Jonathan H. Vo, John Lowengrub Lab

Title: Glioblastoma Recurrence Modeling Abstract: Glioblastoma is the most lethal and prevalent form of cancer to the central nervous system. Its life expectancy is a few years, and in that time the tumor evolves pretty rapidly while modifying its microenvironment in...

Jonathan Rodriguez, John Lowengrub Lab

Title: Mathematical Modeling of Normal and Cancerous Hematopoiesis Abstract: Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a blood cancer in which there is dysregulation of maturing myeloid cells (granulocytes) driven by a chromosomal mutation which creates the fusion gene,...

Professor Thomas Kuhlman, UC Riverside

Title: Watching mutations and evolutionary dynamics in live cells and in real time Abstract: Evolution allows us to understand the diversity of life and the development of species and populations over a wide range of size and time scales. Evolution occurs as a result...

Matt Bovyn, Allard and Gross Labs

Title: Cargo transport, from the mesoscale out Abstract: Eukaryotic cells are divided into a complex system of compartments, with their spatial organization ever-changing to enable cell functions. For example, in neurons, packages of neurotransmitters are transported...