Biology in Numbers

…where we talk about a paper studying: who and when we should vaccinate. After completing a DPhil in Statistics from the University of Oxford, focussing in epidemiology and phylogenetics, Matt now works as a data scientist for Italian football club Como 1907. Matt was awarded the Lee A. Segel Prize for Best Student Paper published in The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology: Asymptotic Analysis of Optimal Vaccination Policies. Join us to learn more about how this paper can help health professionals better assess the best way to distribute vaccines. Find out more about Matt and his work on Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/matthew-penn-732551232/ Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

…where we talk parasites, motorbikes, and digital twins. Professor Reinhard Laubenbacher is: the Director of Laboratory for Systems Medicine at the University of Florida, an AAAS fellow (American Association for the Advancement of Science), and a scientist interested in using math to understand human disease and more specifically fungal infections in the lungs. When not at work, Reinhard and his wife enjoy motorbiking everywhere from the swamps of Florida, to the plains of Patagonia. Find out more about Reinhard’s work on the following websites: https://systemsmedicine.pulmonary.medicine.ufl.edu/ https://systemsmedicine.pulmonary.medicine.ufl.edu/profile/laubenbacher-reinhard/ Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

…where we talk about infectious diseases, mentorship and mathematical tattoos. Professor Stacey Smith? is an infectious disease modeler who appreciates the real world impacts that math biology can have. She leads educational and mentorship programming at the SMB and apparently never says no to anything SMB related. We caught Stacey at SMB 2024 in South Korea to talk about her research, life-changing transitions, and being a Whovian. Check out Stacey’s website for science, articles and Sci-Fi nerdiness: mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/ And for those curious about the tattoo, read more about the Mandlebrot set: wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

…where we talk all things math bio at the annual meeting. Science isn’t complete until it’s communicated, and what better place to do this than a scientific conference. This year, more than a thousand scientists were lucky enough to attend the SMB meeting in Seoul in Korea. This special episode gives a brief preview of some of the exciting research being done, as well as the people doing the work. Join us to hear from: Fred Adler - Professor at the University of Utah, Utah, US Kit Gallagher - Doctoral student at the University of Oxford, US & Moffitt Cancer Center, Florida, US Megan Greischer - Assistant Professor at Cornell University, New York, US Jona Kayser - Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Medicine, Erlangen, Germany Bo-Moon Kim - Doctoral student at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Breanne Sparta - Postdoctoral Researcher at UCLA, Los Angeles, US Rossana Vermiglio - Full professor at the University of Udine, Udine, Italy. Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology