Biology in Numbers

where we talk multi-scale models, community building, and peanuts in cereal...
Daniel is an immigrant from Ecuador who got his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 2019. He had two postdoc positions prior to joining the faculty at Cal Poly SLO. Outside of research & teaching, Daniel engages in community building.
Find out about Daniel’s research and teaching on his website:https://sites.google.com/view/dcruz
And follow him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcruz-mathbio/
Learn more about Lathisms the nonprofit Daniel volunteers with: https://www.lathisms.org/
Check out the SMB’s principles of community here:https://smb.org/page-1369878

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The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

...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