Podcasts about mathematical biology

… where we talk: Hawks and Doves, social media and the PhD comics. Dan Cooney is a mathematical biologist interested in modeling evolutionary dynamics across scales and exploring collective behavior in complex biological and social systems. He also enjoys reading, traveling, and “applied game theory” to baseball and chess. Find out more about Dan's work on his website: https://publish.illinois.edu/danielbcooney, or follow him on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/danielcooney1.bsky.social Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Bluesky: @smbmathbiology.bsky.social Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

We continue our exploration of some of the issues that could crop up if assisted dying becomes law under The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill that is currently working its way through Parliament.Today we consider what those final moments might be like and if the ideal of a peaceful death is a reality with the drug options currently available.To discuss we're joined by:Katherine Sleeman - Professor of Palliative Care at King's College London David Nicholl - Consultant Neurologist at University Hospital Birmingham Mark Taubert - Consultant Palliative Medicine at NHS Wales Erica Borgstrom - Professor of Medical Anthropology at The Open UniversityIt's claimed that within each of us there is a credit card's worth of microplastics. We dig into the figures underlying that with Kit Yates, Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath.And, we answer your questions after our programme on hearing loss with audiologist Dr Hannah Cooper, Kevin Munro, Professor of Audiology at the University of Manchester and Nish Mehta, an Ear, Nose and Throat surgeon at Royal National ENT Hospital.Presenter: James Gallagher Producers: Hannah Robins and Tom Bonnett Editor: Holly Squire

… where we talk changing cancer cells, awards and the Indian Institutes of Technology. Mohit leads an interdisciplinary research team working on elucidating the dynamics of metastasis and drug resistance, through developing multi-scale mathematical models in close collaboration with experimental and clinical colleagues. He and his group do this work powered by many cups of chai. Find out more about Mohit's group and their work on the following website: https://be.iisc.ac.in/~mkjolly/. Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Bluesky: @smbmathbiology.bsky.social Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Support the show to get full episodes, full archive, and join the Discord community. Gabriele Scheler co-founded the Carl Correns Foundation for Mathematical Biology. Carl Correns was her great grandfather, one of the early pioneers in genetics. Gabriele is a computational neuroscientist, whose goal is to build models of cellular computation, and much of her focus is on neurons. We discuss her theoretical work building a new kind of single neuron model. She, like Dmitri Chklovskii a few episodes ago, believes we've been stuck with essentially the same family of models for a neuron for a long time, despite minor variations on those models. The model Gabriele is working on, for example, respects the computations going on not only externally, via spiking, which has been the only game in town forever, but also the computations going on within the cell itself. Gabriele is in line with previous guests like Randy Gallistel, David Glanzman, and Hessam Akhlaghpour, who argue that we need to pay attention to how neurons are computing various things internally and how that affects our cognition. Gabriele also believes the new neuron model she's developing will improve AI, drastically simplifying the models by providing them with smarter neurons, essentially. We also discuss the importance of neuromodulation, her interest in wanting to understand how we think via our internal verbal monologue, her lifelong interest in language in general, what she thinks about LLMs, why she decided to start her own foundation to fund her science, what that experience has been like so far. Gabriele has been working on these topics for many years, and as you'll hear in a moment, she was there when computational neuroscience was just starting to pop up in a few places, when it was a nascent field, unlike its current ubiquity in neuroscience. Gabriele's website. Carl Correns Foundation for Mathematical Biology. Neuro-AI spinoff Related papers Sketch of a novel approach to a neural model. Localist neural plasticity identified by mutual information. Related episodes BI 199 Hessam Akhlaghpour: Natural Universal Computation BI 172 David Glanzman: Memory All The Way Down BI 126 Randy Gallistel: Where Is the Engram? 0:00 - Intro 4:41 - Gabriele's early interests in verbal thinking 14:14 - What is thinking? 24:04 - Starting one's own foundation 58:18 - Building a new single neuron model 1:19:25 - The right level of abstraction 1:25:00 - How a new neuron would change AI

where we talk: the Akira Okobu prize, the Fokker-Planck equation, and the movement of bears. Mark Lewis is a mathematical ecologist at the University of Victoria. He uses mathematical models to understand the environment and our human impacts. He tries to maintain that work life balance by spending that hard-earned free time curling. Find out more about Mark's groups' work on the following website: https://lewisresearchlab.org/ Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Bluesky: @smbmathbiology.bsky.social Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

…where we talk: society nominations, prion proteins and murderbots. Professor Suzanne Sindi is a Mathematical Biologist studying protein aggregation, and blood coagulation through modeling and data science. She is passionate about promoting inclusion in math and STEM, and was inspired to go into science by dinosaur-related Sci-Fi. Find out more about Suzanne's work on her website: https://www.sindilab.com/ If you feel inspired to step up, you can learn more about nominations for SMB positions by emailing: nominations@smb.org Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Bluesky: @smbmathbiology.bsky.social Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

