Biology in Numbers

...where we talk physician-scientists, sepsis and making your own dragon head.
Dr. An is a clinically active trauma/critical care surgeon who also does computational research that integrates high-resolution agent-based models with ML and AI to study inflammatory processes such as sepsis and wound healing.
He also likes considering sandwiches in abstraction.
Find out more about Gary and his work on his website:Website: https://www.medicaldigitaltwins.ai/
or follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gary-an-561ba426/
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The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

...where we talk foraging cancer cells, science policy and dancing.

Ranjini is a final-year PhD student in the IMO Department at Moffitt Cancer Center. She uses evolutionary game theory to study cancer foraging. Outside of her research, Ranjini engages in science communication and science policy with non-expert audiences, and loves to engage her creative side.
You can connect with her on Linkedin.
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The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

These days you can’t throw a stone without hitting some form of AI. Whether it’s to control your home sound system, or looking for a novel way to treat disease, we are still in the learning stages of how best to use these technologies.
So Biology in Numbers welcomes back Reinhard Laubenbacher, current SMB president, who talks about some uses in the field, its relevance in education, and why math biologists and the larger scientific community need to get ahead of AI to ensure it is incorporated into research in a meaningful way.
Here’s a useful and pretty primer for anyone completely new to AI: from the BBC.
For those interested in that foundational paper by McCulloch and Pitts here’s the link: A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity.
If you’d like to leave any suggestions for Reinhard on the subject, you can reach him at: Reinhard.Laubenbacher[at]medicine.ufl.edu
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The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

...where we talk body clocks, timing your meds and Ways and Means Subcommittees.
Dr. Olivia Walch is the CEO of Arcascope and an investigator at the University of Michigan, where she studies the mathematics of sleep and circadian rhythms through simulations and wearable devices.
She also has a penchant for boots in the winter.
Find out more about Olivia’s work at Arcascope: https://arcascope.com/
Buy her book Sleep Groove on bookshop.org
And for those of you wanting to learn more about the Geometry of Gerrymandering, check out the 2Scientists podcast episode with Dr. Thomas Weighill:https://2scientists.org/podcast/gerrymander
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The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

…where we talk conference things in Canada.

The annual SMB meeting is THE international gathering for mathbio nerds, and this year was no exception. 673 conference attendees traveled from 34 countries around the world to meet up in Edmonton, Canada. Join us to learn more from some of these researchers and work on social media in outbreaks, bibliometric analyses and the occasional elk sighting.
[00:41] Adam MacLean, University of Southern California, USA.
[05:08] Amy Hurford, Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
[09:45] Francisca Olajide, University of Ottawa, Canada.
[16:41] Gosia Weh, Moffitt Cancer Center, Florida, USA.
[22:16] Kira Pugh, Uppsala University, Sweden.
[25:35] Luis Sordo Vieira, University of Florida, USA.
[28:22] Mobolaji Williams, Howard University, Washington DC, USA.
[33:43] Paul Macklin, Indiana University, USA.
[41:01] Parmvir Bahia, Scientists Inc, Tampa, USA & Artha Science Media, London, UK.
[47:15] Thomas Woolley, Cardiff University in Wales, UK.
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The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology