ECMTB 2011

Multiscale modeling of biological systems: from physical tools to applications in cancer modeling I (Arnaud Chauviere,Haralampos Hatzikirou,John Lowengrub)

Dirk Drasdo: Multi-scale modeling of cells: concepts and open questions
Vitaly Volpert: Hybrid models of normal and leukemic hematopoiesis
Yangjin Kim: The role of the microenvironment in an early development of breast cancer: a hybrid (multiscale) model
Paul Macklin: An illustration of patient-specific cancer modelling: from microscopic data to macroscopic, quantitative predictions
Luigi Preziosi: Cell Adhesion and Re-organisation in a Multiphase Model Describing Tumour and Tissue Growth

AM5Undergraduate Biomat[#73]

Undergraduate Biomathematics Education Beyond BIO 2010 (Part II) (Raina Robeva,Timothy Comar,Meghan Burke)

Semen Koksal: Establishing an Undergraduate Program and Major in BioMathematics
Paola Vera-Licona: Computational Systems Biology: Discrete Models of Gene Regulatory Networks
Hannah Callender: What My Biology Students Taught Me About Mathematics
Raina Robeva: Discussion: Mathematical biology education materials: types, sources, accessibility, assessment

AM6Fluid-structure inte[#48]

Fluid-structure interaction problems in biomechanics (Sookkyung Lim)

Eunok Jung: A heart model in the whole circulatory system
Christina Hamlet: Excitable tissues in fluids
Karin Leiderman: A Mathematical Model of Thrombus Formation Under Flow
Sarah Olson: Coupling biochemistry, mechanics, and hydrodynamics to model sperm motility
Katarzyna A. Rejniak: Interactions between interstitial fluid and tumor microenvironment in chemotherapy

AM7The emergence of res[#5]

The emergence of resistance in cancer using mathematical modelling (David Basanta)

Alexander Anderson: Regulating drug resistance: Evolution and the double-bind
Edward Flach: Cancer drug treatment is unnatural selection
Jasmine Foo: Modeling diversity in drug-resistant populations using multitype branching processes
Heiko Enderling: Emergence of radioresistance through selection for cancer stem cells in solid tumors
David Basanta: Tumour heterogeneity and its role in the emergence of resistance

AM8Modelling dengue fev[#2]

Modelling dengue fever epidemiology (Maíra Aguiar,Bob Kooi,Nico Stollenwerk,Ezio Venturino)

Maira Aguiar: Modelling dengue fever epidemiology: complex dynamics and its implication for data analysis
Eduardo Massad: Why dengue and yellow fever coexist in some areas of the world and not in others?
Helena Sofia Rodrigues: Simulation of a dengue vaccine
Jose Lourenço: Determinants of dengue virus phylodynamics
Nico Stollenwerk: On the origin of the irregularity of DHF epidemics

AM9Modeling of collecti[#55]

Modeling of collective phenomena in biological systems (Danuta Makowiec)

Marcin Zagorski: Emergence of sparsity and motifs in gene regulatory networks
Andreas Deutsch: Analyzing emergent behaviour in interacting cell systems
Pietro Lio: A combined process algebraic and a stochastic approaches to bone remodeling
Danuta Makowiec: Discrete modeling of the sinoatrial node automaticity
Zbigniew Struzik: Measures of heart rate complexity

CP1Statistical Analysis[#46]

Statistical Analysis of Biological Signals I (Jacek Leśkow)

Jaroslaw Harezlak: Modeling mass spectrometry proteomics data using nonparametric regression methods
Christiana Drake: Not Missing at Random and Combined Odds Ratios from Mixture Models
Markus Knappitsch: Dynamic Information and the Meaning of Biological Signs
T. Kozubowski: Skew Laplace Distributions: Theory and Some Applications in Biology
Boguslaw Obara: Analysis and Understanding of Fungal Tip Growth

CP3Delay Differential E[#23]

Delay Differential Equations and Applications II (Urszula Foryś,Monika Joanna Piotrowska)

Hassan Hbid: Delay in Structured Population Models
Samuel Bernard: Distributed delays stabilize negative feedback loops
Marek Bodnar: Delay can stabilise: population and love affairs dynamics
Monika Piotrowska: Gompertz model with time delays
Antoni Leon Dawidowicz: Mathematical model of bioenergetic process in green plants with delayed argument

CP4Cell migration durin[#38]

Cell migration during development: modelling and experiment (Paul Kulesa,Ruth Baker)

Paul Kulesa: Experimental analysis of neural crest migration during development
Louise Dyson: Models of neural crest cell migration during development
Matthew Simpson: Modelling cell invasion with proliferation mechanisms motivated by time-lapse data
Michelle Wynn: A computational model of neural crest chain migration provides mechanistic insight into cellular follow-the-leader behavior
Kevin Painter: An integrated experimental/theoretical approach to explore cell migration during embryonic development

SP1Modeling of immune r[#52]

Modeling of immune responses and calcium signaling IV (Tomasz Lipniacki,Bogdan Kaźmierczak,Marek Kimmel)

Jacek Miekisz: Simple stochastic models of gene regulation
Paulina Szymanska: Modeling of self-regulating gene
Jakub Pekalski: Positive feedback in NF-kappaB signaling
Michał Komorowski: Quantification of noise in signalling systems - importance of controlled signal degradation
Martin Falcke: How does single channel behavior cause cellular Ca2+ spiking?

Saturday,
July 2, 11:00

AM1Developmental Biolog

Developmental Biology (Tilmann Glimm)

Yoshihiro Morishita: Coding design of positional information for robust morphogenesis
Jörn Starruß: Collective migration in myxobacteria driven by adventurous motility and elongated cell shape
Joanna Szymanowska-Pułka: Analysis of the Lateral Root Morphology with the Use of the Fast Fourier Transform
Sofia Tapani: Mathematical modelling of pronuclei migration in the mammalian egg
Lisa Willis: Biosilica nanoscale pattern formation in diatoms

AM2Population Dynamics

Population Dynamics (Christina Cobbold)

Max Souza: Multiscaling Modelling in Evolutionary Dynamics
Atiyo Ghosh: Quantifying Stochastic Introgression Processes with Hazard Rates
Ryan Chisholm: A theoretical model linking interspecific variation in density dependence to species abundances
Wes Maciejewski: Resistance Distance and Relatedness on an Evolutionary Graph
Jonathan Rault: Equilibria and stability results for some zooplankton size-structured models

AM5Cell and Tissue Biop

Cell and Tissue Biophysics (Keng-Hwee Chiam)

AM6Regulatory Networks

Regulatory Networks (Daniele Muraro)

Simon van Mourik: Quantitative modeling of gene expression in Arabidopsis flowers
Elpida Tzafestas: Modeling hormonally dependent genetic networks
Marcin Zagórski: Model gene regulatory networks under mutation-selection balance
Ben Fitzpatrick: Modeling and Estimation of Gene Regulatory Networks and Environmental Stress Response
Anna Ochab-Marcinek: How stochasticity in gene expression differentiates phenotypes without changing genotypes

AM7Cellular Systems Bio

Cellular Systems Biology (John Tyson)

Attila Csikasz-Nagy: Cell signaling network unit dynamics
Mehrdad Jafari-Mamaghani: Employing Statistics in Systems Microscopy
J Krishnan: Modelling and elucidating design principles underlying attractive and repulsive gradient sensing
Ilya Potapov: Dynamics of synthetic genetic repressilators with phase-repulsive coupling
Jaroslaw Śmieja: Coupled sensitivity and frequency analysis of signalling pathways

AM3Information, human b[#59]

Information, human behaviour and disease (Piero Manfredi,Alberto d'Onofrio)

Sara Del Valle: Effects of Behavioral Changes in Smallpox and Influenza Models
Raffaele Vardavas: Modeling Adaptive Behavior in Influenza Vaccination Decisions
Romulus Breban: Health newscasts for increasing influenza vaccination coverage: How much is too much?
Istvan Kiss: Multiple sources and routes of information transmission: implications for epidemic dynamics
Piero Poletti: Risk perception and 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza spread in Italy

AM4Multiscale modeling [#11]

Multiscale modeling of biological systems: from physical tools to applications in cancer modeling II (Arnaud Chauviere,Haralampos Hatzikirou,John Lowengrub)

Cristian Vasile Achim: Phase field Crystal Model for Liquid Crystals
Isabell Graf: Homogenization of a reaction-diffusion system modeling carcino- gens inside a human cell
Simon Praetorius: Applications of phase field and phase field crystal models in biological systems
Arnaud Chauviere: Multiscale modeling of biological systems

AM8Epidemiology, Eco-Ep[#84]