After rave reviews of his debut novel, EFM Matthew Becker has two more books coming soon. In this episode, find out how an academic mathematician with a past work in missile tracking and  COVID test kit distribution analysis became an EFM and followed a secret dream to become an author. Like most avid readers, Matthew believed he could write something pretty decent. Unlike the rest of us, he actually followed through on that, writing several novels before getting his first contract and agent. Matthew explains how advanced math education taught him critical thinking skills rather than just specific techniques, and how he uses those to outline and organize plots, track manuscript submissions and record his late night and midday inspirations. In his debut novel, the wife of a congressional staffer goes missing amidst a mass shooting, Run, both a stand alone and part of a trilogy, is the story of someone much like all EFMs, an everyday hero in extraordinary circumstances. His second book, Don't Look Down, is available for pre-order now.------Matthew Becker is a thriller author, with his debut novel RUN described as "a must read" and "wicked smart and exceptionally fun." He is a former mathematician, and worked as part of the national Covid-19 response. He has a doctorate in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park, and is published in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology.Matthew currently lives with his wife and their two children in Washington, DC, in between overseas assignments. An avid thriller reader, he loves stories with dense, twisted plots and emotional gravitas.Website: www.matthewbeckerbooks.comInstagram: @matthewbeckerbooksReviews and more on Goodreads

…where we talk about a paper studying: who and when we should vaccinate. After completing a DPhil in Statistics from the University of Oxford, focussing in epidemiology and phylogenetics, Matt now works as a data scientist for Italian football club Como 1907. Matt was awarded the Lee A. Segel Prize for Best Student Paper published in The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology: Asymptotic Analysis of Optimal Vaccination Policies. Join us to learn more about how this paper can help health professionals better assess the best way to distribute vaccines. Find out more about Matt and his work on Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/matthew-penn-732551232/ Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Cyndi Edwards and Colin Trethewey, Former Ottawa Residents and Broadcasters who are living Florida join guest host Robin Gill to discuss the damage their properties suffered from Hurricane Milton and what the experience was like to endure that storm.  On todays show:  Mark Robinson, meteorologist  and storm chaser for the Weather Network joins guest host Robin Gill to discuss the levels of destruction caused by Hurricane Milton.   Aaron Blake, Senior Political Reporter with The Washington Post joins guest host Robin Gill to give a snapshot of the U.S presidential race is shaping up just a month shy of the election. Jesse Heffring, Director of Development, Summit School joins guest host Robin Gill to discuss the Summit School, which celebrated 60 years of helping students who have a wide array of diagnoses - autism, down syndrome and other developmental disorders. The Daily Debrief Panel with Rachel Aiello, Marieke Walsh, and Robert Benzie.  Anita Layton, Professor of applied mathematics and Canada 150 Research Chair in Mathematical Biology and Medicine at Waterloo joins guest host Robin Gill to discuss a study she led examining how men and women should adhere to different diets.  

…where we talk parasites, motorbikes, and digital twins. Professor Reinhard Laubenbacher is: the Director of Laboratory for Systems Medicine at the University of Florida, an AAAS fellow (American Association for the Advancement of Science), and a scientist interested in using math to understand human disease and more specifically fungal infections in the lungs. When not at work, Reinhard and his wife enjoy motorbiking everywhere from the swamps of Florida, to the plains of Patagonia. Find out more about Reinhard's work on the following websites: https://systemsmedicine.pulmonary.medicine.ufl.edu/ https://systemsmedicine.pulmonary.medicine.ufl.edu/profile/laubenbacher-reinhard/ Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

…where we talk about infectious diseases, mentorship and mathematical tattoos. Professor Stacey Smith? is an infectious disease modeler who appreciates the real world impacts that math biology can have. She leads educational and mentorship programming at the SMB and apparently never says no to anything SMB related. We caught Stacey at SMB 2024 in South Korea to talk about her research, life-changing transitions, and being a Whovian. Check out Stacey's website for science, articles and Sci-Fi nerdiness: mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/ And for those curious about the tattoo, read more about the Mandlebrot set: wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandelbrot_set Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Jenea and Melyssa discuss Dr. Finley's journey into professorship as a computational researcher/mathematical biologist. --Dr. Stacey Finley is Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Quantitative & Computational Biology, at the University of Southern California and the inaugural holder of the Nichole A. and Thuan Q. Pham Professorship. Dr. Finley received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Florida A & M University and obtained her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University. She completed postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Finley joined the faculty at USC in 2013, and she leads the Computational Systems Biology Laboratory. Dr. Finley has a joint appointment in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, and she is a member of the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Finley is also a standing member of the MABS Study Section at NIH. Her research has been supported by grants from the NSF, NIH, and American Cancer Society.Selected honors. 2016 NSF Faculty Early CAREER Award; 2016 Young Innovator by the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering journal; Leah Edelstein-Keshet Prize from the Society of Mathematical Biology; Junior Research Award from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering; the Hanna Reisler Mentorship Award; 2018 AACR NextGen Star; 2018 Orange County Engineering Council Outstanding Young Engineer; 2021 Elected Fellow of American Institute for Biological and Medical Engineering; 2022 Elected Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering SocietyLab website: https://csbl.usc.edu/ Lab Twitter: https://twitter.com/USCSysBio_LabFollow Dr. Finley's student, Diamond Mangrum, on Instagram (author of the paper referenced by Ijeoma in the episode): https://www.instagram.com/melanated.phd/?hl=en . She aims to demystify the Ph.D. process!------The CompBio Cafe Podcast is brewing up fresh perspectives in the CompBio world. Hosts Jenea Adams and Melyssa Minto, PhD are two trained computational biologists who serve the Black Women in Computational Biology Network (BWCB).Learn more about us at linktr.ee/bwcb.Subscribe to CompBio Cafe wherever you get your podcasts, and leave us a review once you've listened to a few episodes.

…where we talk all things math bio at the annual meeting. Science isn't complete until it's communicated, and what better place to do this than a scientific conference. This year, more than a thousand scientists were lucky enough to attend the SMB meeting in Seoul in Korea. This special episode gives a brief preview of some of the exciting research being done, as well as the people doing the work. Join us to hear from: Fred Adler - Professor at the University of Utah, Utah, US Kit Gallagher - Doctoral student at the University of Oxford, US & Moffitt Cancer Center, Florida, US Megan Greischer - Assistant Professor at Cornell University, New York, US Jona Kayser - Group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Medicine, Erlangen, Germany Bo-Moon Kim - Doctoral student at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Breanne Sparta - Postdoctoral Researcher at UCLA, Los Angeles, US Rossana Vermiglio - Full professor at the University of Udine, Udine, Italy. Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

…where we talk immune systems, zombies and being presidential. Jane Heffernan is a disease modeller. In her own words “My research aims to understand immunity development and maintenance in people, and in populations, after infection or vaccination. When I am not working, you can find me at soccer pitches or hockey arenas.” Jane's current research interests lie within mathematical immunology and the modelling of waning and boosting immunity. Her lab is interested in understanding characteristics of pathogens, individual hosts, and populations that allow for disease spread and to determine public health and medical intervention strategies that will be needed to contain or eradicate infectious disease Learn more about Jane on her Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Heffernan And the link to the Mathematical Modeling of Zombies: ​​https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2014/10/30/york-profs-investigate-the-mathematics-of-the-undead/ Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

…where we talk chemo brain, drug therapies, and a big meeting in Korea Yangjin Kim is a bio-mathematician developing and analyzing various types of mathematical models for cancer research. I am very interested in creating a multi-scale hybrid mathematical model and developing anti-cancer strategies. Yangjin's current research interests lie within: Tumor microenvironments Chemo brain Look up Yangjin's website to find out more about his background and work: https://sites.google.com/view/yangjinkim Learn about the SMB's annual meeting here: https://smb2024.org/ Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

…where we talk about radiation patterns, and life in grad school Rebecca Bekker did her BS in Pure & Applied Maths, and an MS in Applied Maths at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. In 2019 she moved to the US to pursue a PhD in Integrated Mathematical Oncology in the joint Moffitt / USF program. Outside of work she enjoys viewing and making art (including painting and linocut printmaking), and being in nature Rebecca's current research interests lie within: Mathematical Oncology Radiation therapy effects on immune cells Follow Rebecca on twitter to learn more about her and her research: https://twitter.com/rebecca_bekker Learn about the SMB's travel awards here: https://www.smb.org/annual-meeting-travel-awards/ Oh, and if you're desperate to hear the track we mention in the show: Kurt Darren - Kaptein (Span Die Seile) Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Intelligent life on our planet arrived relatively late on a geological timescale, but why did life take so long to evolve and how have major catastrophic events, such as meteorite impacts, shaped the evolution of complex life? In this episode, Elyse Airey, a biology undergraduate at Queen's College, speaks to Mike Bonsall, Professor of Mathematical Biology and Fellow at St. Peter's College, to learn more about the emergence of complex life on Earth and why life appears to be so rare in the observable universe. To learn more about OxPods, visit our website ⁠www.oxpods.co.uk⁠⁠, ⁠or follow us on socials ⁠@ox.pods. ⁠ OxPods is made possible through the support of our generous benefactors. Special thanks to: St Peter's College JCR, Jesus College JCR & Lady Margaret Hall JCR for supporting us in 2024.

…where we talk about the biomechanics of brain fluids, and going on sabbatical In his own words, Siv Sivaloganathan is: “a mathematician working on problems in the biomedical sciences. Apart from research and contemplating the meaning of life - life is punctuated by periods of exercise and eating (often jogging towards good cuisine!), always in search of the perfect balance between exercise and dessert!” His current research interests lie within: Biomechanics Mathematical modeling of hydrocephalus Mathematical Oncology Find out more about Siv on his website: https://uwaterloo.ca/applied-mathematics/sivabal-sivaloganathan Learn about the SMB's fellows here: https://smb.org/Society-for-Mathematical-Biology-Fellows Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

…where we talk about studying flow through pipes, and creating an SMB subgroup In his own words, Michael Watson is: “an applied mathematician who uses mathematical models to study disease, development and physiology at the cell and tissue-scale.” Outside science, Mike is happiest when listening to music, catching up on “the fitba”, and spending time with family. His current research focus is the growth and formation of atherosclerotic plaques which block arteries. Find out more about Mike on his website: https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/dr-michael-watson follow him on Twitter: @DrMikeGWatson Learn about the SMB's Cardiovascular Modeling subgroup: https://www.smb.org/Cardiovascular-Modeling And read the paper we discussed during the episode, on atherosclerotic plaque macrophages: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11538-023-01193-w Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

…where we talk about infectious diseases, human behavior and outreach in Africa In her own words, Folashade Agusto is: “a mathematician acting like a biologist growing hot peppers and vegetables to cover up”. Her research focuses on designing models to understand emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and ways to mitigate their risks to our health. Find out more about Fola, particularly her outreach, on her website: https://sites.google.com/site/agustofb/outreach-and-workshops and follow her on Twitter: @FolaAgusto. Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

…where we talk about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in mathematical Biology Dr. Stacey Finley is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Her research is in mathematical oncology - she builds models to study biochemical networks inside cells and interactions between cells. Prof. Zhilan Feng joined the Math Dept at Purdue University in 1996 and is currently a Program Director in the Math Biology program at NSF. She was elected a Fellow of the AMS in 2021. Zhilan enjoyed playing volleyball both in college and recreationally at Purdue. We hear from them about their research, and get some tips for other budding math biologists. As co-chairs of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Committee they are driving change as part of SMB's ongoing commitment to cultivating an inclusive and equitable society. Tune in to learn how! Find out more about Stacey and Zhilan on Wikipedia: wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Finley wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhilan_Feng and follow Stacey on Twitter: @USCSysBio_Lab. Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Dr. Kit Yates, senior lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and co-director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath, joins Jonathan to teach him ‘How To Expect The Unexpected: The Science of Making Predictions and the Art of Knowing When Not To'.

Author, lecturer and director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath Kit Yates (@Kit_Yates_Maths) joins us as we crunch the numbers on maths. Hugh deals with some dry potatoes, Will wonders who invented cards, and Michael tries to get support for one of his schemes.K9See Kit's new book herewww.quercusbooks.co.uk/titles/kit-yates/how-to-expect-the-unexpected/9781529408676/ And his first book herewww.quercusbooks.co.uk/titles/kit-yates/the-maths-of-life-and-death/9781787475403/Don't forget about our LIVE show on Saturday 4th November 2023 at the @CheerfulPodFest with special guests @RosieisaHolt and @Abandoman (12.30 at The Exhibit, Balham). info: http://linktr.ee/legitimatelikes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

…where we talk about a paper, studying: how cancer drugs work on cells in a layer vs. cells in a ball In her own words, Sara Hamis is: a mathematician who studies cancer. “My research focuses on understanding how the behavior of individual cells affects tumours as a whole. I am fuelled by grueling workouts, lady boss anthems, and terrible math puns.” Sara was awarded the Lee A Segel Prize for the Best Paper published in The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology: Targeting Cellular DNA Damage Responses in Cancer: An In Vitro-Calibrated Agent-Based Model Simulating Monolayer and Spheroid Treatment Responses to ATR-Inhibiting Drugs. Join us to learn more about the work in this paper describing models of DNA-damaging drug effects on cancer cells in a flat layer in a dish, and cancer cells in a sphere. Follow Sara on Twitter: @hamiscalculated Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

…where we talk about scientists publishing papers. In his own words, Mathew (Mat) Simpson is: A Professor of Applied Mathematics at Queensland University of Technology, Australia and an applied mathematician. “into progressive politics, and I am a lover of dogs and coffee.” Mat is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, the subject of this episode. So tune in to hear about the behind-the-scenes of scientific publishing. Find out more about Mat's work on his website, and follow him on Twitter: @profmjsimpson. Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

…where we talk about a paper studying: how to take your drugs on time. In his own words, Elijah (Eli) Counterman is: an undergraduate student at the University of Utah studying Applied Mathematics and Biochemistry. “I love all that Utah has to offer, from the red rocks in the south, to the pristine skiing 35 minutes from my driveway!” Eli was awarded the Lee A Segel Prize for Best Student Paper published in The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology: Designing Drug Regimens that Mitigate Nonadherence. Join us to learn more about how this paper can help us better understand what happens when patients miss drug doses. Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

…where we introduce a brand new podcast. The Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB) was founded in 1973 to promote the development and dissemination of research and education at the interface between the mathematical and biological sciences. It does so through its meetings, awards, and publications. The Society serves a diverse community of researchers and educators in academia, in industry, and government agencies throughout the world. But what is Mathematical Biology? Why does it need a society? And who are these researchers and educators going to meetings, winning awards and publishing papers? Current president Dr. Heiko Enderling points us in the right direction, but you'll have to listen in to: Biology in Numbers to learn more! Find out more about SMB on: The website: smb.org Twitter: @smb_mathbiology Facebook: @smb.org Linkedin: @smb_mathbiology The Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Alan Turing is well-known for his work on the Enigma code in World War II, and his theoretical work underpinning computer science. But he is less well-known for his pioneering work on one of the great challenges of biology – how do complex living organisms develop from tiny collections of cells?This lecture will discuss Turing's ground-breaking work in this area, showing how patterns like a leopard's spots or a zebra's stripes can occur in nature.A lecture by Sarah Hart recorded on 6 June 2023 at David Game College, London.The transcript and downloadable versions of the lecture are available from the Gresham College website: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/turing-biologyGresham College has offered free public lectures for over 400 years, thanks to the generosity of our supporters. There are currently over 2,500 lectures free to access. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation: https://gresham.ac.uk/support/Website:  https://gresham.ac.ukTwitter:  https://twitter.com/greshamcollegeFacebook: https://facebook.com/greshamcollegeInstagram: https://instagram.com/greshamcollegeSupport the show

In this podcast we are very happy to revist our 2017 interview with Julia Gog - Professor of Mathematical Biology and a very good friend of us here at plus.maths.org. Over the last two years we've been working closely with Gog and her colleagues at the JUNIPER modelling consortium, communicating their work on the mathematical front-line of the COVID-19 pandemic.   In this interview, first recorded to celebrate the addition of six portraits of Cambridge mathematicians to the Women of Mathematics photo exhibition, Gog told us about the buzz of mathematical research, and how maths can help you do good in the world. To find a transcript and video of this interview, meet the other female mathematicians, and find out more about the exhibition, see here. And you can read more about the work of Gog and her JUNIPER colleagues here.

