This volume tackles a variety of biological and medical questions using mathematical models to understand complex system dynamics. Working in collaborative teams of six, each with a senior research mentor, researchers developed new mathematical models to address questions in a range of application areas. Topics include retinal degeneration, biopolymer dynamics, the topological structure of DNA, ensemble analysis, multidrug-resistant organisms, tumor growth modeling, and geospatial modeling of malaria. The work is the result of newly formed collaborative groups begun during the Collaborative Workshop for Women in Mathematical Biology hosted by the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics at UCLA in June 2019. Previous workshops in this series have occurred at IMA, NIMBioS, and MBI.
1. Collaborative Workshop for Women in Mathematical Biology (R. Segal,
B. Shtylla, S. Sindi).- 2. Connecting Actin Polymer Dynamics Across Multiple
Scales (C. Copos, B. Bannish, K. Gasior, R.L. Pinals, M.W. Rostami, A.T.
Dawes).- 3. Modeling RNA:DNA Hybrids with Formal Grammars (N. Jonoska, N.
Obatake, S. Poznanovic, C. Price, M. Riehl, M. Vazquez).- 4. Secondary
Structure Ensemble Analysis via Community Detection (H. Du, M.M. Ferrari, C.
Heitsch, F. Hurley, C.V. Mennicke, B.D. Sullivan, and B. Xu.)- 5. How Do
Interventions Impact Malaria Dynamics Between Neighboring Countries? A Case
Study with Botswana and Zimbabwe (F. Agusto, A. Goldberg, O. Ortega, Joan
Ponce+ , Sofya Zaytseva, S. Sindi, Sally Blower).-
6. Investigating the
Impact of Combination Phage and Antibiotic Therapy (S. Banuelos, H. Gulbudak,
M.A. Horn, Q. Huang, A. Nandi, H Ryu, R. Segal).-
7. Mathematical Modeling of
Retinal Degeneration (E. Camacho, A. Dobreva, K. Larripa, A. Radulescu, D.
Schmidt,I. Trejo).- 8. A Framework for Performing Data-Driven Modeling of
Tumor Growth with Radiotherapy Treatment (H. Cho, A.L. Lewis, K.M. Storey, R.
Jennings, B. Shtylla, A.M. Reynolds, H.M. Byrne).
Rebecca Segal is Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. She holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from the North Carolina State University.
Blerta Shtylla is Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics at Pomona College. She holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Utah. Suzanne Sindi is Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics at University of California, Merced. She holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park.
