This was fun and great to learn about the research (and trivia) of colleagues from #SMB2025 this summer in Edmonton. Thanks to @parmvir.com for hosting a great podcast 🙌 🧬 🔢
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Looking forward to seeing you again soon Canada. Thank you to #SMB2025 organizers and participants (old friends and new) for the wonderful time.
Thank you for the hospitaltity Edmonton 🇨🇦
Thanks for the great science and great company. Next year will be time to swap the poutine for pilsner and I'll hope to see you in Graz! #SMB2025
Couldn't leave Canada without breakfast poutine. Some scattered thoughts and Takeaways from #SMB2025...
I had a super fun week, so many conversations, short and long, with science friends old and new.
Gave a talk about about this recentally published paper at #SMB2025 on the how and when the tempo and mode of environmental fluctuations impact population growth
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Had a GREAT time at #SMB2025. Very well organized (thank s Jay Newby & Hao Wang!) in the lovely city of Edmonton. Heard lots of great talks, had numerous fun convesations, & learnt so much. Highly recommend joining @smbmathbiology.bsky.social & atttending their meetings!
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@mathcancer.bsky.social speaking in the last session on the last day of #SMB2025 - the room is full though so I know I'm not the only one excited ;)
I was 1 of 2 scheduled speakers in the last contributed talk session at #SMB2025 & the other didn't show. I'm thankful for the 7 engaged audience members consisting of 3 strangers & 4 friends & for see you later hugs I got today. I love the math bio research community that spans the globe.
My group was equally distributed among the first (Monday) and last (Friday) day at #SMB2025. But this just made sure we spent a fully lovely week in Edmonton.
Graduate student Brandon Imstepf is giving the last Sindi Lab related talk using ML to accelerate network transport models. :)
Mutational landscape to go from one word to another one with mutations, insertions and inversions.
And ending with the Cree language was such a beautiful and meaningful touch - honoring the language of many First Nations peoples and connecting science with culture. #SMB2025
Holy Crow - and now there's like experiments that explore how evolution under temperature operates in bacteriophage. Very nice.
"Hierarchical genotype networks and incipient ecological speciation in Qβ phage quasispecies"
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I have my reading for the flight home #SMB2025 ;)
Final plenary from Susanna Manrubia at #SMB2025 is another phenomenal plenary talk. Building critical concepts through historical storytelling - starting with Lewis Carroll.
TLDR; genotype space is massive! Astronomically large redundancy between genotype and phenotype.
Photo of Susan Manrubia presenting the first slide of her plenary talk at the SMB meeting (featuring a picture of Lewis Carroll).
Photo of slide explaining the doublets word game invented by Lewis Carroll.
Starting off the final afternoon of #SMB2025, Susanna Manrubia from Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC) is giving a plenary talk on "The challenge of scale in molecular adaptation: Myopic searches in hyperastronomical genotype networks".
Photo of Carolin Grumbach gicing an introduction to the talk.
Photo of a slide showing a cartoon of a deer population to serve as an exampls of a generic population.
Wrapping up the session, Carolin Grumbach from Osnabrück University is giving a talk titled
"Allee Pits in Metapopulations: When Increasing Dispersal Can Backfire."
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Slide presenting the key variables and a flow chart for the model from Yun Kang's talk.
Photo of Yun Kang presenting the introduction of her talk at the SMB session.
Now Yun Kang from Arizona State University is giving a talk on "Migration Dynamics and Collective Decision-Making in Social Insect Colonies".
#SMB2025
Mohit
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Metastasis:responsible for most of cancer deaths
Final #MathOnco keynote at #SMB2025 @smbmathbiology.bsky.social with Mohit K. Jolly taling about Epithelial to Messenchymal Plasticity (EMP). Great talk and of great importance not just for #metastasis (the context in which it is usually studied) but also #treatmentResistance
Photo of Rachidi Salako providing an introduction to his talk at the SMB session.