This week, we couldn't be more thrilled to chat with James McCaw, Professor of Mathematical Biology in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. James studied physics before embarking on a research career in infectious diseases epidemiological modelling. One of his primary research interests over the past 15 years has been pandemic preparedness and response. Since January 2020, he has supported the Australian government's response to COVID-19 through membership of key national committees and leadership of a research program evaluating the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in Australia. We're so chuffed James was able to find the time to chat with us about communicating science during a pandemic. You can learn more about James here: https://twitter.com/j_mccaw https://www.science.org.au/covid19/experts/james-mccaw https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-mccaw-863b0b1/ https://theconversation.com/tired-of-lockdown-rules-our-analysis-shows-most-australians-have-curbed-mixing-and-helped-suppress-covid-168946 Transcript: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/46pe

Over the last two years we have done a lot of reporting on the maths of the COVID-19 pandemic. Behind the maths there are of course people — those mathematicians who make the epidemiological models that do (and sometimes do not do not) inform government policy, who are grappling with the unprecedented challenge of coming to grips with a live pandemic unfolding in front of their eyes. Our special podcast series, On the mathematical frontline, is about those people. It explores the maths they do, how they go about it, and the impact it has on their personal lives. The first person we spoke to for this series back in February 2021 was Julia Gog, Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Cambridge, participant of SAGE and member of the epidemic modelling group SPI-M. Gog is also a founding member of the JUNIPER modelling consortium we are collaborating with, and which you'll hear more about in the podcast. So what is it like working on the mathematical frontline? Find out more with Julia Gog!

How have scientists contributed to UK government decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic? What are the structures and mechanisms that have drawn science into the policy process? In today's episode we're exploring what the past two years have been like for the scientists involved in government and SPI-M, the experts providing the advice based on COVID modelling and epidemiology. In today's episode, host Dr Rob Doubleday is joined by Julia Gog, Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Cambridge, who has been heavily involved throughout the pandemic within SPI-M, the specialist advisory group on modelling pandemics which feeds into the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) process. Plus, Sir John Aston, Harding Professor of Statistics in Public Life, University of Cambridge. He was Chief Scientific Adviser in the Home Office from 2017-2020 and during the COVID pandemic was heavily involved in SAGE and advising the Secretary of State in the Home Office. As part of our series on science advice and government, we're looking ahead to the public inquiry into the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic this spring. We hope the episodes will highlight lessons on what worked well, how scientific advice has helped governments make difficult decisions, and how this process can be improved for the future. Season 5 is produced in partnership with the research project Expertise Under Pressure, Centre for the Humanities and Social Change at the University of Cambridge. CSaP: The Science & Policy Podcast is hosted by CSaP Executive Director Dr Rob Doubleday, and is edited and produced by CSaP Communications Coordinator Jessica Foster. Research for this series is supported by CSaP Policy Researcher Nick Cosstick. Podcast theme music by Transistor.fm. Learn how to start a podcast here. -- Resources relevant to this episode: Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling (SPI-M): https://bit.ly/35G8jgt Chief Scientific Advisors: https://bit.ly/3KzNPEY Scientific evidence supporting the government response to coronavirus (COVID-19): https://bit.ly/3JhBaq1 Sign up to our CSaP newsletter by clicking here.

Genetic Engineering and Society Center GES Colloquium - Tuesdays 12-1PM (via Zoom) NC State University | http://go.ncsu.edu/ges-colloquium GES Mediasite - See videos, full abstracts, speaker bios, and slides https://go.ncsu.edu/ges-mediasite Twitter - https://twitter.com/GESCenterNCSU The missing ecology in gene drive research Dr. Sumit Dhole, Research Scholar in Mathematical Biology, NC State LinkedIn | Google Scholar A discussion about some of the ecological aspects of population suppression using gene drives, and areas that need more research. Abstract Gene drives are rapidly emerging as a potential tool for controlling populations of disease vectors, invasive species and agricultural pests. The molecular research to create new and improved gene drives based on the CRISPR technology has progressed rapidly. While this research has been encouraging from the perspective of developing these tools, there remain large gaps in our understanding of how natural populations would respond to the release of gene drives. Dr. Dhole will discuss some of the ecological processes that will play an important role and that need more research in natural pest populations. Related links: Rajagopalan PK, Curtis CF, Brooks GD, Menon PK. The density dependence of larval mortality of Culex pipiens fatigans in an urban situation and prediction of its effects on genetic control operations. Indian J Med Res. 1977. North, A., Burt, A. & Godfray, H. Modelling the potential of genetic control of malaria mosquitoes at national scale. BMC Biol 17, 26 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-019-0645-5 James J Bull, Christopher H Remien, Stephen M Krone, Gene-drive-mediated extinction is thwarted by population structure and evolution of sib mating. Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, Volume 2019, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 66–81, https://doi.org/10.1093/emph/eoz014 Speaker Bio Dr. Sumit Dhole is an evolutionary ecologist who uses mathematical models to study how genes can spread through natural populations. For the past few years at NC State his focus has been on understanding how synthetic gene drives might behave if introduced into natural populations. While gene drives, which are highly invasive genetic constructs, may provide a solution for rapid and species-specific management of disease vectors and agricultural pests, a major concern is the potential of their unchecked spread to non-target populations. Through his work, Sumit tries to understand what factors and design features may allow synthetic gene drives to spread in safe, contained manners. GES Center - Integrating scientific knowledge & diverse public values in shaping the futures of biotechnology. Find out more at https://ges-center-lectures-ncsu.pinecast.co

