Mathematical Biology and Medicine

Forthcoming programs, conferences and workshops

PANDA Leeds, 20 Jan 2012.
Evolution and diversity in complex systems Leeds, 2 Mar 2012.

Recent Publications & Preprints

T-cell movement on the reticular network
Graham M. Donovan and Grant Lythe. Journal of Theoretical Biology 295 59-67 (2012)
Co-existence in the two-dimensional May-Leonard model with random rates
Qian He, Mauro Mobilia, and Uwe C. Täuber. European Physical Journal B 82 97-105 (2011)
Fixation and Polarization in a Three-Species Opinion Dynamics Model
Mauro Mobilia. Europhysics Letters 95 50002:1-6 (2011)
Fixation of a deleterious allele under mutation pressure and finite selection intensity
Michael Assaf and Mauro Mobilia. Journal of Theoretical Biology 275 93-103 (2011)
Spatial rock-paper-scissors models with inhomogeneous reaction rates
Qian He, Mauro Mobilia, and Uwe C. Tauber. Physical Review E 82 051909:1-11 (2010)
An integrative model for vascular endothelial growth factor A as a tumour biomarker
Antony M. Latham, Carmen Molina-París, Shervanthi Homer-Vanniasinkam and Sreenivasan Ponnambalam. Integrative Biology 2 397-4 (2010)
Fixation in Evolutionary Games under Non-Vanishing Selection
Mauro Mobilia and Michael Assaf Europhysics Letters 91 10002:1-6 (2010)
Large fluctuations and fixation in evolutionary games
Michael Assaf and Mauro Mobilia Journal of Statistical Mechanics P09009 (2010)
Stochastic competitive exclusion in the maintenance of the naive T cell repertoire
Emily Stirk, Grant Lythe, Hugo van den Berg and Carmen Molina-París
Journal of Theoretical Biology 265 396-410 (2010)
The limiting conditional distribution in a stochastic model of T cell repertoire maintenance
Emily Stirk, Grant Lythe, Hugo van den Berg, Gareth Hurst and Carmen Molina-París
Mathematical Biosciences 224 74-86 (2010)
Oscillatory Dynamics in Rock-Paper-Scissors Games with Mutations
Mauro Mobilia. Journal of Theoretical Biology 264 1-10 (2010)

Recent programs, conferences and workshops

Theoretical and Experimental Immunology IISc Bangalore, 16 August Abstracts
Theoretical immunology network meeting on 16 May at the University of Leeds
Imaging, Interpretation and Modeling in Modern Immunology Banff, 10-15 April 2011
Physics of Immunity: Complexity Approach 4-8 April 2011, Max-Planck-Institut Dresden
Experimental and theoretical immunology on 18 March at the University of Leeds
Experimental and theoretical immunology in the real world at the University of Leeds 10 January 2011.
Yorkshire Immunology Group "Pattern recognition receptors in the immune system" 24 November 2010, Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Leeds
Movement in Models of Mathematical Biology 15 November 2010, University of Warwick
Stochastic dynamics and applications Monday 18 October 2010, University of Leeds
Immunology, Imaging and Modelling Network Summer School at the University of Leeds 13-17 September 2010.
High-throughput Sequencing, Proteins and Statistics (29th Leeds Annual Statistical Research Workshop) 6th-8th July 2010

Recent Mathematical Biology and Medicine seminars

30 November 2011 Alison Etheridge (Oxford)
Modelling evolution in a spatial continuum
23 November 2011 Stephen Webb (Glasgow)
Computational modelling of cell migration and chemotaxis
16 November 2011 Carlo Berzuini (Cambridge)
Causal inference in genetic epidemiology: looking into mechanism
19 October 2011 Thomas Fink (Cambridge)
The relation between robustness, adaptability, and fitness
18 May 2011 Jon Pitchford (York)
Evolving stochastic strategies: analytical, statistical and computational approaches
Darren Wilkinson (Newcastle) 8 December 2010
Modelling and learning for noisy cellular decisions: motility of Bacillus subtilis
David Westhead (Leeds) 1 December 2010
Metabolic networks, horizontal gene transfer and evolution
Wally Gilks 24 November 2010
(Statistical Genomics Group, Rothamsted Research and Department of Statistics, University of Leeds)
Jorge Carneiro (Instituto Gulbenkian) 10 November 2010
Multiscale modelling of regulatory T cells and immunological tolerance
Christian Yates (Oxford) 27 October 2010
United by noise: Randomness helps swarms stay together