Optimizing Biofilm Removal Bacterial biofilms are consortia of bacteria enmeshed in a self-produced polymer network. Biofilms occur in a wide variety of settings and impact health, water quality, manufacturing, and …

Mathematical modeling of diabetes Diabetes is the leading endocrine disease affecting socioeconomic development and has multiple pathogenic pathways. Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is the most common type of diabetes primarily …

Modeling of Drosophila Egg Chamber: Chemical Distribution, Force Balance, and Clustered Cell Migration The Drosophila melanogaster egg chamber provides an accessible biological model for clustered cell dynamics in development, metastasis, …

Dynamics of a linearly-perturbed May-Leonard competition model The May-Leonard model was introduced to examine the behavior of three competing populations where rich dynamics, such as limit cycles and nonperiodic cyclic …

Optimization of Immunotherapy Treatment Regimen for Glioblastoma The most common and aggressive primary brain cancer, Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), exhibits a highly immune-suppressed tumor microenvironment. Monotherapy with anti-PD-1—a common immunotherapy which …

Immunotherapy: Using math to help the immune system fight cancer In recent years, immunotherapy has been taking a central role in cancer therapies. In this talk we will provide an …