Trachette L. Jackson earned her Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington under the direction of Professor James D. Murray, one of the founding leaders in the field of Mathematical Biology.   Ten years later, after postdoctoral positions at the IMA and Duke University, she was promoted to Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan.  Dr. Jackson is an award-winning teacher-scholar whose research in mathematical oncology has received international attention.  In 2003, she became the second African American woman to receive the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Research Award in Mathematics.  In 2005, Dr. Jackson received the James S. McDonnell 21st Century Scientist Award, and in 2008 Diverse Magazine honored her as one of the year's Emerging Scholars.  In 2010 she became the first woman to receive the Blackwell-Tapia Prize, which recognizes a mathematician who has contributed significantly to research and has served as a role model for mathematical scientists and students from underrepresented minority groups.  More recently, Dr. Jackson was voted into the inaugural class of Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Fellows, the 2021 class of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Fellows, and the inaugural class of Simon's Foundation Fellows, an honor featured in the NY Times. Dr. Jackson's research lies within the overarching field of mathematical biology, which can be characterized by the use of sophisticated mathematical, statistical, and computational modeling techniques to facilitate a deep understanding of biology for human benefit and the mitigation of human harm. Within Mathematical Biology, she specializes in Computational Cancer Research or Mathematical Oncology.  Mathematical and computational modeling approaches have been applied to every aspect of tumor growth from mutation acquisition and tumorigenesis to metastasis and treatment response.  Dr. Jackson's research focuses on developing mathematical methods to address critical questions associated with tumor progression and targeted therapeutics. Dr. Jackson has built her career on collaborative research and educational activities that cut across traditional disciplinary boundaries. She envisions that this type of research will eventually change the face of cancer research.Lynn Brandon is Executive Editor for Mathematics, based in London, celebrating two decades with Springer in 2022. She manages a small team of editors and several journals, mostly in applied and computational mathematics. Related Books and Journals and Springer homepage of the podcast: https://www.springer.com/gp/campaign/mathematics-podcasts  

In this episode of the Science of Selling STEM, I'll be welcoming Katie Williams, Ph.D. to the show. She is an applied mathematician and the Director of Business Development for Applied BioMath, a pharmaceutical and biotech service provider that builds systems pharmacology models to inform critical drug discovery and development decisions. Katie comes on to share her insights on the relation between science and sales, what problem solving within team environments should look like, women leadership in STEM, and effective lead generation. Katie also serves as the President-Elect of Women in Bio, an international non-profit organization promoting gender parity in the life sciences. She is passionate about mentoring and building connections so that we can all grow and advance professionally. She earned her bachelor's degree in Mathematical Biology from the University of Michigan and her doctorate in Applied Math from the University of Arizona with a dissertation titled "Anti-cancer treatment and the cell cycle: Cellular-level mathematical models."  She also interned with Takeda Pharmaceuticals in both the Clinical Pharmacology and Modeling & Simulation departments where she developed mathematical models to support teams in many stages of drug development. Katie has spent the last 10 years working at the intersection of mathematics, biomedical engineering, and medicine. She now applies this experience to align business and scientific objectives On Today's Episode of the Science of Selling STEM: How her interest in science and mathematics from a very young age led her to where she is now (01:43) Figuring out where mathematical modeling provides valuable solutions (04:40) How she has been able to marry her Ph.D. with her work as the director of business development (06:16) Making the market understand the problem that Applied Biomath solves (08:23) Her amazing work with Women in Bio (09:46) Having more women in STEM in leadership positions (13:50) The effectiveness of the lead management system she implemented (14:54) Connect with Katie Williams: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-williams-aa050182/ (Katie on LinkedIn) https://www.appliedbiomath.com/team/katie-williams-phd (Applied BioMath) Connect with Wesleyne Greer: https://transformedsales.com/ (Wesleyne's Website) https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesleynegreer/ (Wesleyne on LinkedIn) https://web.facebook.com/wesleynegreer (Wesleyne on Facebook) https://twitter.com/wesleynegreer (Wesleyne on Twitter) Rate, Review, Learn, and Share Thanks for tuning into The Science of Selling STEM! If you enjoyed this episode and want to learn even more about what it takes to transform your sales, don't forget to tune into our other episodes and share your favorite episodes on social media! Join The Science of Selling STEM community onhttps://www.facebook.com/WesleyneGreerCEO ( Facebook), https://twitter.com/WesleyneGreer (Twitter),https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesleynegreer/ ( LinkedIn) and https://www.transformedsales.com/ (visit my website) for even more content, information, and resources.

The gang busts out their best equations for Mathematical Biologist Dr. Kit Yates, who takes comedians Sophie Buddle (This Hour Has 22 Minutes), Nima Gholamipour (The Slowest Show), and Adam DiMarco (The Magicians, The Order) on a journey into why Tuxedo Cats are so freakin' well dressed.Dr. Kit Yates is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and co-director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath. His latest book, The Math of Life and Death: 7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives, is an equation-free look at how mathematics governs every aspect of the world around us.Get down and digital with us on the

TESLA,THE STOCK & EV STORIES“Hey SIRI, what’s Tesla’s stock price?”Tesla Tells California DMV that FSD Is Not Capable of Autonomous Drivinghttps://www.caranddriver.com/news/a35785277/tesla-fsd-california-self-driving/ Tesla’s Auto Pilot is in fact Full (by yourself) Driving featureThe key correspondence comes from December 28, 2020, between Tesla’s associate general counsel Eric C. Williams and California DMV’s chief of the autonomous vehicles branch, Miguel D. AcostaAn even bigger story… or a smaller story...All the coronavirus in the world could fit inside a Coke can, with plenty of room to sparehttps://theconversation.com/all-the-coronavirus-in-the-world-could-fit-inside-a-coke-can-with-plenty-of-room-to-spare-154226 Christian Yates, Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of BathAuthor of  The Maths of Life and DeathMy wife suggested it would be the size of an Olympic swimming poolthis is an approximation based on the most reasonable assumptionsrough estimates for peak viral loads range from 1 billion to 100 billion virus particles. Take a value in the middle, 10 billion. add up all the contributions to the viral load of each of the 3 million people who became infected on each of the previous days (assuming this 3 million rate is roughly constant) then there are roughly two hundred quadrillion (2x10¹⁷ or two hundred million billion) virus particles in the world at any one time.roughly the same as the number of grains of sand on the planet.remember that SARS-CoV-2 particles are extremely smalthe diameter range from 80 to 120 nanometresgives us a total volume of about 120 millilitres (ml)He considers close sphere packing, spheres take 26% more space when filling a spaceEven taking the upper end of the diameter estimate and accounting for the size of the spike proteins all the SARS-CoV-2 still wouldn’t fill a Coke can.SPACE-X & AEROSPACEA quickie, science story. To a lot of folks science is too slowly progressing and boring, but here we have a giant leap seen from in a grain of rock from an asteroid pretty much everyone is unaware of! SCIENTISTS SHOCKED AT WATER AND ORGANIC MATERIAL FOUND ON ASTEROID FOR THE FIRST TIMEhttps://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/space/water-asteroid-hayabusa-mission-space-b1812285.htmlFinding could rewrite our understanding of how the Earth developedScientists have found water and organic matter on the surface of an Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/talkingtesla)

Over the last year we have done a lot of reporting on the maths of the COVID-19 pandemic. Behind the maths there are of course people — those mathematicians who make the epidemiological models that do (and sometimes do not do not) inform government policy, who are grappling with the unprecedented challenge of coming to grips with a live pandemic unfolding in front of their eyes. Our new podcast series, called "On the mathematical frontline", is about those people. It explores the maths they do, how they go about it, and the impact it has on their personal lives. The first person we speak to in this new series is Julia Gog, Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Cambridge, participant of SAGE and member of the epidemic modelling group SPI-M. Gog is also a founding member of the JUNIPER modelling consortium we are collaborating with, and which you'll hear more about in the podcast. So what is it like working on the mathematical frontline? Find out more with Julia Gog! The podcast is part of our collaboration with JUNIPER (https://maths.org/juniper/), the Joint UNIversity Pandemic and Epidemic Response modelling consortium. JUNIPER comprises academics from the universities of Cambridge, Warwick, Bristol, Exeter, Oxford, Manchester, and Lancaster, who are using a range of mathematical and statistical techniques to address pressing questions about the control of COVID-19. You can see more content produced with JUNIPER here: https://plus.maths.org/content/juniper

Tune in to hear Olly and Niamh chat with Dr Shane Richards about the most exciting crossover in history: mathematical biology! Dr Shane Richards is a senior lecturer at the University of Tasmania and helps us explore how scientists can create statistical models of animal behaviour using data they are able to collect in order to predict patterns of the natural world around us. It’s impossible to know everything, but mathematical biology can sure help us fill in a lot of the gaps.Show theme music: Kevin MacLeodHost: Niamh Chapman (@nchapmanTAS) & Olly Dove (@littledove440)Production: Meredith Castles (@meredithcastles) & Olly Dove (@littledove440)Media & Promotion: Olivia Holloway (@LivHolloway_) & Kate Johnson (@KatePlantPhys)

James McCaw, Professor of Mathematical Biology and Infectious Diseases Epidemiologist at Melbourne University, explained what the test result means. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's show we talk with the Style Duo-Mindy and Paula. Mindy and Paula have a full service, personal shopping and styling company. Through their 20+ years in the fashion industry, they have dressed and styled A-list celebrities as well as appeared on numerous TV shows including Bravo's Pregnant in Heels as well as appearing on the Today Show on NBC. To keep up with all that they are up to, check out their website at: www.thestyleduo.com and on IG at @thestyleduo Up next is Kit Yates. He's the author of the smash Hit book 'The Math of Life & Death-7 Mathematical Principles That Shape Our Lives'. This book helps to showcase how math is the beating heart of so much of modern life. Besides being an author and natural storyteller, Kit is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and co-director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath. To keep up with all the he's up to, check out his website at: www.kityates.com and on Twitter at Kit_Yates_Maths Wrapping up the show we speak with singer/songwriter Taki Gold. As a young child Taki, with the help of several women, was able to survive and escape the Liberian Civil War and join his family in the United States. It is here where he honed his musical skills. Out now is his HIT Smash debut single 'Liberian Boy' and dropping July 24th is his album Girl God. This album plays homage to all women, especially those that helped him survive the Liberian Civil War. To keep up with all that he's up to, check out his website at: www.worldoftakigold.com and on IG at @worldoftakigold

