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Mini-symposium Title Organizer/Chair Time
1.Vector-borne diseasesBen Adams (Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, UK)Tuesday,
June 28, 14:30
  1. [14:30-14:55]Mario Recker: Evolutionary determinants of antigenic variation in malaria
  2. [14:55-15:20]Erida Gjini: Optimizing pathogen fitness: the role of the antigenic archive for African Trypanosomes
  3. [15:20-15:45]Daniel Coffield Jr.: A Model for Chagas Disease with Vector Consumption and Transplacental Transmission
  4. [15:45-16:10]Yves Dumont: Chikungunya: an unusual vector-borne disease. Overview and new research trends
  5. [16:10-16:35]Ben Adams: Man bites mosquito: human movement and the urban epidemiology of vector-borne diseases
2.Modelling dengue fever epidemiologyMaíra Aguiar (Centro de Matemática e Aplicações Funamentais (CMAF), Lisbon University, Lisbon, Portugal)Saturday,
July 2, 08:30
Bob Kooi
Nico Stollenwerk
Ezio Venturino
  1. [08:30-09:10]Maira Aguiar: Modelling dengue fever epidemiology: complex dynamics and its implication for data analysis
  2. [09:10-09:30]Eduardo Massad: Why dengue and yellow fever coexist in some areas of the world and not in others?
  3. [09:30-09:50]Helena Sofia Rodrigues: Simulation of a dengue vaccine
  4. [09:50-10:10]Jose Lourenço: Determinants of dengue virus phylodynamics
  5. [10:10-10:30]Nico Stollenwerk: On the origin of the irregularity of DHF epidemics
3.Recent developments in the study of Lotka-Volterra and Kolmogorov systemsStephen Baigent (UCL)Saturday,
July 2, 14:30
  1. [14:30-15:10]Janusz Mierczynski: Permanence for Kolmogorov competitive systems of PDEs
  2. [15:10-15:30]Zhanyuan Hou: Heteroclinic limit cycles in Lotka-Volterra systems
  3. [15:30-15:50]Yasuhiro Takeuchi: Global stability of Lotka-Volterra equations
  4. [15:50-16:10]Joanna Balbus: Average conditions for permanence in N-species nonautonomous competitive systems of PDEs
  5. [16:10-16:30]Stephen Baigent: The curvature of carrying simplices for competitive Lotka-Volterra systems
4.Connecting microscale and macroscale models of cellular migrationRuth Baker (University of Oxford)Tuesday,
June 28, 17:00
Matthew Simpson (Queensland University of Technology)
  1. [17:00-17:25]Ruth Baker: Corrected mean-field models for spatially-dependent advection-diffusion-reaction phenomena
  2. [17:25-17:50]Matthew Simpson: Models of collective cell spreading with variable cell aspect ratio
  3. [17:50-18:15]John Fozard: Discrete and continuum modelling of growth and signalling in biological tissue
  4. [18:15-18:40]Evgeniy Khain: Fronts of cells invading a wound: from discrete stochastic approach to continuum description
  5. [18:40-19:05]Alistair Middleton: From particles to PDEs: continuum approximations to models of cellular migration
5.The emergence of resistance in cancer using mathematical modellingDavid Basanta (Moffitt Cancer Center)Saturday,
July 2, 08:30
  1. [08:30-09:10]Alexander Anderson: Regulating drug resistance: Evolution and the double-bind
  2. [09:10-09:30]Edward Flach: Cancer drug treatment is unnatural selection
  3. [09:30-09:50]Jasmine Foo: Modeling diversity in drug-resistant populations using multitype branching processes
  4. [09:50-10:10]Heiko Enderling: Emergence of radioresistance through selection for cancer stem cells in solid tumors
  5. [10:10-10:30]David Basanta: Tumour heterogeneity and its role in the emergence of resistance
6.Modeling physiological systems: model validation and experimental design issuesJerry Batzel (University of Graz Institute for Mathematics and Scientific Computing)Wednesday,
June 29, 11:00
Mette Olufsen (Department of Mathematics, North Carolina State University)
  1. [11:00-11:20]Jerry Batzel: Methods of Sensitivity Identifiability Analysis in Modeling Human Physiological Systems
  2. [11:20-11:40]Mette Olufsen: Modeling and parameter estimation in cardiovascular dynamics
  3. [11:40-12:00]Mostafa Bachar: Mathematical modeling of glucose insulin system during hemodialysis using different dialysate glucose concentrations
  4. [12:00-12:20]Franz Kappel: Parameter selection in multi-output systems
  5. [12:20-12:40]Johnny Ottesen: Patient specific modeling of the heart as a tool for early diagnoses and treatment planning
  6. [12:40-13:00]Julian King: Physiological modeling of trace gas exhalation kinetics: a non-invasive window to the body
7.Ecology and evolution of infectious diseasesBarbara Boldin (Faculty of Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Technology, University of Primorska)Friday,
July 1, 14:30
Eva Kisdi (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Helsinki)
  1. [14:30-15:00]Akira Sasaki: Resistance threshold in spatially explicit epidemic model: Finite size scaling applied to dynamic percolation in epidemic processes with mixed cultivar planting
  2. [15:00-15:30]Andy White: The evolution of host-parasite range
  3. [15:30-16:00]Samuel Alizon: Within-host parasite cooperation and the evolution of virulence
  4. [16:00-16:30]Eva Kisdi: The curse of the pharaoh hypothesis revisited: Evolutionary coexistence of parasite strains
8.Game theoretical modelling and optimization in evolution and ecology IMark Broom (Centre for Mathematical Science, City University)Tuesday,
June 28, 11:00
Krzysztof Argasinski (Department of Mathematics, University of Sussex)
  1. [11:00-11:25]Magnus Lindh: Evolution of tree architecture
  2. [11:25-11:50]Maciej Jan Ejsmond: More capital or income breeding – optimal strategies for indeterminate growers in the seasonal environment
  3. [11:50-12:15]Frédéric Grognard: Dynamic game for optimal resource allocation of annual plants and grazing consumers
  4. [12:15-13:00]Krzysztof Argasinski: In which currency are paid payoffs in evolutionary games?
9.Game theoretical modelling and optimization in evolution and ecology IIMark Broom (Centre for Mathematical Science, City University)Tuesday,
June 28, 14:30
Krzysztof Argasinski (Department of Mathematics, University of Sussex)
  1. [14:30-14:55]Christoforos Hadjichrysanthou: Evolutionary games on graphs
  2. [14:55-15:20]Irina Kareva: Mixed Strategies, Evolution and the Tragedy of the Commons in Heterogeneous Populations
  3. [15:20-15:45]Chaitanya Gokhale: Multiplayer evolutionary games: from selection to mutation
  4. [15:45-16:10]Vlastimil Krivan: On evolutionary stability in some population games
  5. [16:10-16:35]Mark Broom: Evolution in structured populations: modelling the interactions of individuals and groups
10.Multiscale modeling of biological systems: from physical tools to applications in cancer modeling IArnaud Chauviere (University of New Mexico)Saturday,
July 2, 08:30
Haralampos Hatzikirou (University of New Mexico)
John Lowengrub (University of California - Irvine)
  1. [08:30-09:10]Dirk Drasdo: Multi-scale modeling of cells: concepts and open questions
  2. [09:10-09:30]Vitaly Volpert: Hybrid models of normal and leukemic hematopoiesis
  3. [09:30-09:50]Yangjin Kim: The role of the microenvironment in an early development of breast cancer: a hybrid (multiscale) model
  4. [09:50-10:10]Paul Macklin: An illustration of patient-specific cancer modelling: from microscopic data to macroscopic, quantitative predictions
  5. [10:10-10:30]Luigi Preziosi: Cell Adhesion and Re-organisation in a Multiphase Model Describing Tumour and Tissue Growth
11.Multiscale modeling of biological systems: from physical tools to applications in cancer modeling IIArnaud Chauviere (University of New Mexico)Saturday,
July 2, 11:00
Haralampos Hatzikirou (University of New Mexico)
John Lowengrub (University of California - Irvine)
  1. [11:00-11:30]Cristian Vasile Achim: Phase field Crystal Model for Liquid Crystals
  2. [11:30-12:00]Isabell Graf: Homogenization of a reaction-diffusion system modeling carcino- gens inside a human cell
  3. [12:00-12:30]Simon Praetorius: Applications of phase field and phase field crystal models in biological systems
  4. [12:30-13:00]Arnaud Chauviere: Multiscale modeling of biological systems
12.Plants, growth and transport processes IAndrés Chavarría-Krauser (University of Heidelberg)Tuesday,
June 28, 11:00
Mariya Ptashnyk (RWTH Aachen)
  1. [11:00-11:40]Mariya Ptashnyk: Transport of metal and water in plant roots: Modelling and Analysis
  2. [11:40-12:00]Wilfried Konrad: Dynamics of plant water transport derived from applying an optimisation scheme to Soil-Plant-Atmosphere-Continuum
  3. [12:00-12:20]Anita Roth-Nebelsick: Plant gas exchange: Theoretical considerations on the level of single stomata
  4. [12:20-12:40]Roland Pieruschka: The interaction of leaves with the environment
  5. [12:40-13:00]Konstantinos Zygalakis: A dual porosity model for the uptake of nutrients by root hairs
13.Plants, growth and transport processes IIAndrés Chavarría-Krauser (University of Heidelberg)Tuesday,
June 28, 14:30
Mariya Ptashnyk (RWTH Aachen)
  1. [14:30-15:10]Vitaly Volpert: Nonlinear dynamics of plant growth
  2. [15:10-15:30]Leah Band: Modelling hormone-regulated plant root growth
  3. [15:30-15:50]Rosemary Dyson: The mechanics of plant root growth
  4. [15:50-16:10]Robert Nolet: Existence of solutions for the diffusive VSC model
  5. [16:10-16:30]Andrés Chavarría-Krauser: A model of membrane flow and cytosis regulation in growing pollen tubes
14.Mathematical Modeling of Mosquito-Borne DiseasesNakul Chitnis (Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute)Tuesday,
June 28, 11:00
  1. [11:01-11:24]Alun Lloyd: Modeling Wolbachia-Based Strategies for Controlling Mosquito-Borne Diseases
  2. [11:25-11:48]Carrie Manore: A Model for the Spread of Rift Valley Fever in Livestock with Vertical Transmission
  3. [11:49-12:12]Angelina Mageni Lutambi: Modelling mosquito dispersal in a heterogeneous environment
  4. [12:13-12:36]Susana Barbosa: A genetic model for the spread of insecticide resistance in a heterogeneous environment
  5. [12:37-13:00]Nakul Chitnis: Mathematical Modeling to Support Malaria Control and Elimination
15.Modeling Dynamics of Complex Biological SystemsChing-Shan Chou (Department of Math and MBI, Ohio State University)Tuesday,
June 28, 17:00
Richard Gejji (MBI, Ohio State University)
  1. [17:00-17:40]German Enciso: Protein scaffolds can enhance the bistability of multisite phosphorylation systems
  2. [17:40-18:00]Deena Schmidt: Linking network structure and stochastic dynamics to neural activity patterns involved in sleep-wake regulation
  3. [18:00-18:20]Anna Cai: Critical roles for intracellular binding proteins in creating a robust retinoic acid morphogen gradient
  4. [18:20-18:40]Richard Gejji: Macroscopic model of reversing self-propelled bacteria
  5. [18:40-19:00]Paul Hurtado: In-Host Dynamics of Mycoplasma Infections: Conjunctivitis in Wild Passerine Birds
16.Multiscale modelling of reaction kinetics in biologySimon Cotter (University of Oxford)Tuesday,
June 28, 14:30
  1. [14:30-15:00]Simon Cotter: A constrained multiscale approach to modelling biochemical systems
  2. [15:00-15:30]Per Lotstedt: Stochastic simulation of reaction-diffusion processes in living cells on multiple scales
  3. [15:30-16:00]Konstantinos Zygalakis: Alternative formulations of the Chemical Langevin Equation
17.Modeling viral hepatitis dynamics in-vivo and in-vitro in the era of direct anti-viral agents IHarel Dahari (Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA)Tuesday,
June 28, 17:00
Avidan Neumann (Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel)
  1. [17:00-17:40]Avidan U. Neumann: Deterministic and Stochastic Multi-level Modeling of Hepatitis C Viral Kinetics and Resistance Evolution
  2. [17:40-18:00]Lior Strauss: Distributed Intra-Cellular Model of Hepatitis C Viral Replication and Resistance Evolution
  3. [18:00-18:20]Jeremie Guedj: Determinants of the early hepatitis C viral decline after treatment initiation
  4. [18:20-18:40]Eva Herrmann: PK-PD Models for viral kinetics of combination treatments in viral hepatitis
  5. [18:40-19:00]Robert B. Nachbar: The use of viral dynamics modeling to optimize the design of a Phase Ib trial, facilitate its analysis, and inform the decision making for the development of directly acting HCV compounds
18.Modeling viral hepatitis dynamics in-vivo and in-vitro in the era of direct anti-viral agents IIHarel Dahari (Theoretical Biology and Biophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA)Wednesday,
June 29, 08:30
Avidan Neumann (Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel)
  1. [08:30-09:10]Harel Dahari: Modeling hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA kinetics during treatment: in vitro and in vivo
  2. [09:10-09:30]Jun Nakabayashi: Mathematical models of the intracellular replication and within host evolution of HBV and HCV
  3. [09:30-09:50]Jonathan Forde: Modeling Early Events in Hepatitis Delta Virus Infection
  4. [09:50-10:10]Narendra Dixit: Modelling HCV kinetics in vitro yields estimates of the number of E2-CD81 complexes necessary for viral entry into target cells
  5. [10:10-10:30]Piero Colombatto: Simulating the decline of HCV infected hepatocytes by mathematical modelling allows for individual tailoring of Peg-IFN+RBV therapy and for a better selection of the candidates to the new direct antiviral agents
19.Statistical methods in computational neuroscience IISusanne Ditlevsen (University of Copenhagen, Dept Mathematical Sciences)Wednesday,
June 29, 17:00
  1. [17:00-17:45]Sonja Gruen: Scales of Neuronal Data and the Problem of Interaction
  2. [17:45-18:10]Ryota Kobayashi: Made-to-Order spiking neuron model for a variety of cortical neurons
  3. [18:10-18:35]Martin Paul Nawrot: Exploring the Relation of Interval and Count Variability in Neural Spike Trains
  4. [18:35-19:00]Klaus Holst: A Latent Variable Model for brain serotonin levels as measured by cerebral serotonin transporter and 5-HT2A receptor binding in vivo
20.Multiscale mathematics of liver: bridging molecular systems biology to virtual physiological human scaleDirk Drasdo (INRIA, Paris-Rocquencourt, France)Wednesday,
June 29, 11:00
Stefan Hoehme (IZBI, University of Leipzig, Germany)
  1. [11:00-11:40]Peter Hunter: Modelling infrastructure for the VPH/Physiome project
  2. [11:40-12:05]Hermann-Georg Holzhuetter: Mathematical modeling liver metabolism – do we need a multi-scale approach
  3. [12:05-12:30]Stefan Hoehme: Regeneration after partial hepatectomy: from cell to organ scale
  4. [12:30-12:55]Tim Ricken: A biphasic Finitee-Element-Model for Sinusoidal Liver Perfusion Remodeling
21.Bridging the Divide: Cancer Models in Clinical PracticeMarisa Eisenberg (Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University)Thursday,
June 30, 11:30
Harsh Jain (Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University)
  1. [11:30-12:10]Avner Friedman: Therapeutic approaches to brain cancer
  2. [12:10-12:30]Harald Kempf: Optimised cancer treatment using cell cycle synchronisation with heavy ion irradiation
  3. [12:30-12:50]Marisa Eisenberg: Modeling Remnant Ablation Protocols in Thyroid Cancer
  4. [12:50-13:10]Harsh Jain: The Impact of Androgen Ablation on Mutation Acquisition in Prostate Cancer
  5. [13:10-13:30]Holger Perfahl: Modelling the Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Drugs in Tumours
22.Bridging Time Scales in Biological SciencesKonstantin Fackeldey (Konrad Zuse Institut Berlin, Berlin, Germany)Saturday,
July 2, 14:30
Susanna Röblitz (ZIB, Berlin, Germany)
Marcus Weber (Konrad Zuse Institut Berlin, Berlin, Germany)
  1. [14:30-15:10]Konstantin Fackeldey: Efficient Simulation in Protein Modelling and Non-equilibrium Processes
  2. [15:10-15:35]Volkmar Liebscher: The Quasi-steady state hypothesis for stochastic models of enzyme kinetics
  3. [15:35-16:00]Iris Antes: Hierarchical approaches for the investigation of biomolecular recognition
  4. [16:00-16:25]Susanna Röblitz: Rare events in chemical reaction systems
23.Delay Differential Equations and Applications IUrszula Foryś (University of Warsaw, Faculty of Math. Inf. Mech., Inst. Appl. Math. Mech.)Friday,
July 1, 14:30
Monika Joanna Piotrowska (University of Warsaw, Faculty of Math. Inf. Mech., Inst. Appl. Math. Mech.)
  1. [14:30-15:10]Michael C. Mackey: Using mathematical modeling to tailor the administration of chemotherapy and G-CSF
  2. [15:10-15:30]Alberto d'Onofrio: The interplay between delays and bounded noises in immune reaction to tumors
  3. [15:30-15:50]Yukihiko Nakata: Analysis of a characteristic equation for a Delay Equation from cell population dynamics
  4. [15:50-16:10]Jacek Miekisz: Delayed protein degradation does not cause oscillations
  5. [16:10-16:30]Philipp Getto: A differential equation with state-dependent delay from cell population dynamics
24.Delay Differential Equations and Applications IIUrszula Foryś (University of Warsaw, Faculty of Math. Inf. Mech., Inst. Appl. Math. Mech.)Saturday,
July 2, 08:30
Monika Joanna Piotrowska (University of Warsaw, Faculty of Math. Inf. Mech., Inst. Appl. Math. Mech.)
  1. [08:30-09:10]Hassan Hbid: Delay in Structured Population Models
  2. [09:10-09:30]Samuel Bernard: Distributed delays stabilize negative feedback loops
  3. [09:30-09:50]Marek Bodnar: Delay can stabilise: population and love affairs dynamics
  4. [09:50-10:10]Monika Piotrowska: Gompertz model with time delays
  5. [10:10-10:30]Antoni Leon Dawidowicz: Mathematical model of bioenergetic process in green plants with delayed argument
25.Reports from US - African BioMathematics Initiative: Conservation BiologyHolly Gaff (Old Dominion University)Saturday,
July 2, 14:30
  1. [14:30-14:50]Holly Gaff: Overview: Reports from US - African BioMathematics Initiative: Conservation Biology
  2. [14:50-15:10]Robyn Nadolny: Canine Distemper Virus (CDV): Methods for modeling spillover infections for African Wild Dogs (Lycaon pictus) in a multi-host community
  3. [15:10-15:30]Gina Himes Boor: Using individual-based movement models to investigate mechanism of emergent herding behavior in African buffalo
  4. [15:30-15:50]Ruscena Wiederholt: The effects of disturbance, fire, and elephants on savanna woodlands
  5. [15:50-16:10]Stefano Ermon: A Bio-economic Model For Tropical Forest Harvesting and Habitat Loss
  6. [16:10-16:30]Holly Gaff, Sadie Ryan: Looking to the future: how to progress to success from the US-Africa Biomathematics Initiative
26.Mathematical models of gene regulationTomas Gedeon (Montana State University)Tuesday,
June 28, 11:00
  1. [11:00-11:40]Michael C. Mackey: Molecular distributions in gene regulatory dynamics
  2. [11:40-12:00]Dagmar Iber: From Gene Networks to Tissue Engineering: Computational Models of Pattern Formation
  3. [12:00-12:20]Thomas Höfer: A recruitment-reaction model for chromatin-associated regulatory processes
  4. [12:20-12:40]Tomas Gedeon: Modelling delays induced by transcription and translation
  5. [12:40-13:00]Felix Naef: Calibrating stochastic models of transcriptional bursting in single mammalian cells
27.Heart rate dynamics: models and measures of complexity (part I)Grzegorz Graff (Gdańsk University of Technology)Wednesday,
June 29, 14:30
Beata Graff (Medical University of Gdańsk)
  1. [14:30-15:10]Jose Amigó: An overview of permutation entropy
  2. [15:10-15:30]Agnieszka Kaczkowska: Entropy-based measures of complexity in the assessment of heart rate variability: a theoretical approach
  3. [15:30-15:50]Beata Graff: Entropy-based measures of complexity in the assessment of heart rate variability: a clinical approach
  4. [15:50-16:10]Jan Gierałtowski: Generalized multifractal analysis of heart rate variability recordings with a large number of arrhythmia
  5. [16:10-16:30]Danuta Makowiec: Healthy aging by multifractal analysis of heart interbeat intervals
28.Heart rate dynamics: models and measures of complexity (part II)Grzegorz Graff (Gdańsk University of Technology)Wednesday,
June 29, 17:00
Beata Graff (Medical University of Gdańsk)
  1. [17:00-17:20]Piotr Podziemski: Modeling of the human atrium using Lienard equations
  2. [17:20-17:40]Monika Petelczyc: Correlation in human heart rate variability from a stochastic model
  3. [17:40-18:00]Teodor Buchner: Oscillations and synchronization in human circulatory system
  4. [18:00-18:20]Jaroslaw Piskorski: Structure of heart rate asymmetry
  5. [18:20-18:40]Jerzy Ellert: Heart rate asymmetry and its reflection in HRV complexity measures
  6. [18:40-19:00]Krystyna Ambroch: Time series models for healthy people and patients with LVSD
29.Applications of nonnegative Radon measure spaces with metric structure to population dynamic modelsPiotr Gwiazda (University of Warsaw)Wednesday,
June 29, 17:00
Anna Marciniak-Czochra (University of Heidelberg)
  1. [17:00-17:40]Jose A. Carrillo: On some kinetic models of swarming
  2. [17:40-18:00]Piotr Gwiazda: Mertics on the space of the measures and transport equation
  3. [18:00-18:20]Gael Raoul: Structured population models for evolution
  4. [18:20-18:40]Agnieszka Ulikowska: Two-sex, age-structured population model
  5. [18:40-19:00]Grzegorz Jamróz: Measure-transmission conditions - a powerful tool in modeling bimodal dynamics
30.Modeling and analysis of tumor invasion IHaralampos Hatzikirou (University of New Mexico)Tuesday,
June 28, 11:00
Andreas Deutsch (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)
Arnaud Chauviere (University of New Mexico)
  1. [11:00-11:30]Andreas Deutsch: Analyzing emergent behaviour in cellular automaton models of cancer invasion
  2. [11:30-12:00]Haralampos Hatzikirou: Mechanisms of glioma tumor invasion
  3. [12:00-12:30]Caterina Guiot: Lumped models for tumor progression
  4. [12:30-13:00]Georgios Lolas: The Lymphatic Vascular System in Lymphangiogenesis, Invasion and Metastasis: A Mathematical Approach
31.Modeling and analysis of tumor invasion IIHaralampos Hatzikirou (University of New Mexico)Tuesday,
June 28, 14:30
Andreas Deutsch (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)
Arnaud Chauviere (University of New Mexico)
  1. [14:30-15:00]Sergei Fedotov: Migration-Proliferation Dichotomy in Tumor Cell
  2. [15:00-15:30]Kevin Painter: The impact of a heterogeneous environment on invasive processes
  3. [15:30-16:00]Miguel A. Herrero: On the determination of the optimal radiation dose on a target tissue volume
  4. [16:00-16:30]Chiara Giverso: Modeling the mechanical behavior of cell aggregates and their invasion of mesothelial linings
32.Epidemic models: Networks and stochasticity IThomas House (University of Warwick)Wednesday,
June 29, 14:30
Istvan Kiss (University of Sussex)
  1. [14:30-15:10]Thomas House: Overview of Networks and Stochasticity in Epidemic Models
  2. [15:10-15:30]David Sirl: Household epidemic models with variable infection severity
  3. [15:30-15:50]Kieran Sharkey: Towards understanding the correlations in epidemic dynamics on contact networks via the master equation
  4. [15:50-16:10]Ken Eames: Measuring and modelling changing social contact patterns
  5. [16:10-16:30]Peter Simon: Exact and approximate epidemic models on networks
33.Epidemic models: Networks and stochasticity IIThomas House (University of Warwick)Thursday,
June 30, 11:30
Istvan Kiss (University of Sussex)
  1. [11:30-12:10]Tom Britton: Dynamic networks in dynamic populations
  2. [12:10-12:30]Alan McKane: Stochastic amplification in an epidemic model with seasonal forcing
  3. [12:30-12:50]Michael Taylor: From Markovian to pairwise epidemic models and the performance of moment closure approximations
  4. [12:50-13:10]Adam Kleczkowski: Controlling epidemic spread by responding to risk: Do it well or not at all
  5. [13:10-13:30]Christel Kamp: Following epidemic spread: how epidemics travel and trim their network of infectious contacts
34.From one to many: Cell-based modeling of collective, emergent behaviors in biology -IYi Jiang (Los Alamos National Laboratory)Tuesday,
June 28, 11:00
  1. [11:00-11:25]James Glazier: Multi-scale, Multi-cell Computational Modeling of Choroidal Neovascularization in Age-Related Macular Degeneration
  2. [11:25-11:50]C. Anthony Hunt: Emergent patterns of hepatic zonation of xenobiotic clearance and hepatotoxicity: a plausible role for cell learning
  3. [11:50-12:15]Roeland Merks: Cell-based modeling of plant tissues using VirtualLeaf
  4. [12:15-12:40]Katarzyna A. Rejniak: Contribution of Individual cells to homeostatic balance and imbalance in epithelia
  5. [12:40-13:05]Dirk Drasdo: Possible cell behavior strategies to escape biomechanical constraints in liver regeneration and tumor growth
35.From one to many: Cell-based modeling of collective, emergent behaviors in biology -IIYi Jiang (Los Alamos National Laboratory)Tuesday,
June 28, 14:30
  1. [14:30-14:55]Hans G. Othmer: Multiscale Modeling in Biology -- The Mathematical and Computational Challenges
  2. [14:55-15:20]Heiko Enderling: Emerging tumor morphologies from cancer cell interactions
  3. [15:20-15:45]Holger Perfahl: Multiscale modelling of vascular tumour growth and angiogenesis
  4. [15:45-16:10]Charles Reichhardt: Guided Motion of Individual and Collective Swimmers in Funnel Arrays
  5. [16:10-16:35]Yi Jiang: Bacterial behavioral principles: Learning from Myxobacteria
36.Epidemics of Neglected Tropical DiseasesRoberto Kraenkel (São Paulo State University, Brazil)Wednesday,
June 29, 11:00
  1. [11:00-11:40]Lourdes Esteva: Modelling Chagas' Disease
  2. [11:40-12:10]Claudia Ferreira: Modelling the dynamics of dengue real epidemics
  3. [12:10-12:40]Roberto Kraenkel: A model for malaria with ecological components
37.Models in Spatial EcologyRoberto Kraenkel (São Paulo State University, Brazil)Tuesday,
June 28, 17:00
  1. [17:00-17:40]Roberto Kraenkel: Diffusion in fragmented landscapes: habitat split
  2. [17:40-18:00]Renato Mendes Coutinho: aConnectivity and diffusion for Heliconius species in a seasonally dry fragmented habitat
  3. [18:00-18:20]Franciane Azevedo: The spatial dynamics of the diphenic planthopper
  4. [18:20-18:40]Erin Dauson: Repopulation of Ambystoma tigrinum in the West Texas playas in the period following Antevs’ Altithermal: a mathematical model
38.Cell migration during development: modelling and experimentPaul Kulesa (Stowers Institute for Medical Research)Saturday,
July 2, 08:30
Ruth Baker (University of Oxford)
  1. [08:30-09:10]Paul Kulesa: Experimental analysis of neural crest migration during development
  2. [09:10-09:30]Louise Dyson: Models of neural crest cell migration during development
  3. [09:30-09:50]Matthew Simpson: Modelling cell invasion with proliferation mechanisms motivated by time-lapse data
  4. [09:50-10:10]Michelle Wynn: A computational model of neural crest chain migration provides mechanistic insight into cellular follow-the-leader behavior
  5. [10:10-10:30]Kevin Painter: An integrated experimental/theoretical approach to explore cell migration during embryonic development
39.Biofluids, Solute Transport, and HemodynamicsAnita Layton (Department of Mathematics, Duke University)Wednesday,
June 29, 11:00
S. Randall Thomas (IR4M UMR8081 CNRS Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay, & Institut Gustave-Roussy, Villejuif, France)
  1. [11:00-11:20]Harold Layton: Countercurrent Multiplication in the Kidney: Is it Real?
