Mathematics for Health and Disease

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Mathematics for Health and Disease

 13 - 17 Apr 2015

ICMS, 15 South College Street Edinburgh

Scientific Organisers:

  • Grant Lythe, University of Leeds
  • Gautam Menon, Institute of Mathematical Sciences
  • Carmen Molina-Paris, University of Leeds
  • Govindan Rangarajan, Indian Institute of Science
  • Sitabhra Sinha, Institute of Mathematical Sciences

About:

The primary objective of this meeting was to identify research themes in the area of mathematics for health and disease. This led to new collaborations between the countries, the exchange of young scientists, and the submission of joint research grants. The second objective of this meeting was to enhance and train the strong mathematical biology communities in India and the UK, with particular emphasis on young scientists in the field. The meeting brought state-of-the-art knowledge to the Indian and UK applied mathematics communities, improved communication, disseminated new results and encouraged novel approaches to existing problems.

Speakers:

  • Sebastian Funk & Anton Camacho, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - Introduction to Modelling for Infectious Disease Dynamics

  • Anton Camacho, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - Mechanistic Modelling of Ebola Virus Transmission: The 1976 Yambuku Outbreak Revisited

  • Sebastian Funk, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - Modelling for the Ebola Epidemic in West Africa

  • Thomas Laws, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory - Computational Modelling of Francisella Tularensis Infection

  • Somdatta Sinha, Indian Institute of Science Education & Research - Modelling Malaria Prevalence in India

  • Vineeta Bal, National Institute of Immunology - Heterogeneity in Immune Cytome at Population Level in humans

  • Gautam Menon, Institute of Mathematical Sciences - A Computational Model for Chromosome Positioning

  • Steven Wiley, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - The Virtuous Circle: Combining Models and Experiments to Understand Cell Signalling

  • Sitabhra Sinha, Institute of Mathematical Sciences - Learning and Memory in the Eukaryotic Cell: Emergence of Sensitization and Adaptation in Intra-Cellular Signalling

  • Radhia Eljazi, Heriot-Watt University - Mathematical Model Of Gliomas

  • Maria Nowicka, University of Leeds - Stochastic Models for Binding Kinetics of VEGF-A with VEGFR1/VEGFR2 in Endothelial Cells

  • Steven Wiley, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory - Constraining Cell Type-Specific Models of Signalling Pathways with Quantitative Proteomics Data

  • Sreenivasan Ponnambalam, University of Leeds - Multi-Disciplinary Approaches Towards Understanding Vascular Physiology in Health and Disease

  • Gwen Knight, Imperial College London - The Dynamics of Drug-Resistance Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Transmission

  • Elizabeth Gothard, University of York - Quantitative Models of Cutaneous Wound Healing

  • Nagasuma Chandra, Indian Institute of Science - Modelling Host Heterogeneity and CTL Immune Response-Types: Predicting Susceptibility to H1N1 Influenza

  • Dipankar Nandi, Indian Institute of Science - Studies on Thymocyte Subsets During Atrophy Upon Salmonella Typhimurium Infection

  • Aridaman Pandit, Utrecht University - Branching Processes to Model Differentiation of Effector and Memory CD8+ T Cells

  • Grant Lythe, University of Leeds - Competition Model of the T-cell Repertoire 

  • Carmen Molina-Paris, University of Leeds - IL-7 in Naive T Cell Homeostasis: Modelling at the Molecular, Cellular and Population Scales

  • Karen Page, University College London - Mathematical Modelling of Vertebrate Neural Tube Patterning 

  • Ben Seddon, University College London - Turnover and Heterogeneity in Naive T Lymphocyte Populations in Mice

  • Valentine Svensson, EMBL-EBI - Studying Cyclic Processes in Single-Cell RNA-Seq Data Using Computational Topology

  • Farhat Habib, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research - Genome Scale Genotype-Phenotype Correlation While Considering Phylogeny

  • Reidun Twarock, University of York - Geometry: A Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Viruses 

  • Mukta Deobagkar, Welcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics - Role of Fnip1 in B Cell Development and Metabolism

  • Marco Ferrarini, University of Leeds - T-Cell Clonal Sizes Simulations: An Exploration of Random Extractions

  • Luis de la Higuera, University of Leeds - A Stochastic Approach on T-Cell Co-Stimulation