Slide presenting background material on the SIS model foe infecrious disease transmission.
Next up, Rachidi Salako from UNLV is giving a talk titled "On a Cross-diffusive SIS Epidemic Model with Singular Sensitivity".
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Photo of Wenxiao Shwn providing an introduction to her talk in the session.
Slide from Wenxiao Chen's talk highlighting different kinds of nonlineairities in scalar reaction-diffusion equations.
Now I am sitting in on part two of this session, which is starting with a talk by Wenxian Shen from Auburn University on "Front Propagation Dynamics in Fisher KPP Equations on Unbounded Metric Graphs".
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Mohit Jolly kicking off the last day of #SMB2025 presenting a compelling case for understanding EMT via gene exp "teams"
Ending with a heartfelt shoutout to the 'SMB team'
Q: Which is more important: the journey or the destination?
A: the company.
Love this, accept "identity crisis" as an identity!!
I think a lot of us between fields/disciplines "am I really a <BLANK>"
Thanks to Mohit K Jolly for that piece of life wisdom as well as the science.
#SMB2025!!!
Photo of Moit Kumar Jolly presenting the Winfree Prize lecture.
Slide from Mohit Kumar Jolly's plenary lecture askinv the question if the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition is binary, featuring an image of the "what if I told you" meme from The Matrix.
Kicking off the last day of #SMB2025, Mohit Kumar Jolly from the Indian Institute of Science is giving the Arthur Winfree Prize lecture on "Dynamical modeling of cell-state transitions enabling cancer metastasis and therapy resistance".
Looking forward to the morning plenary from Mohit Kumar Jolly #SMB2025
Last day of a great meeting, it always feels like the last day of camp!!
A slide presenting the modified Klausmeier model for vegetation dynamics.
Photo of Chunyi Gai introducing her yalk at the SMB session.
Wrapping up the afternoon portion of this #SMB2025 session, Chunyi Gai from the University of Northern British Columbia is giving a talk on
"Resource-mediated Competition between Two Plant Species with Different Rates of Water Intake".
Riley
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Riley Manning (now at @math.onco) showing her work at University of Minnesota modeling tumor-immune interactions in glioblastoma and how computational models #MathOnco can help us explore how different aspects of these interactions can explain different […]
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A slude from Yijun Luo's talk presenting motivation for tje talk by introducing a system of delay differential equations fir the groeth of a two-stage population.
Photo of Yijun Luo introducing background material for his talk at the SMB meeting.
Now Yijun Lou from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University is giving a talk on the "Dynamics of a Reaction-diffusion System with Time-periodic and Spatially Dependent Delay: A Quotient Space Approach".
#SMB2025
Photo of slide introducing a PDE model describing logistic groeth witj diffusion and heterogeneous growth rates in space.
Photo of Adrian Lam giving the introduction to his talk.
Next up is Adrian Lam from the Ohio State University, who is giving a talk on the question "Can Spatial Heterogeneity Alone Lead to Selection for Dispersal?".
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I couldn't make it to #SMB2025 this year, but my sources tell me #MuSpAn managed to make the journey over to Canada!
If you enjoyed Sergio's talk, do take a look at docs.muspan.co.uk and see if it'd be useful for your data / agent based models / anything else spatial that you've got lying around!
This afternoon, I am sitting in on part one of the #SMB2025 session on "Advances in Spatial Ecological and Epidemiological Modeling and Analysis", organized by Daozhou Gao (Cleveland State University) and Xingfu Zou (University of Western Ontario).
Photo of Yang Kuang giving a plenary lecture at the SMB meeting.
Slide from Yang Kuang's plenary talk illustrating a cell quota model for populayion growth.
Starting off the Thrsday afternoon programme at #SMB2025, Yang Kuang from Arizona State University is giving a plenary talk on "Data-driven mathematical models in ecology: Exciting opportunities and promising approaches".