  2. [11:25-11:45]Roger Evans: A computational model of whole kidney oxygen regulation incorporating arterial to venous oxygen shunting
  3. [11:50-12:10]Anita Layton: Myogenic Response of the Afferent Arteriole
  4. [12:15-12:35]Niels-Henrik Holstein-Rathlou: of nephrons in vascular networks
  5. [12:40-13:00]S. Randall Thomas: Towards integrative multiscale models of whole kidney structure and function
40.Analysis of mathematical models for cancer growth and treatment, Part IUrszula Ledzewicz (Southern Illinois University, USA)Tuesday,
June 28, 11:00
Alberto d'Onofrio (European Institute of Oncology, Italy)
  1. [11:00-11:40]Avner Friedman: The development of fingers in solid tumors
  2. [11:40-12:00]Miguel A. Herrero: Wave propagation and tumour growth
  3. [12:00-12:20]Anna Marciniak-Czochra: Dynamics of pattern formation in the models of early cancerogenesis
  4. [12:20-12:40]Alberto d'Onofrio: The noisy life of tumors
  5. [12:40-13:00]Mary Ann Horn: Using mathematical modeling to understanding the role of diacylglycerol (DAG) as a second messenger
41.Analysis of mathematical models for cancer growth and treatment, Part IIUrszula Ledzewicz (Southern Illinois University, USA)Tuesday,
June 28, 14:30
Alberto d'Onofrio (European Institute of Oncology, Italy)
  1. [14:30-15:10]Vincenzo Capasso: An hybrid analysis of multiscale models for angiogenesis
  2. [15:10-15:30]Alberto Gandolfi: Vascularization and chemotherapy: inferences from a simple model
  3. [15:30-15:50]K. Renee Fister: Optimal control scenarios in cancer treatment strategies
  4. [15:50-16:10]Urszula Ledzewicz: On optimal controls minimizing tumor volume in combinations of anti-angiogenic treatment with radiotherapy
  5. [16:10-16:30]Jan Poleszczuk: Optimal and suboptimal treatment protocols for anti-angiogenic therapy
42.Analysis of mathematical models for cancer growth and treatment, Part IIIUrszula Ledzewicz (Southern Illinois University, USA)Tuesday,
June 28, 17:00
Alberto d'Onofrio (European Institute of Oncology, Italy)
  1. [17:00-17:20]Arnaud Chauviere: The Go-or-Grow hypothesis in glioma growth: mathematical modeling and analysis
  2. [17:20-17:40]Chloe Gerin: When do a low-grade glioma appear ?
  3. [17:40-18:00]Svetlana Bunimovich: Mathematical model of the mechanism of the activation killer cells after the BCG treatment in bladder cancer
  4. [18:00-18:20]Sébastien Benzekry: Optimal schedules for therapies in metastatic cancers
  5. [18:20-18:40]Khalid Kassara: A control approach for ODE cancer models
  6. [18:40-19:00]Urszula Ledzewicz: Discussion on cancer modeling
43.Analysis of mathematical models for cancer growth and treatment, Part IVUrszula Ledzewicz (Southern Illinois University, USA)Wednesday,
June 29, 08:30
Alberto d'Onofrio (European Institute of Oncology, Italy)
  1. [08:30-09:10]Antonio Fasano: Evolution of tumor spheroids: adopting a Bingham scheme for the cell component
  2. [09:10-09:30]Leonid Hanin: The End of Linear-Quadratic Era in Radiation Biology
  3. [09:30-09:50]Miroslaw Lachowicz: Macroscopic limits of a model of alignment
  4. [09:50-10:10]Michal Krzeminski: Markov model of cancer development - survival time prediction
  5. [10:10-10:30]Christian Groh: Mathematical Model of Doxorubicin Transport within Solid Tumours
44.Analysis of mathematical models for cancer growth and treatment, Part VUrszula Ledzewicz (Southern Illinois University, USA)Wednesday,
June 29, 11:00
Alberto d'Onofrio (European Institute of Oncology, Italy)
  1. [11:00-11:40]Jean Clairambault: Numerical optimisation of anticancer therapeutics, especially chronotherapeutics, with toxicity constraints
  2. [11:40-12:00]Heinz Schaettler: Optimal protocols for chemo- and immunotherapy in a mathematical model of tumor-immune interactions
  3. [12:00-12:20]Evans Afenya: Cancer Modeling: Frameworks, Approaches, and Insights
  4. [12:20-12:40]Andrzej Nowakowski: Hamilton-Jacobi analysis for cancer treatment
  5. [12:40-13:00]Akisato Kubo: Existence and asymptotic behaviour of solutions to nonlinear evolution equations arising in mathematical models of tumour growth
45.Turing !! Turing?? on morphogenesis via experimental and theoretical approachesS. Seirin Lee (The University of Tokyo, Japan)Wednesday,
June 29, 17:00
  1. [17:00-17:20]S. Seirin Lee: Gene Expression Time Delays and Turing Pattern Formation
  2. [17:20-17:40]Tetsuya Nakamura: The mechanism to establish robust left-right asymmetry
  3. [17:40-18:00]Denis Headon: Periodic patterning across heterogeneous fields: insights from embryonic feather development
  4. [18:00-18:20]Eamonn Gaffney: Aspects of Turing's Pattern Formation Mechanism On Growing Domains
  5. [18:20-19:00]Shigeru Kondo: How experiment and mathematics can cooperate in the study of Turing patterns of real biological systems?
