#MathOnco Issue 121: Lotka-Volterra models, allee effects, cancer cachexia, cell plasticity, visualizing evolutionary games.
This week in
Math Oncology
July 2, 2020 ~ Issue 121
From the editor
Dear Readers,
This week's edition includes articles on Lotka-Volterra models, allee effects, cancer cachexia, cell plasticity, and one of my own - a package on visualizing evolutionary games!
Be sure not to miss the exciting Virtual Talks, including one TODAY hosted by Moffitt, and several today hosted by SIAM.
Enjoy,
-Jeffrey West
#MathOnco Publications
A Tale of Two Equations Ludi Vitae or Motus Vita?
Authors: Chuang Liu
Polygenic adaptation: a unifying framework to understand positive selection
Authors: Neda Barghi, Joachim Hermisson, Christian Schlötterer
Highly parallel lab evolution reveals that epistasis can curb the evolution of antibiotic resistance
Authors: Marta Lukačišinová, Booshini Fernando, Tobias Bollenbach
Delineating the evolutionary dynamics of cancer from theory to reality
Authors: Ivana Bozic, Catherine J. Wu
Looking backward in time to define the chronology of metastasis
Authors: Zheng Hu, Christina Curtis
Multiple Attractors and Long Transients in Spatially Structured Populations with an Allee Effect
Authors: Irina Vortkamp, Sebastian J. Schreiber, Alan Hastings, Frank M. Hilker
Tumor Growth Models
Authors: João P. Belfo, João M. Lemos
Mathematical Model of Muscle Wasting in Cancer Cachexia
Authors: Suzan Farhang-Sardroodi, Kathleen P. Wilkie
#MathOnco Preprints
IsoMaTrix: a framework to visualize the isoclines of matrix games and quantify uncertainty in structured populations
Authors: Jeffrey West, Alexander Anderson
Evolutionary Based Adaptive Dosing Algorithms: Beware the Cost of Cumulative Risk
Authors: Hitesh Mistry
Modelling CAR T-cell Therapy with Patient Preconditioning
Authors: Katherine Lacy, OwensIvana Bozic
Cell plasticity in cancer cell populations
Authors: Shensi Shen, Jean Clairambault
Virtual Seminars
1. Moffitt's Integrated Mathematical Oncology Dept. Series
Mathematical Oncology
Next talk: James DeGregori (University of Colorado)
"In the light of Evolution: Why do we get more cancers in old age?"
Today, July 2, 2020 at noon EST
2. 2020 SIAM Conference on the Life Sciences:
Today, July 2, 2020 at noon to 9:00pm EST
3. Virtual Seminar Series on Modeling Biocomplexity:
Cancer Invasion and Progression Series
Next talk: Natalia Komarova (University of California Irvine)
"Mathematical modeling of cancer evolution"
July 8, 2020 at 5:00pm CEST
4. Mathematical and Computational Biology Seminar Series:
Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, General Mathematics
Next talk: Natalia Komarova (University of California Irvine)
"Mathematics of Evolution: mutations, selection, and random environments"
July 13, 2020 at 11:00am CEST
#MathOnco - Book of the month
The Cheating Cell
Athena Aktipis: "When we think of the forces driving cancer, we don’t necessarily think of evolution. But evolution and cancer are closely linked, for the historical processes that created life also created cancer. The Cheating Cell delves into this extraordinary relationship, and shows that by understanding cancer’s evolutionary origins, researchers can come up with more effective, revolutionary treatments."
Jobs
NEW: Postdoc Position - TKI treatments in lung cancer (David Basanta)
Research Associate, Postdoc, and Research Faculty positions – Mathematical Oncology (Russ Rockne)
Systems Biology Modeler Positions in Biopharma Consulting Company (Helen Moore)
Computational Approaches to Breast Cancer Evolution - Postdoc (Marc Ryser)
Math/statistical models of stem cell lineage dynamics and cancer genomics - Postdoc (Adam MacLean)
Postdoctoral Research Position in Computational Oncology (Tom Yankeelov)
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