London Mathematical Biology Conference 2023

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SCHEDULE

Monday 18th September

10:30 - 10:40	Welcome
10:40 - 11:15	Wenying Shou - University College London 1, 2, 3…
11:15 - 11:30	Jessie Renton - Queen Mary University of London A somatic genetic clock for clonal organisms
11:30 - 11:45	Andrea Cairoli - The Francis Crick Institute Data-driven modelling of abdominal tissue growth in Drosophila during metamorphosis
11:45 - 12:50	Lunch and Posters (North Cloisters)
12:50 - 13:25	Omer Karin - Imperial College London Self-tuning of long transients in cell biology
13:25 - 13:40	Cara Neal - University of Liverpool The role of non-Newtonian fluids in microswimmer propulsion
13:40 - 13:55	Euan Smithers - Sainsbury Laboratory How do plant leaf pavement cells pattern to form puzzle piece-like shapes?
13:55 - 14:30	Coffee Break and Posters (North Cloisters)
14:30 - 15:05	Berta Verd - University of Oxford Evolving vertebral counts: a mathematical modelling approach
15:05 - 15:20	Santosh Manicka - Tufts University Information integration during bioelectric regulation of morphogenesis of the embryonic frog brain
15:20 - 15:35	Kristian Kiradjiev - University of Nottingham Multiscale asymptotic analysis reveals how cell growth and subcellular compartments affect tissue-scale hormone transport
15:35 - 16:00	Coffee Break and Posters (North Cloisters)
16:00 - 16:35	Carina Dunlop - University of Surrey What do cells and tissues feel? Integrating cell contractility, adhesion and ECM stiffness in mechanosensing.
16:35 - 17:10	Andrew Krause - University of Durham Rethinking Pattern Formation through Nonlinear Dynamics and Web Browsers
17:10 - 17:25	Martina Oliver - Imperial College London Modelling and parameter inference in synthetic reaction-diffusion patterns
18:00	Conference dinner (Cabana)

Tuesday 19th September

09:00 - 09:35	Mohit Dalwadi - University College London A universal spatiotemporal robustness in pattern formation
09:35 -10:10	James di Frisco - The Francis Crick Institute The complementarity of mathematical and conceptual theoretical biology
10:10 - 10:25	Svetlana Petrenko - University College London Modelling of Silica Pattern Formation in Diatoms Using a Continuum Approach
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break and Posters (North Cloisters)
11:00 - 11:35	Barbara Bravi - Imperial College London Machine learning-guided modelling of immune protein interactions
11:35 - 11:50	Mohit Kumar Jolly - Indian Institute of Science Landscape of epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity as an emergent property of coordinated teams in regulatory networks
11:50 - 12:05	Patricia Lamirande - University of Oxford Mean First Passage Time and its Application in Ocular Drug Development
12:05 - 12:20	Yaron Ben-Ami - University of Oxford A probabilistic-continuum two-phase model for tumour cell migration induced by interstitial flow
12:20 - 13:20	Lunch (North Cloisters)
13:20 - 14:20	Plenary talk: Philip Maini University of Oxford Modelling collective cell movement: mathematical challenges and biological applications