46.Statistical Analysis of Biological Signals IJacek Leśkow (Nowy Sacz Graduate School of Business - National Louis University)Saturday,
July 2, 08:30
  1. [08:30-09:10]Jaroslaw Harezlak: Modeling mass spectrometry proteomics data using nonparametric regression methods
  2. [09:10-09:30]Christiana Drake: Not Missing at Random and Combined Odds Ratios from Mixture Models
  3. [09:30-09:50]Markus Knappitsch: Dynamic Information and the Meaning of Biological Signs
  4. [09:50-10:10]T. Kozubowski: Skew Laplace Distributions: Theory and Some Applications in Biology
  5. [10:10-10:30]Boguslaw Obara: Analysis and Understanding of Fungal Tip Growth
47.Statistical Analysis of Biological Signals IIJacek Leśkow (Nowy Sacz Graduate School of Business - National Louis University)Saturday,
July 2, 11:00
  1. [11:00-11:40]Aleksander Weron: Identification of fractional subdiffusive dynamics of mRNA molecules
  2. [11:40-12:00]Elżbieta Gajecka-Mirek: AR-Sieve Bootstrap Method and Its Application in Biological Time Series
  3. [12:00-12:20]Jacek Leśkow: Resampling with Applications to Neurophysiological Time Series
  4. [12:20-12:40]Mariola Molenda: Level crossings in biological time series
  5. [12:40-13:00]A. Panorska: The joint distribution of the sum and maximum of exponential random variables with applications to biology
48.Fluid-structure interaction problems in biomechanicsSookkyung Lim (University of Cincinnati, USA)Saturday,
July 2, 08:30
  1. [08:30-09:10]Eunok Jung: A heart model in the whole circulatory system
  2. [09:10-09:30]Christina Hamlet: Excitable tissues in fluids
  3. [09:30-09:50]Karin Leiderman: A Mathematical Model of Thrombus Formation Under Flow
  4. [09:50-10:10]Sarah Olson: Coupling biochemistry, mechanics, and hydrodynamics to model sperm motility
  5. [10:10-10:30]Katarzyna A. Rejniak: Interactions between interstitial fluid and tumor microenvironment in chemotherapy
49.Modeling of immune responses and calcium signaling ITomasz Lipniacki (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, PAS, Warsaw)Tuesday,
June 28, 17:00
Bogdan Kaźmierczak (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, PAS, Warsaw)
Marek Kimmel (Rice University, Dept. of Statistics, Houston, Texas)
  1. [17:00-17:40]Markus Covert: Heterogeneous cellular responses via noisy paracrine signals
  2. [17:40-18:00]Marta Iwanaszko: The dependence of expression of NF-κB – dependent genes: Statistics and evolutionary conservation of control sequences in the promoter and in the 3’ UTR
  3. [18:00-18:30]Pawel Paszek: Oscillations and feedback regulation in the NF-κB signalling
  4. [18:30-19:00]Roberto Bertolusso: IRF3 and NF-kB: transcription factors acting in a coordinated way under double stranded RNA stimulation
50.Modeling of immune responses and calcium signaling IITomasz Lipniacki (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, PAS, Warsaw)Wednesday,
June 29, 14:30
Bogdan Kaźmierczak (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, PAS, Warsaw)
Marek Kimmel (Rice University, Dept. of Statistics, Houston, Texas)
  1. [14:30-15:10]James Faeder: Rule-Based Modeling of Molecular and Cellular Processes
  2. [15:10-15:30]Pawel Kocieniewski: Dimerization Effects in MAPK Cascade
  3. [15:30-15:50]Tomasz Lipniacki: A rule-based model for early events in B cell antigen receptor signaling
  4. [15:50-16:10]Joanna Jaruszewicz: Type of noise defines the most stable attractor in bistable gene expression model
  5. [16:10-16:30]Paweł Żuk: Stochastic switching in a spatially extended, bistable kinase autoactivation model
51.Modeling of immune responses and calcium signaling IIITomasz Lipniacki (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, PAS, Warsaw)Wednesday,
June 29, 17:00
Bogdan Kaźmierczak (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, PAS, Warsaw)
Marek Kimmel (Rice University, Dept. of Statistics, Houston, Texas)
  1. [17:00-17:40]Geneviève Dupont: Modelling the spatio-temporal organisation of intracellular calcium signalling : from mechanism to physiology
  2. [17:40-18:00]Kevin Thurley: Hierachic stochastic modelling of intracellular Ca(2+) signals - a new concept based on emergent behaviour of biomolecules
  3. [18:00-18:20]Je-Chiang Tsai: Traveling Waves in the Buffered FitzHugh-Nagumo Model
  4. [18:20-18:40]Beata Hat: B cell activation triggered by the formation of the small receptor cluster: a computational study
  5. [18:40-19:00]Piotr Szopa: Bifurcation phenomena in spatially extended kinase-receptor interaction model
52.Modeling of immune responses and calcium signaling IVTomasz Lipniacki (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, PAS, Warsaw)Saturday,
July 2, 08:30
Bogdan Kaźmierczak (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, PAS, Warsaw)
Marek Kimmel (Rice University, Dept. of Statistics, Houston, Texas)
  1. [08:30-08:50]Jacek Miekisz: Simple stochastic models of gene regulation
  2. [08:50-09:10]Paulina Szymanska: Modeling of self-regulating gene
  3. [09:10-09:30]Jakub Pekalski: Positive feedback in NF-kappaB signaling
  4. [09:30-09:50]Michał Komorowski: Quantification of noise in signalling systems - importance of controlled signal degradation
  5. [09:50-10:30]Martin Falcke: How does single channel behavior cause cellular Ca2+ spiking?
53.Modeling of immune responses and calcium signaling VTomasz Lipniacki (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, PAS, Warsaw)Saturday,
July 2, 11:00
Bogdan Kaźmierczak (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, PAS, Warsaw)
Marek Kimmel (Rice University, Dept. of Statistics, Houston, Texas)
  1. [11:00-11:30]Ruediger Thul: Calcium alternans in a piecewise linear model of cardiac myocytes
  2. [11:30-11:50]Alexander Skupin: How spatial cell properties shape calcium signals
  3. [11:50-12:10]Michal Dyzma: Three pool model of self sustained calcium oscilations
  4. [12:10-12:40]Zbigniew Peradzyński: On mechanical effects accompanying and influencing the diffusion of calcium
  5. [12:40-13:00]Bogdan Kaźmierczak: Buffered calcium waves with mechano-chemical effects
54.B and T cell immune responsesYoram Louzoun (Bar Ilan University)Wednesday,
June 29, 11:00
  1. [11:00-11:40]Yoram Louzoun: Viruses selectively mutate their CD8+ T cell epitopes – an optimization framework, a novel machine learning methodology and a large scale genetic analysis
  2. [11:40-12:05]Emmanuelle Terry: Modelling CD8 T-Cell Immune Response
  3. [12:05-12:30]Marek Kochanczyk: A spatially extended model of B cell receptor cluster signaling
  4. [12:30-12:55]Andrey Shuvaev: Modeling the T-cells dynamics in lymphopenic conditions
55.Modeling of collective phenomena in biological systemsDanuta Makowiec (Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Gdansk University, Poland)Saturday,
July 2, 08:30
  1. [08:30-09:10]Marcin Zagorski: Emergence of sparsity and motifs in gene regulatory networks
  2. [09:10-09:30]Andreas Deutsch: Analyzing emergent behaviour in interacting cell systems
  3. [09:30-09:50]Pietro Lio: A combined process algebraic and a stochastic approaches to bone remodeling
  4. [09:50-10:10]Danuta Makowiec: Discrete modeling of the sinoatrial node automaticity
  5. [10:10-10:30]Zbigniew Struzik: Measures of heart rate complexity
56.Mathematical Models in Eco-epidemiology IHorst Malchow (University of Osnabrück, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Institute of Environmental Systems Research, Barbarastr. 12, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany)Wednesday,
June 29, 08:30
Sergei V. Petrovskii (Department of Mathematics, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK)
Ezio Venturino (Dipartimento di Matematica "Giuseppe Peano", via Carlo Alberto 10, 10123 Torino, Italy)
  1. [08:30-09:10]Jean-Christophe Poggiale: A spatially extended trophic chain model with recycling : how spatial structure determines the matter cycle?
  2. [09:10-09:30]Malay Banerjee: Deterministic Chaos vs. Stochastic Oscillation in an Eco-epidemic Model
  3. [09:30-09:50]Michael Sieber: Intraguild predation or not? Taking a different perspective on some eco-epidemiological models
  4. [09:50-10:10]Qingguo Zhang: Cellular automata modeling applied in eco-epidemiology - Simulation of the spatial spread of epidemics with individual contact
  5. [10:10-10:30]Ezio Venturino: A two-strain ecoepidemic model
57.Mathematical Models in Eco-epidemiology IIHorst Malchow (University of Osnabrück, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, Institute of Environmental Systems Research, Barbarastr. 12, 49076 Osnabrück, Germany)Wednesday,
June 29, 11:00
Sergei V. Petrovskii (Department of Mathematics, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK)
Ezio Venturino (Dipartimento di Matematica "Giuseppe Peano", via Carlo Alberto 10, 10123 Torino, Italy)
  1. [11:00-11:40]Michel Langlais: Prey abundance, fragmented spatial structures and predator persistence in a predator-prey mathematical model
  2. [11:40-12:00]Narcisa Apreutesei: Travelling wave solutions for integro-differential equations from population dynamics
  3. [12:00-12:20]Jean Baptiste Burie: Homogenization of a model of propagation of a fungal disease in a heterogenous crop field
  4. [12:20-12:40]Horst Malchow: Infection and biocontrol of an invading competitor
  5. [12:40-13:00]Andrew Bate: Complex dynamics in an eco-epidemiological model
58.Information, human behaviour and infection controlPiero Manfredi (Dipartimento di Statistica e Matematica Applicata all'Economia, Università di Pisa, Via Ridolfi 10, Pisa, 56124, Italy)Saturday,
July 2, 08:30
Alberto d'Onofrio (Dept. of Experimental Oncology European Institute of Oncology , Via Ripamonti 435 , 20141 Milano (Italy))
  1. [08:30-09:10]Timothy Reluga: Mathematical Epidemiology and the Economics of Social Planning
  2. [09:10-09:30]Piero Manfredi: The impact of vaccinating behaviour on the natural history of immunization programmes
  3. [09:30-09:50]Sebastian Funk: Modelling the Influence of Human Behaviour on the Spread of Infectious Diseases
  4. [09:50-10:10]Bruno Buonomo: Nonlinear stability of epidemic models including information-related human behaviour
59.Information, human behaviour and diseasePiero Manfredi (Dipartimento di Statistica e Matematica Applicata all'Economia, Università di Pisa, Via Ridolfi 10, Pisa, 56124, Italy)Saturday,
July 2, 11:00
Alberto d'Onofrio (Dept. of Experimental Oncology European Institute of Oncology , Via Ripamonti 435 , 20141 Milano (Italy))
  1. [11:00-11:40]Sara Del Valle: Effects of Behavioral Changes in Smallpox and Influenza Models
  2. [11:40-12:00]Raffaele Vardavas: Modeling Adaptive Behavior in Influenza Vaccination Decisions
  3. [12:00-12:20]Romulus Breban: Health newscasts for increasing influenza vaccination coverage: How much is too much?
  4. [12:20-12:40]Istvan Kiss: Multiple sources and routes of information transmission: implications for epidemic dynamics
  5. [12:40-13:00]Piero Poletti: Risk perception and 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza spread in Italy
60.Stem cells and cancerAnna Marciniak-Czochra (University of Heidelberg)Wednesday,
June 29, 14:30
Heiko Enderling (Tufts University)
  1. [14:30-15:00]Cristian Tomasetti: The role of symmetric and asymmetric division of cancer stem cells in developing drug resistance for various types of tumor growth
  2. [15:05-15:35]Thomas Stiehl: Models of stem cell differentiation in hematopoiesis and leukemia
  3. [15:40-16:10]Hiroshi Haeno: A progenitor cell origin of myeloid malignancies
  4. [16:15-16:45]Charles Morton: Tumor Growth Kinetics Modulated by Generational Lifespan of Non-Stem Cancer Cells
61.Structure and Dynamics of Biochemical Reaction Networks IMaya Mincheva (Northern Illinois University)Tuesday,
June 28, 14:30
Casian Pantea (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  1. [14:30-14:50]David Swigon: Decomposition of chemical reaction networks
  2. [14:55-15:15]Gabor Szederkenyi: Dynamically equivalent reaction networks: a computational point of view
  3. [15:20-15:40]Carsten Conradi: Multistationarity in mass action networks by linear inequality systems
  4. [15:45-16:05]Gheorghe Craciun: Persistence and the Global Attractor Conjecture: The Big Picture
  5. [16:10-16:30]Casian Pantea: Persistence and the Global Attractor Conjecture: Recent Approaches
62.Structure and Dynamics of Biochemical Reaction Networks IIMaya Mincheva (Northern Illinois University)Tuesday,
June 28, 17:00
Casian Pantea (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  1. [17:00-17:20]Santiago Schnell: A model of threshold behavior reveals rescue mechanisms of bystander proteins in conformational diseases
  2. [17:25-17:45]Murad Banaji: Monotone dynamics in chemical reaction networks
  3. [17:50-18:10]Grzegorz A Rempala: Statistical inference for reaction constants in stochastic biochemical networks
  4. [18:15-18:35]Hiroko Kamei: Classification of networks for their synchronous dynamics
  5. [18:40-19:00]Maya Mincheva: Oscillations in Biochemical Reaction Networks
63.Mathematical Modelling of Macromolecules and Molecular AggregatesRubem Mondaini (BIOMAT Consortium/ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/CT-COPPE)Saturday,
July 2, 14:30
  1. [14:30-15:10]Rubem Mondaini: Global Optimization Analysis of Viral Capsids and Amide Planes
  2. [15:10-15:30]Richard Kerner: Discrete groups and internal symmetries of icosahedral capsids
  3. [15:30-15:50]Reidun Twarock: Genome Organisation and Assembly of RNA Viruses: Where Geometry Meets Function
  4. [15:50-16:10]Giuliana Indelicato: The dynamic behaviour of viral capsids under structural transitions important for infection
  5. [16:10-16:30]Thomas Keef: Penrose-like tilings as geometric constraints on the structures of protein assemblies
64.Crowd Dynamics: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation (Part 1)Adrian Muntean (Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS) and Center for Analysis, Scientific computing and Applications (CASA), Department of Mathematics, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands)Wednesday,
June 29, 11:00
  1. [11:00-11:40]Bertrand Maury: Handling of congestion in crowd motion modeling
  2. [11:40-12:00]Andrea Tosin: A multiscale look at crowd dynamics by time-evolving measures
  3. [12:00-12:20]Jan Haskovec: Particle systems and kinetic equations modelling interacting agents in high dimension
  4. [12:20-12:40]Mario Campanella: Calibrating walker models: variations of parameters due to traffic regimes
  5. [12:40-13:00]Joep Evers: Modeling the dynamics of a multi-component crowd via a two-scale approach, working in a setting of measure-theory, mixture-theory and thermodynamics
65.Crowd Dynamics: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation (Part 2)Adrian Muntean (Institute for Complex Molecular Systems (ICMS) and Center for Analysis, Scientific computing and Applications (CASA), Department of Mathematics, TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands)Wednesday,
June 29, 14:30
  1. [14:30-15:10]Andreas Schadschneider: Modeling of pedestrian dynamics -- Cellular automata models
  2. [15:10-15:30]Bertram Düring: Kinetic modelling of opinion leadership
  3. [15:30-15:50]Armin Seyfried: Quantitative description of pedestrian dynamics: Experiments and Modeling
  4. [15:50-16:10]Marek Bodnar: Derivation of macroscopic equations for individual cell-based models
  5. [16:10-16:30]Nikolai Bode: Social networks and models for collective motion
66.Multiscale modelling of biological systems: the Chaste frameworkJames Osborne (The University of Oxford (Computational Biology Group))Tuesday,
June 28, 11:00
  1. [11:00-11:40]James Osborne: A multiscale computational framework for modelling biological systems: Chaste
  2. [11:40-12:00]Alexander Fletcher: Modelling biological systems in Chaste: an overview
  3. [12:00-12:20]Sara-Jane Dunn: Modelling the Effect of the Actin Basket and Basement Membrane in the Deformation of the Colonic Crypt
  4. [12:20-12:40]Ornella Cominetti: Using a cell-vertex model to study the role of differential adhesion in the intestinal crypt
  5. [12:40-13:00]Philip Murray: Using Chaste to simulate a multiscale problem in developmental biology
67.Mathematical modeling of biomechanical regulation in bone tissue (Session I)Peter Pivonka (The University of Western Australia)Wednesday,
June 29, 08:30
Stefan Scheiner
Pascal Buenzli
  1. [08:30-09:10]Christian Hellmich: Bone fibrillogenesis and mineralization: Quantitative analysis and implications for tissue elasticity
  2. [09:10-09:30]Peter Pivonka: A coupled systems biology-micromechanical model for mechanostat-type regulation of bone remodeling
  3. [09:30-09:50]Bert van Rietbergen: A theory for load-adaptive bone remodeling at the cellular level
  4. [09:50-10:10]Peter Cummings: A Computational Model of Bone Resorption Behavior
  5. [10:10-10:30]Adam Moroz: BMU remodelling simulation using reducer order method
68.Mathematical modeling of biomechanical regulation in bone tissue (Session II)Peter Pivonka (The University of Western Australia)Wednesday,
June 29, 11:00
Stefan Scheiner
Pascal Buenzli
  1. [11:00-11:40]Vaclav Klika: Tissue adaptation driven by chemo-mechanical coupling with application to bone
  2. [11:40-12:00]Justin Fernandez: A multiscale bone remodelling framework using the Physiome Project markup languages
  3. [12:00-12:20]Solvey Maldonado: Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Force-induced Bone Adaptation
  4. [12:20-12:40]Yoshitaka Kameo: Mathematical modeling of trabecular bone remodeling induced by osteocytic response to interstitial fluid flow
  5. [12:40-13:00]Hanifeh Khayyeri: Evolutionary simulation of the emergence of the mechano-regulated endochondral healing process
69.Computational toxicology and pharmacology - in silico drug activity and safety assessmentSebastian Polak (Jagiellonian University Medical College Faculty of Pharmacy)Saturday,
July 2, 11:00
Aleksander Mendyk (Dept. of Drug Technology and Biopharmaceutics Faculty of Pharmacy Jagiellonian University Medical College)
  1. [11:00-11:40]Wojciech Krzyzanski: Hematopoietic cell populations as therapeutic targets
  2. [11:40-12:00]Maciej Swat: Systems Biology driven Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
  3. [12:00-12:20]Aleksander Mendyk: Artificial neural networks for carditoxicity prediction of drugs - practical considerations
  4. [12:20-12:40]Sebastian Polak: Systems Biology in drug development - cardiotoxicity prediction
  5. [12:40-13:00]Axel Krinner: Combining two model paradigms: How an agent-based hematopoietic stem cell model couples to an ordinary differential equations model of mature granulopoiesis and chemotherapy
70.SpeciationTadeas Priklopil (University of Helsinki)Wednesday,
June 29, 08:30
  1. [08:30-08:55]Joachim Hermisson: Dobshansky-Muller incompatibilities in parapatry
  2. [08:55-09:20]Géza Meszéna: Darwinian speciation on a regulated landscape
  3. [09:20-09:45]Kristan Schneider: Can dominance prevent the evolution of assortative mating and sympatric speciation?
  4. [09:45-10:10]Stephen Proulx: Evolutionary responses to migration load: A tall fence or a melting pot?
