Biology in Numbers

...where we talk: complexity, the beauty in science and Practical Magic.

In his own words: Arturo is a computational cancer scientist specialising in agent-based modelling, AI and tumour evolution. I bridge mechanistic biology and computation to understand complex systems and develop models that can improve cancer research and patient care.
That is when he’s not getting therapy through podcast recordings.
Learn more about Arturo and his art on his website: www.arturoaraujo.com, and you can follow him on BlueSky: @cosmicarturo.
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The website: smb.org
Bluesky: @smbmathbiology.bsky.social
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The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
The MathBioNexus

...where everyone got together to talk MathBio in Graz, Austria.
This year the SMB meeting was held together with the European Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Biology. In between hiking some hills and enjoying the local pumpkin seed oil the attendees stopped to speak about their work on women’s health, and social determination of measles, and a precious baseball card collection.
[00:47] Philip Gerlee,  Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
[09:26]  Alex Johnson, North Carolina State University, USA.
[13:21]  Bhavana Murankar, North Carolina State University, USA.
[19:11]  Dan Mark Orapa, University of the Philippines, Philippines.
[24:00]  Volkan Ozcoban, University of Melbourne, Australia.
[34:52]  Angela Peace, Virginia Tech, USA.
[38:33]  Jorge Velasco Hernandez. National University of Mexico, Mexico.
[45:49]  Mohammad Zahid, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer, Texas.
Learn more about the new SMB webinar series MathBioNexus:
https://www.smb.org/mathbionexus
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The website: smb.org
Bluesky: @smbmathbiology.bsky.social
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The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
The MathBioNexus

...where we talk about a paper studying: parameters for glow in the dark cells.

Veronica Ciocanel is an Assistant Professor in Math (primary) and Biology (joint) at Duke University. In her research, she applies techniques from dynamical systems and data-driven modeling to questions in cell and developmental biology.
Find out more about Veronica’s work on her website: https://sites.math.duke.edu/~ciocanel/
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The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

...where we talk: an induction to MathBio, neuroscience in flies, and optimizing coffee breaks.
Lukas did a PhD at the University of Oxford and a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, where he discovered how single neurons implement basic arithmetic operations. Now he is an associate professor at the Medical University of Graz.
Learn more about Lukas’ work on his website: groschner-lab.org, and follow him on bluesky: @lukasgroschner.bsky.social

Also find out more about this year's annual mathbio meeting at: ecmtb2026.org
Find out more about SMB on:
The website: smb.org
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The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

...where we talk time at Los Alamos, modeling TB, and tips for international flights.
Dr. Kirschner was the first mathematics professor appointed in a medical school. She researches immune responses to infections using multiscale modeling. She served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Theoretical Biology for 20 years and as president of SMB.
Learn more about Denise’s work on her website:http://malthus.micro.med.umich.edu
Note: an earlier version of this recording mentioned that Denise and her colleagues published the first agent-based model within a host system. This has been updated to reflect that this was actually the first spatial agent-based model.
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The website: smb.org
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The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology