many biological processes ranging from developmental morphogenesis to disease progression. Experimental data describing invasion is typically collected across a range of scales encompassing population-level and individual-level data. Interpretive and predictive tools capable of replicating and connecting these kinds of data are needed. Continuum population-level and agent-based individual-level methods are two modelling approaches that can replicate and connect multiscale experimental data. We are using agent-based and continuum modelling approaches in parallel to identify and explore various similarities and inconsistencies that arise when considering the same problem using different modelling scales.

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Date received: May 10, 2008


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