Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences - PIMS

Mathematical Study of Brain Tumor Therapies

Glioma is the most serious malignant brain tumor. In order to improve the efficacy of therapies, it is important to understand its progression with therapies and its genesis. In this talk, I will first present our effort in understanding of glioma   more››

University of British Columbia

An in-silico model of early tumor development dynamics - implications for treatment design

Cancer development may be considered an evolutionary process whereby genetically unstable cell clones compete under selective influences of the local environment and succeed in accordance with the relative fitnesses of their expressed phenotypes. The   more››

University of Alberta

PIMS Mathematical Biology Summer Workshops

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University of Alberta

Analysis of membrane-localized binding kinetics with FRAP

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University of Alberta

The effect of wind on the propagation of forest fires

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University of Alberta

Mathematical analysis of FRAP data reveals a differential response of histone H1 variants to the anticancer drug TSA

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University of Alberta

Analysis of immune cell chemotaxis and signal integration

In response to an injury, immune cells are recruited to fight off infecting microbes and clear cellular damage. A number of chemicals, called chemoattractants, are produced at or near sites of infection and inflammation and diffuse into the surrou   more››

University of British Columbia

Data cloning: easy maximum likelihood estimation for complex ecological models using Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo methods

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University of Alberta

Mathematical modelling of intracellular polarization

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University of Alberta

Mathematical Modeling of Colon Carcinogenesis

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University of Alberta

Emerging Infectious Disease, Pandemic Preparedness and Mathematical Models: How to Prepare When We Don't Know the Enemy?

The underlying contact structure among individuals that determines the pattern of disease transmission and the progression in time of this pattern are two crucial elements in understanding and controlling communicable disease spread within a socia   more››

University of British Columbia

Mathematical approaches to understanding T cell activation by specific antigen

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University of Alberta

Modeling the Pulsatile Secretion of Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone (GnRH) by Synchronized GnRH Neurons

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University of Alberta

Switches, oscillations, and the dynamics of monotone dynamical systems

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University of Alberta

What is Mathematical Biology and How Useful is It?

Biological processes are very complex, and mathematical models of such processes are at best just a crude approximation. Nevertheless, one can gain some useful knowledge from the models. In this talk, I shall give examples of biological and biomed   more››

Simon Fraser University

International Graduate Training Centre in Mathematical Biology - First Graduate Research Summit

The IGTC is a new PIMS initiative to develop and enhance graduate training opportunities in the Pacific Northwest. As part of this Math-Biology IGTC, the Graduate Research Summit will provide an opportunity for graduate students, post-docs and   more››

University of British Columbia

Stable segregation of PAR proteins in the early C elegans embryo

PAR proteins, collectively termed the anterior and posterior PAR proteins, establish distinct intracellular spatial domains in the one cell C elegans embryo, polarizing the cell. This polarization is persistent, lasting approximately 10-20 minutes   more››

University of British Columbia

A Non-Equilibrium Steady-State Theory of Phosphorylation-Dephosphorylation Switch in Cellular Signalling

We present a mathematical theory for a biochemical switch system, which can be either the phosphorylation-dephosphorylation cycle (PdPC) reactions catalyzed by a kinase and a phosphatase, or GTPase cycles catalyzed by a guanine exchange factor (GE   more››

University of British Columbia

PIMS Mathematical Biology 2007 Summer Workshop

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University of Alberta

Evolutionary and Population Dynamics of Bacteria and Phage

Bacterial viruses, aka bacteriophage or phage, are ubiquitous in nature, yet many central aspects of host-phage biology have not been integrated into mathematical models. In this talk I present a series of theoretical efforts to understand the div   more››

University of British Columbia