Epidemiology, Eco-Epidemiology and Evolution (Ezio Venturino,Nico Stollenwerk)

Ezio Venturino: On an age- and stage-dependent epidemic model
Caterina Guiot: Multi-scale modelling of human sleep
Philip Gerrish: Genomic mutation rates that cause extinction: general evolutionary predictions
Jordi Ripoll: An epidemic model on computer networks
Nico Stollenwerk: Chaos and noise in population biology

AM9Semigroups of Operat[#83]

Semigroups of Operators in Mathematical Biology II (Horst Thieme,Adam Bobrowski)

Jozsef Farkas: Wentzell semigroups in biology
Peter Hinow: Structured and unstructured continuous models for Wolbachia infections
Miroslaw Lachowicz: Some Markov Jump Processes in Mathematical Biology
Radosław Bogucki: Two theorems on singularly perturbed semigroups with applications to some genetic models
Adam Bobrowski: From a PDE model to an ODE model of dynamics of synaptic depression

CP1Statistical Analysis[#47]

Statistical Analysis of Biological Signals II (Jacek Leśkow)

Aleksander Weron: Identification of fractional subdiffusive dynamics of mRNA molecules
Elżbieta Gajecka-Mirek: AR-Sieve Bootstrap Method and Its Application in Biological Time Series
Jacek Leśkow: Resampling with Applications to Neurophysiological Time Series
Mariola Molenda: Level crossings in biological time series
A. Panorska: The joint distribution of the sum and maximum of exponential random variables with applications to biology

CP2Mathematical modelli[#90]

Mathematical modelling of physiological processes in patients on dialysis (Jacek Waniewski)

Daniel Schneditz: Physiology-based approach to modeling of dialysis
Joanna Stachowska-Piętka: Mathematical modeling of peritoneal dialysis
Roman Cherniha: New exact solutions of mathematical models describing peritoneal transport
Magda Galach: Modeling of glucose-insulin system in patients on dialysis
Malgorzata Debowska: Compartmental modeling and adequacy of dialysis

CP3Recent advances in i[#76]

Recent advances in infectious disease modelling I (Robert Smith?,Elissa Schwartz,Stanca Cuipe)

Elissa Schwartz: Immune Dynamics of Equine Infectious Anemia Virus
Bernhard Konrad: Stochastic model-based predictions on post-exposure prophylaxis strategies for prevention of HIV infection
Jonathan Forde: Reducing HIV Reservoirs by Induced Activation of Latently Infected Cells
Kasia Pawelek: Modeling within-host dynamics of influenza virus infection including kinetics of innate and adaptive immune responses
Rachelle Miron: Impulsive differential equations and their application to disease modelling

CP4Computational toxico[#69]

Computational toxicology and pharmacology - in silico drug activity and safety assessment (Sebastian Polak,Aleksander Mendyk)

Wojciech Krzyzanski: Hematopoietic cell populations as therapeutic targets
Maciej Swat: Systems Biology driven Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics
Aleksander Mendyk: Artificial neural networks for carditoxicity prediction of drugs - practical considerations
Sebastian Polak: Systems Biology in drug development - cardiotoxicity prediction
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

SP1Modeling of immune r[#53]

Modeling of immune responses and calcium signaling V (Tomasz Lipniacki,Bogdan Kaźmierczak,Marek Kimmel)

Ruediger Thul: Calcium alternans in a piecewise linear model of cardiac myocytes
Alexander Skupin: How spatial cell properties shape calcium signals
Michal Dyzma: Three pool model of self sustained calcium oscilations
Zbigniew Peradzyński: On mechanical effects accompanying and influencing the diffusion of calcium
Bogdan Kaźmierczak: Buffered calcium waves with mechano-chemical effects

Saturday,
July 2, 14:30

AM2Population Dynamics

Population Dynamics (Dorothy Wallace)

Isaias Chairez-Hernandez: Grasshopper population interpolation with Generalized linear models
Joanna Jaroszewska: Chaotic properties of some partial differential equation with a random delay describing cellular replication
Adriana Bernal Escobar: Spatial explicit dispersal modeling for the conservation of jaguars in Colombia
Yo-Hey Otake: Convergence properties of the law of reproduction by the first principle derivation in population dynamics

AM5Cancer

Cancer (Vitaly Volpert)