  5. [10:10-10:30]Tadeas Priklopil: Magic traits, mate choice and speciation
71.Mathematical models of evolutionary dynamics of infectious agentsAndrea Pugliese (University of Trento)Tuesday,
June 28, 17:00
Viggo Andreasen (University of Roskilde)
  1. [17:00-17:25]Adam Kucharski: Strain dynamics and influenza drift
  2. [17:25-17:50]Gabriela Gomes: Heterogeneity in antibody range is required for the antigenic drift of influenza A viruses
  3. [17:50-18:15]Yael Artzy-Randrup: Severe First and Mild Later: Temporal Strategies in Pathogen Evolution
  4. [18:15-18:40]Barbara Boldin: Within-host viral evolution in a heterogeneous environment: insights into the HIV co-receptor switch
  5. [18:40-19:05]Viggo Andreasen: The final size of an epidemic with two competing strains
72.Undergraduate Biomathematics Education Beyond BIO 2010 (Part I)Raina Robeva (Sweet Briar College)Wednesday,
June 29, 14:30
Timothy Comar (Benedictine University)
Meghan Burke (Kennesaw State University)
  1. [14:30-14:50]Holly Gaff: Agent-based models of interacting populations
  2. [14:50-15:10]Claudia Neuhauser: Mathematics, Statistics, and Biology: An Integrative Approach
  3. [15:10-15:30]Raina Robeva: Modeling of the Growth Hormone Network
  4. [15:30-15:50]Winfried Just: Discrete vs. indiscrete models of network dynamics
  5. [15:50-16:30]Raina Robeva: Discussion: Types of models of biological networks and their role and place in the undergraduate curriculum
73.Undergraduate Biomathematics Education Beyond BIO 2010 (Part II)Raina Robeva (Sweet Briar College)Saturday,
July 2, 08:30
Timothy Comar (Benedictine University)
Meghan Burke (Kennesaw State University)
  1. [08:30-08:50]Semen Koksal: Establishing an Undergraduate Program and Major in BioMathematics
  2. [08:50-09:10]Paola Vera-Licona: Computational Systems Biology: Discrete Models of Gene Regulatory Networks
  3. [09:10-09:30]Hannah Callender: What My Biology Students Taught Me About Mathematics
  4. [09:30-10:10]Raina Robeva: Discussion: Mathematical biology education materials: types, sources, accessibility, assessment
74.Stochastic models in computational neuroscience ILaura Sacerdote (Dept. Mathematics, University of Torino)Wednesday,
June 29, 14:30
  1. [14:30-15:10]Wulfram Gerstner: Predicting action potentials and membrane potential of neurons
  2. [15:10-15:30]Roberta Sirovich: About a modification of the firing time definition in stochastic leaky integrate--and--fire neuron models
  3. [15:30-15:50]Michele Thieullen: Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes and detailed neuron models
  4. [15:50-16:10]Priscilla Greenwood: Continuity across bifurcations of stochastic Morris Lecar output distributions
  5. [16:10-16:30]Shigeru Shinomoto: A state space method for decoding neuronal spiking signals
75.Noisy CellsAlexander Skupin (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany; Luxembourg Centre for System Biomedicine, Luxembourg)Saturday,
July 2, 14:30
Rudiger Thul (University of Nottingham, UK)
  1. [14:30-15:00]Thomas Höfer: Noisy information processing in the innate immune response
  2. [15:00-15:30]Martin Falcke: Random but reliable: Properties of spike sequences of IP3-induced Ca2+ signaling
  3. [15:30-16:00]Alexander Skupin: Modeling the dynamics of enzyme-pathway coevolution
  4. [16:00-16:20]Tilo Schwalger: How stochastic adaptation currents shape interspike interval statistics of neurons - theory and experiment
76.Recent advances in infectious disease modelling IRobert Smith? (The University of Ottawa)Saturday,
July 2, 11:00
Elissa Schwartz (Washington State University)
Stanca Cuipe (University of Louisiana, Lafayette)
  1. [11:00-11:40]Elissa Schwartz: Immune Dynamics of Equine Infectious Anemia Virus
  2. [11:40-12:00]Bernhard Konrad: Stochastic model-based predictions on post-exposure prophylaxis strategies for prevention of HIV infection
  3. [12:00-12:20]Jonathan Forde: Reducing HIV Reservoirs by Induced Activation of Latently Infected Cells
  4. [12:20-12:40]Kasia Pawelek: Modeling within-host dynamics of influenza virus infection including kinetics of innate and adaptive immune responses
  5. [12:40-13:00]Rachelle Miron: Impulsive differential equations and their application to disease modelling
77.Recent advances in infectious disease modelling IIRobert Smith? (The University of Ottawa)Saturday,
July 2, 14:30
Elissa Schwartz (Washington State University)
Stanca Cuipe (University of Louisiana, Lafayette)
  1. [14:30-15:10]Robert Smith?: The impact of media coverage on the transmission dynamics of human influenza
  2. [15:10-15:30]Axel Bonacic Marinovic: Timeliness of intervention in epidemic outbreaks
  3. [15:30-15:50]Romulus Breban: The nationwide incidence of hepatitis C in Egypt: Toward realistic estimates
  4. [15:50-16:10]Geoffry Mercer: Modelling disease transmission via contaminated water
  5. [16:10-16:30]Stanca M Ciupe: Antibody responses during Hepatitis B viral infection
78.Mechanical Models of Movement and Growth of Cells and Tissues IMagdalena Stolarska (University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, USA)Wednesday,
June 29, 14:30
  1. [14:30-15:10]Hans G. Othmer: From Crawlers to Swimmers- Mathematical and Computational Problems in Cell Motility
  2. [15:10-15:30]Guido Vitale: Cellular Traction as an Optimal Control Problem
  3. [15:30-15:50]Magdalena Stolarska: A mechanical model of cell motility and cell-substrate interaction
  4. [15:50-16:10]Katarzyna Rejniak: Forcing the way to metastasis: mechanical interactions between endothelial and circulating tumor cells
  5. [16:10-16:30]Yangjin Kim: The role of the microenvironment in tumor invasion: a mathematical model
79.Mechanical Models of Movement and Growth of Cells and Tissues IIMagdalena Stolarska (University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, USA)Wednesday,
June 29, 17:00
  1. [17:00-17:40]Wolfgang Alt: Mechanical feedback drives cell polarization, adhesion and migration
  2. [17:40-18:00]Dietmar Ölz: Modelling contractility and antiparallel flows in actomyosin bundles
  3. [18:00-18:20]Marco Scianna: Multiscale model of tumor-derived capillary-like network formation
  4. [18:20-18:40]Paul Macklin: Mechanistic cell-scale modelling of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS): impact of biomechanics in comedonecrosis
  5. [18:40-19:00]Paweł Topa: The particle-based model of foraminiferal morphogenesis
80.Mechanics of the cytoskeleton and cortical actin at the cellular levelWanda Strychalski (University of California, Davis)Saturday,
July 2, 08:30
Guillaume Salbreux (Max Planck Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme)
  1. [08:30-09:10]Guillaume Salbreux: Role of the polar actin cortex in cytokinesis
  2. [09:10-09:30]Andrew Harris: Measuring the mechanical properties of cell monolayers
  3. [09:30-09:50]Jean-François Joanny: Cortical actin and cell instabilities
  4. [09:50-10:10]Sundar Naganathan: Actin binding proteins govern the range of polarizing cortical flows in C. elegans zygotes
  5. [10:10-10:30]Wanda Strychalski: Computational explorations of cellular blebbing
81.Moving Organisms: From Individuals to PopulationsChristina Surulescu (ICAM, WWU Münster)Wednesday,
June 29, 17:00
  1. [17:00-17:40]Christina Surulescu: Cell dispersal: some nonparametric and multiscale aproaches
  2. [17:40-18:00]Franziska Matthaeus: Profits from noise: the example of E. coli motion and chemotaxis
  3. [18:00-18:20]Jan Haskovec: From individual to collective behaviour of coupled velocity jump processes: a locust example
  4. [18:20-18:40]Danielle Hilhorst: A nonlinear parabolic-hyperbolic PDE model for contact inhibition of cell-growth
  5. [18:40-19:00]Jan Kelkel: Integrin mediated Cell Migration: Multiscale Models, Analysis and Numerics
82.Semigroups of Operators in Mathematical Biology IHorst Thieme (School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, 85287-1804)Wednesday,
June 29, 08:30
Adam Bobrowski (Lublin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka 38A, 20-618 Lublin, Poland.)
  1. [08:30-08:55]Dariusz Wrzosek: Do the aggregating cells attain a tight packing state?
  2. [08:55-09:20]Anna Marciniak-Czochra: Structured population models in metric spaces
  3. [09:20-09:45]Piotr Gwiazda: Split-up algorithm in the metric space for the equations of structured population dynamics
  4. [09:45-10:10]Robert Service: Finite populations conditioned on non-extinction
  5. [10:10-10:30]Horst Thieme: Iterative approximation of the spectral radius of a positive operator
83.Semigroups of Operators in Mathematical Biology IIHorst Thieme (School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, 85287-1804)Saturday,
July 2, 11:00
Adam Bobrowski (Lublin University of Technology, Nadbystrzycka 38A, 20-618 Lublin, Poland.)
