The Ecology and Evolution of Cancer
Description
This workshop explores research in methods aimed at connecting mathematical models of cancer evolution and clinical data. It focuses on ecology and evolution of cancer. Traditionally, ecology and evolution have been the most “mathematical” (and perhaps the first mathematical) areas of biology. Mathematical contributions to these fields made in the 20th century are now fundamental parts of scientific knowledge. More recently, methods of ecology and evolution have found their way into oncology, bridging traditional molecular biology and mathematics including stochastic processes, dynamical systems, and nonlinear partial differential equations. New biological challenges lead to difficult mathematical problems and beautiful solutions, which are both innovative mathematically and impactful from the point of view of public health. These will be the focus of the proposed workshop .
The workshop will combine several distinct (but interconnected) topics:
1. Evolutionary parameters: determining evolutionary parameters from genomic data, reconstructing evolutionary histories from tumor ’omics data, from genes to function.
2. Laws of evolution and cancer: spatial evolution, evolution in hierarchical populations, cooperation and predation, selection, resistance.
3. Cellular plasticity in cancer and associated estimation/inference problems, epigenetics.
4. Combining machine learning and modeling approaches to forecasting disease progression.
This workshop focuses on cutting-edge topics in the mathematical oncology community. The proposed topics span a wide range from evolutionary modeling, to data-driven approaches, including machine learning, parameter estimation and prediction. By bringing together these communities, we hope to foster collaborations that integrate the insights of mechanistic modeling with data-driven approaches, to address current problems in oncology.
Registration Instruction:
To participate in this workshop, please register here.
Registered Participants
Name | Affiliation |
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Abdulafeez Abdulkareem | Lagos State University |
Leoncie ABIZEYIMANA | African Institute for Mathematical Sciences Research and Innovation Center(AIMS RIC) |
Trushdeep Agrawal | SVNGMC Yavatmal |
Georgina al-Badri | University College London |
Hira Ali | Isabella Thoburn College |
Matías Alvarado-Mentado | Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional |
Noelia Andrades Pérez | |
M. Ali Asadi-Vasfi | University of Toronto |
SABIA ASGHAR | UHasselt |
Subbalakshmi Ayalur Raghu | City of Hope |
Rowan Barker-Clarke | Case Western Reserve University |
Maryam Basiri | Toronto Metropolitan University |
Chris Beekman | MGH / Harvard Medical School |
Abdelaziz Ben Lahbib | Mohammed V University in Rabat |
Lori Brill | |
Mia Brunetti | Université de Montréal |
Alexander Bykovsky | Arizona State University |
Ryan Carr | Mayo Clinic |
Giulia Laura Celora | University College London |
Judith Cerit | |
Sophie Dabo | |
Ayesha Das | UT Austin |
Mark Davies | Swansea University |
Troy Day | Queen's University |
Andrew Dhawan | Cleveland Clinic |
Benedetta Dionisi Ferrera | Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano |
Cody B Duncan | University Hospital Cologne |
Peter Embacher | University College London |
Adeyemi Fagbade | University of Wyoming |
Farnoush Farahpour | University Duisburg-Essen |
Sefah Frimpong | University of Waterloo |
Sita Gakkhar | California Institute of Technology |
Kit Gallagher | |
Katyayni Ganesan | University Hospital Cologne |
Maryam Garba | Northumbria University |
Luciana Garbayo | Harvard Medical School |
James Greene | Clarkson University |
Itamar Halevy | |
Kamyar Hazaveh | University of Toronto |
Thomas Hillen | University of Alberta |
Alena Ho | University of Toronto |
Weini Huang | Queen Mary University of London |
Yitong Huang | Northwestern University |
Zhijian Hu | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
Jacopo Iacovacci | Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori di Milano |
Sana Jahedi | University of Maryland College Park |
Sophia Jang | Texas Tech University |
Jaewook Joo | |
Umesh Kumar Joshi | CSIR - National Chemical Laboratory, Pune (India) |
Irina Kareva | |
Anum Kazerouni | University of Washington, Seattle |
Mohammad Kohandel | University of Waterloo |
Pawan Kumar | Université de Montpellier |
Richard Leon | Woodlands Biotechnology Consulting |
Chongming Li | Queen's University |
Zhaozhi Li | Cornell University |
Georgios Lolas | |
Leonie Lorenz | University of Cambridge |
Rhiannon Loster | University of Guelph |
Maryam Maleki | Isfahan University of Technology |
AMERICO MATUSSE | Universidade Eduardo Mondlane |
Scott McCain | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Faisal Naqib | University of Toronto |
Barry Ngo | University of Ottawa |
Phuong-Nam Nguyen | University of South Florida |
Fnu Nisha | Clemson University |
Elharrar Noureddine | Faculté des Sciences Semlalia Marrakech |
Oluwafemi Samson Olagbami | |
Kayode Olumoyin | Moffitt Cancer Center |
Elena Osipyan | University of Toronto |
Reshmi Patel | University of Texas at Austin |
Q Peng | Leiden University |
Gibin Powathil | Swansea University |
Sumaira Rehman | Fields CQAM |
Omid Rezania | York University |
Joel Rojas | University of Costa Rica |
Gopinath Sadhu | Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati |
Payel Sadhukhan | The Neotia University |
Yuka Saito | University of Toronto |
Jason Schweinsberg | University of California, San Diego |
Mudita Shukla | CSIR - National Chemical Laboratory, Pune (India) |
Gurnoor Singh | Prayag College |
Jaskirat Pal Singh | Central University of Punjab |
Siv Sivaloganathan | University of Waterloo |
Jordan Snyder | Roskilde University |
Eduardo Sontag | Northeastern University |
Tracy Stepien | University of Florida |
Seemadri Subhadarshini | The Fields Institute |
Wai Shing Tang | |
Edward Taylor | |
Patrick Mimphis Tchepmo Djomegni | North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus |
Ryan Thiessen | University of Alberta |
Vladimir Vinogradov | Ohio University and University of Toronto |
Weixiao Wang | University of Pennsylvania |
Jeffrey West | Moffitt Cancer Center |
Kathleen Wilkie | Toronto Metropolitan University |
Zhi Zhang | University of Toronto |
Rujing Zhao | Western University |
Organizing Committee
Jasmine Foo -
Univ. of Minnesota
Jesse Kreger -
University of Southern California
Dominik Wodarz -
University of California, Irvine