Gülnihal Meral: Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulations for the Influence of Heat Shock Proteins on Tumour Invasion
Maciej Mrugala: Predicting pseudoprogression in glioblastoma patients: A mathematical and clinical perspective
Arne Traulsen: Dynamics of blood diseases and the hierarchy of hematopoiesis
Jill Gallaher: Phenotypic inheritance transforms heterogeneity in tumor growth
Philip Gerlee: The impact of phenotypic switching on glioma growth

AM1Systems Biology of D[#94]

Systems Biology of Development (Walter de Back,Lutz Brusch,Andreas Deutsch)

Johannes Jaeger: Reverse-Engineering the Evolutionary and Developmental Dynamics of the Gap Gene Network
Margriet Palm: Cell elongation and cell adhesion suffice for vascular network formation
Julio Belmonte: Multi-cell, Multi-scale Models of Vertebrate Somitogenesis
Alvaro Köhn-Luque: Paracrine vs Autocrine Regulation of Early Vascular Patterning
Osvaldo Chara: The role of Wnt3 in early Hydra head regeneration

AM3Noisy Cells[#75]

Noisy Cells (Alexander Skupin,Rudiger Thul)

Thomas Höfer: Noisy information processing in the innate immune response
Martin Falcke: Random but reliable: Properties of spike sequences of IP3-induced Ca2+ signaling
Alexander Skupin: Modeling the dynamics of enzyme-pathway coevolution
Tilo Schwalger: How stochastic adaptation currents shape interspike interval statistics of neurons - theory and experiment

AM4Reports from US - Af[#25]

Reports from US - African BioMathematics Initiative: Conservation Biology (Holly Gaff)

Holly Gaff: Overview: Reports from US - African BioMathematics Initiative: Conservation Biology
Robyn Nadolny: Canine Distemper Virus (CDV): Methods for modeling spillover infections for African Wild Dogs (Lycaon pictus) in a multi-host community
Gina Himes Boor: Using individual-based movement models to investigate mechanism of emergent herding behavior in African buffalo
Ruscena Wiederholt: The effects of disturbance, fire, and elephants on savanna woodlands
Stefano Ermon: A Bio-economic Model For Tropical Forest Harvesting and Habitat Loss
Holly Gaff, Sadie Ryan: Looking to the future: how to progress to success from the US-Africa Biomathematics Initiative

AM6Mathematical Modelli[#63]

Mathematical Modelling of Macromolecules and Molecular Aggregates (Rubem Mondaini)

Rubem Mondaini: Global Optimization Analysis of Viral Capsids and Amide Planes
Richard Kerner: Discrete groups and internal symmetries of icosahedral capsids
Reidun Twarock: Genome Organisation and Assembly of RNA Viruses: Where Geometry Meets Function
Giuliana Indelicato: The dynamic behaviour of viral capsids under structural transitions important for infection
Thomas Keef: Penrose-like tilings as geometric constraints on the structures of protein assemblies

AM7Recent developments [#3]

Recent developments in the study of Lotka-Volterra and Kolmogorov systems (Stephen Baigent)

Janusz Mierczynski: Permanence for Kolmogorov competitive systems of PDEs
Zhanyuan Hou: Heteroclinic limit cycles in Lotka-Volterra systems
Yasuhiro Takeuchi: Global stability of Lotka-Volterra equations
Joanna Balbus: Average conditions for permanence in N-species nonautonomous competitive systems of PDEs
Stephen Baigent: The curvature of carrying simplices for competitive Lotka-Volterra systems

AM8Bridging Time Scales[#22]

Bridging Time Scales in Biological Sciences (Konstantin Fackeldey,Susanna Röblitz,Marcus Weber)

Konstantin Fackeldey: Efficient Simulation in Protein Modelling and Non-equilibrium Processes
Volkmar Liebscher: The Quasi-steady state hypothesis for stochastic models of enzyme kinetics
Iris Antes: Hierarchical approaches for the investigation of biomolecular recognition
Susanna Röblitz: Rare events in chemical reaction systems

AM9Recent advances in i[#77]

Recent advances in infectious disease modelling II (Robert Smith?,Elissa Schwartz,Stanca Cuipe)

Robert Smith?: The impact of media coverage on the transmission dynamics of human influenza
Axel Bonacic Marinovic: Timeliness of intervention in epidemic outbreaks
Romulus Breban: The nationwide incidence of hepatitis C in Egypt: Toward realistic estimates
Geoffry Mercer: Modelling disease transmission via contaminated water
Stanca M Ciupe: Antibody responses during Hepatitis B viral infection