  1. [11:00-11:25]Jozsef Farkas: Wentzell semigroups in biology
  2. [11:25-11:50]Peter Hinow: Structured and unstructured continuous models for Wolbachia infections
  3. [11:50-12:15]Miroslaw Lachowicz: Some Markov Jump Processes in Mathematical Biology
  4. [12:15-12:40]Radosław Bogucki: Two theorems on singularly perturbed semigroups with applications to some genetic models
  5. [12:40-13:00]Adam Bobrowski: From a PDE model to an ODE model of dynamics of synaptic depression
84.Epidemiology, Eco-Epidemiology and EvolutionEzio Venturino (Univ. Torino)Saturday,
July 2, 11:00
Nico Stollenwerk (CMAF, Univ. Lisbon)
  1. [11:00-11:40]Ezio Venturino: On an age- and stage-dependent epidemic model
  2. [11:40-12:00]Caterina Guiot: Multi-scale modelling of human sleep
  3. [12:00-12:20]Philip Gerrish: Genomic mutation rates that cause extinction: general evolutionary predictions
  4. [12:20-12:40]Jordi Ripoll: An epidemic model on computer networks
  5. [12:40-13:00]Nico Stollenwerk: Chaos and noise in population biology
85.The dynamics of interacting cell systems: from intercellular interaction to tissue-level traits IAnja Voss-Boehme (Center for High Performance Computing (ZIH), Technical University Dresden, Germany)Wednesday,
June 29, 14:30
  1. [14:30-15:10]Jenny Bloomfield: The effect of nonlocal cellular interactions on pattern formation
  2. [15:10-15:30]Pavel Lushnikov: Macroscopic model of self-propelled bacteria swarming with regular reversals
  3. [15:30-15:50]Andras Czirok: Vasculogenesis and collective movement of endothelial cells
  4. [15:50-16:10]Reuben O'Dea: Multiscale analysis of pattern formation and wave propagation in a discrete cell signalling model
  5. [16:10-16:30]Robert Rovetti: Periodicity, spatial correlations, and waves in a probabilistic lattice model of the cardiac cell
86.The dynamics of interacting cell systems: from intercellular interaction to tissue-level traits IIAnja Voss-Boehme (Center for High Performance Computing (ZIH), Technical University Dresden, Germany)Wednesday,
June 29, 17:00
  1. [17:00-17:40]Fernando Peruani: Understanding the spatial organization of bacteria
  2. [17:40-18:00]Anja Voss-Boehme: Interacting cell system models for cell sorting and collective motion
  3. [18:00-18:20]Christophe Deroulers: Two examples of influence of cell-cell interactions on populations: migrating cancer cells and magnetic manipulation for tissue engineering
  4. [18:20-18:40]Thomas Zerjatke: Knowing their neighbours - correlation structures in the development of related stem cells
  5. [18:40-19:00]Jens Malmros: Stochastic modelling of cell migration
87.Multi-scale mathematics of the liver: From intracellular signaling to intercellular interactionAnja Voss-Boehme (Center for High Performance Computing (ZIH), Technical University Dresden, Germany)Wednesday,
June 29, 08:30
Andreas Deutsch
  1. [08:30-09:10]Lars Ole Schwen: Constructive Algorithms for Modeling Realistic Vascular Structures
  2. [09:10-09:35]Dirk Drasdo: Prediction and validation of an order principle to restore tissue architecture in liver regeneration after drug-induced damage: from experiments to modeling and back
  3. [09:35-10:00]Lutz Brusch: Modelling Endocytosis - from the Molecules to the Liver Cell
  4. [10:00-10:25]Walter de Back: From hepatocyte polarization to canalicular network formation: a multiscale approach
88.Fractals and Complexity IPrzemyslaw Waliszewski (Department of Urology, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany)Wednesday,
June 29, 14:30
  1. [14:30-15:10]Bruce West: Origins of Allometric Growth: A Contemporary Perspective
  2. [15:10-15:30]Radu Dobrescu: Using a mix of cellular automata in tumor margin analysis
  3. [15:30-15:50]Konradin Metze: Fractality of chromatin
  4. [15:50-16:10]Herbert Jelinek: Lacunarity analysis and classification of microglia in neuroscience
  5. [16:10-16:30]Przemyslaw Waliszewski: On dynamics of growth of prostate cancer; Towards the objective fractal system of tumor grading
89.Fractals and Complexity IIPrzemyslaw Waliszewski (Department of Urology, Philipps University, Marburg, Germany)Wednesday,
June 29, 17:00
  1. [17:00-17:40]Rasha Abu Eid: Fractal Geometry in the Assessment of Oral Epithelial Dysplasia Grading System
  2. [17:40-18:00]Helmut Ahammer: Fractal Dimension of Anal Intraepithelial Neoplasia (AIN)
  3. [18:00-18:20]Nebojsa Milosevic: Mathematical model of box-counting analysis in the human dentate nucleus during development
  4. [18:20-18:40]Wlodzimierz Klonowski: Applying Fractal Dimension in Analysis of Biosignals and of Medical Images
  5. [18:40-19:00]Edward Oczeretko: Fractal analysis in irregular regions of interest
90.Mathematical modelling of physiological processes in patients on dialysisJacek Waniewski (Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering PAS)Saturday,
July 2, 11:00
  1. [11:00-11:40]Daniel Schneditz: Physiology-based approach to modeling of dialysis
  2. [11:40-12:00]Joanna Stachowska-Piętka: Mathematical modeling of peritoneal dialysis
  3. [12:00-12:20]Roman Cherniha: New exact solutions of mathematical models describing peritoneal transport
  4. [12:20-12:40]Magda Galach: Modeling of glucose-insulin system in patients on dialysis
  5. [12:40-13:00]Malgorzata Debowska: Compartmental modeling and adequacy of dialysis
91.Modelling biofilms: from gene regulation to large-scale structure and functionJohn Ward (University of Loughborough)Wednesday,
June 29, 17:00
Fordyce Davidson (University of Dundee)
  1. [17:00-17:40]Fordyce Davidson: Cell differentiation in bacterial biofilms
  2. [17:40-18:00]Christina Kuttler: Modelling approaches for Quorum sensing in Pseudomonas putida and its observation in a biofilm compartment
  3. [18:00-18:20]Judith Perez-Velazquez: Early stages of biofilm formation of Pseudomona syringae on leaves surfaces
  4. [18:20-18:40]Niels Chr Overgaard: A new necessary condition for coexistence of species in equilibrium states of the Wanner-Gujer-Kissel biofilm model
  5. [18:40-19:00]Hermann Eberl: A numerical method for a doubly degenrate diffusion-reaction model describing biofilm processes
92.Mathematical modeling and simulations of angiogenesis IXiaoming Zheng (Central Michigan University, USA)Wednesday,
June 29, 08:30
Trachette Jackson (University of Michigan, USA)
Roeland Merks (Netherlands Institute for Sytems Biology (NISB) Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  1. [08:30-09:10]Rafał Wcisło: Complex Cellular Automata based on particle dynamics as a framework for modeling solid tumor growth and angiogenesis
  2. [09:10-09:30]Amina Qutub: Characterizing Endothelial Cell Behavior and Adaptation During Brain Capillary Regeneration by Rule Oriented Modeling
  3. [09:30-09:50]Heiko Rieger: Blood vessel network remodeling during tumor growth
  4. [09:50-10:10]Florian Milde: Image Driven Computational Models of Cell Migration
  5. [10:10-10:30]Susan Massey: Parameter sensitivity investigation of a mathematical model of glioma angiogenesis via Latin hypercube sampling
93.Mathematical modeling and simulations of angiogenesis IIXiaoming Zheng (Central Michigan University, USA)Wednesday,
June 29, 11:00
Trachette Jackson (University of Michigan, USA)
Roeland Merks (Netherlands Institute for Sytems Biology (NISB) Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
  1. [11:00-11:30]Roeland Merks: Cell-based modeling of angiogenic blood vessel sprouting: cell-ECM interaction and tip-cell selection
  2. [11:30-12:00]Tomas Alarcón: A flow-coupled phase-field model of tumour-induced angiogenesis
  3. [12:00-12:30]Richard Schugart: Using mathematical modeling to assess the efficacy of oxygen for problem wounds: Use of hyperbaric or topical oxygen therapies
  4. [12:30-13:00]Florence Hubert: A model for anti-angiogenic therapy
94.Systems Biology of DevelopmentWalter de Back Saturday,
July 2, 14:30
Lutz Brusch (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Andreas Deutsch
  1. [14:30-14:55]Johannes Jaeger: Reverse-Engineering the Evolutionary and Developmental Dynamics of the Gap Gene Network
  2. [14:55-15:20]Margriet Palm: Cell elongation and cell adhesion suffice for vascular network formation
  3. [15:20-15:45]Julio Belmonte: Multi-cell, Multi-scale Models of Vertebrate Somitogenesis
  4. [15:45-16:10]Alvaro Köhn-Luque: Paracrine vs Autocrine Regulation of Early Vascular Patterning
  5. [16:10-16:30]Osvaldo Chara: The role of Wnt3 in early Hydra head regeneration