It's one of the fastest growing areas of mathematics, and for good reason. Mathematical biology tackles problems involving things like genetics, diseases, epidemics, ecology, population growth and extinction. The list could go on and on. In this episode, we explore the field of mathematical biology as we chat with one of Australia's rising stars in the field, QUT Professor Matthew Simpson. The Random Sample is a podcast by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers. In this show, we share stories about mathematics, statistics and the people involved. To learn more about ACEMS, visit https://acems.org.au.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As the lockdown eases and some children, in preschool and primary years, start heading back to school, what impact will this have on the pandemic, how will we know and is there anything we can do about it? Marnie Chesterton talks to Professor of Mathematical Biology at Cambridge University, Julia Gog, who co-chaired the group that advised the government on the impact of easing school closures. She explains why the limited opening of schools provides a golden opportunity to learn about its impact on the pandemic, and inform what happens in September when the new school year begins. Marnie also talks to Tim Spector, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology at King’s College London, to find out what parents can do to help control the spread of the virus in their communities. He runs the COVID Symptom Study, a huge citizen science project that’s pinpointing the symptoms most closely associated with Covid-19. Millions of British adults have downloaded the app, to take part in the study, logging how they feel each day and adding symptoms when they feel unwell. The breakthrough that losing your sense of smell, or anosmia, is a common symptom in Covid-19, arose from this app. While children with Covid-19 tend to have mild or no symptoms, Tim Spector believes that some cases are being missed because many of the symptoms we’re told to look out for in adults, such as fever, are transient or absent in children. Tim explains which symptoms parents should look out for in children, including anosmia and a range of rashes such as ‘covid toe’. If parents log their children’s symptoms each day, the hope is he’ll have enough data to further refine the symptoms most closely associated with Covid-19 in children. Parents will then be better placed to spot them, if they occur, and keep their children at home. You might be forgiven for thinking that Ordnance Survey (OS), the national mapping agency for Great Britain, would be having a quiet time during the lockdown. But its online OS Map apps have seen a 300% increase in use, with users not only checking out new places and walks in their local area, but using the virtual maps to plan and imagine themselves on walks in more remote and far flung parts of Great Britain. But Ordnance Survey is so much more than just leisure maps. It runs the Master Map of Great Britain, a massive, interactive, geospatial database which can be interrogated by anyone in the public sector with questions on geography, planning, logistics, addresses and more. The list is long. And during the coronavirus pandemic, the Mapping for Emergencies service has been busy helping the NHS find places for blood testing facilities and PPE storage; working out which walkways are wide enough to allow social distancing, working out where the nearest pharmacies to vulnerable people are and much more. Presenter - Marnie Chesterton Producers - Beth Eastwood and Fiona Roberts

This week, we have a guest on the show - Kit Yates, who is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and co-director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath, and who's written an excellent book "The Maths of Life and Death" on various applications of maths in biology, from epidemics to exponential growth. He's been interviewed extensively in the media lately to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, and we talked about that and the rest of his work, as well as the book, in this interview.  Remember you can find Kit's work at kityates.com and you can find us as physicspodcast.com, contact form, twitter, patreon, tell others, rate and review, etc.

Earlier this month, Neil Ferguson, Professor of Mathematical Biology at Imperial College London, stepped down from this position as Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. If the name: Neil Ferguson doesn't ring a bell, it should. You see Professor Ferguson is the chap who created the mathematical model, upon which all of the Politicians in the Western World have based their policies of self quarantine and economic lock down.

Earlier this month, Neil Ferguson, Professor of Mathematical Biology at Imperial College London, stepped down from this position as Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. If the name: Neil Ferguson doesn't ring a bell, it should. You see Professor Ferguson is the chap who created the mathematical model, upon which all of the Politicians in the Western World have based their policies of self quarantine and economic lock down.

Earlier this month, Neil Ferguson, Professor of Mathematical Biology at Imperial College London, stepped down from this position as Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. If the name: Neil Ferguson doesn't ring a bell, it should. You see Professor Ferguson is the chap who created the mathematical model, upon which all of the Politicians in the Western World have based their policies of self quarantine and economic lock down.

Earlier this month, Neil Ferguson, Professor of Mathematical Biology at Imperial College London, stepped down from this position as Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. If the name: Neil Ferguson doesn't ring a bell, it should. You see Professor Ferguson is the chap who created the mathematical model, upon which all of the Politicians in the Western World have based their policies of self quarantine and economic lock down.

Earlier this month, Neil Ferguson, Professor of Mathematical Biology at Imperial College London, stepped down from this position as Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. If the name: Neil Ferguson doesn't ring a bell, it should. You see Professor Ferguson is the chap who created the mathematical model, upon which all of the Politicians in the Western World have based their policies of self quarantine and economic lock down.

Earlier this month, Neil Ferguson, Professor of Mathematical Biology at Imperial College London, stepped down from this position as Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. If the name: Neil Ferguson doesn't ring a bell, it should. You see Professor Ferguson is the chap who created the mathematical model, upon which all of the Politicians in the Western World have based their policies of self quarantine and economic lock down.

Earlier this month, Neil Ferguson, Professor of Mathematical Biology at Imperial College London, stepped down from this position as Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. If the name: Neil Ferguson doesn't ring a bell, it should. You see Professor Ferguson is the chap who created the mathematical model, upon which all of the Politicians in the Western World have based their policies of self quarantine and economic lock down.

Earlier this month, Neil Ferguson, Professor of Mathematical Biology at Imperial College London, stepped down from this position as Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. If the name: Neil Ferguson doesn't ring a bell, it should. You see Professor Ferguson is the chap who created the mathematical model, upon which all of the Politicians in the Western World have based their policies of self quarantine and economic lock down.

Earlier this month, Neil Ferguson, Professor of Mathematical Biology at Imperial College London, stepped down from this position as Head of the Department of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases. If the name: Neil Ferguson doesn't ring a bell, it should. You see Professor Ferguson is the chap who created the mathematical model, upon which all of the Politicians in the Western World have based their policies of self quarantine and economic lock down.

Maths is an unloved subject. It's a commonplace view that maths is hard, that maths is abstract and removed from everyday concerns. Why do you think that is?In today's society, mathematics underpins almost everything we do. It is vital to the ways in which we communicate with each other and the methods we use to navigate from place to place. It has completely altered how we buy and sell and it has revolutionised the manner in which we work and relax. Its influence can be felt in almost every courtroom and every hospital ward, in every office and every home. Maths might even explain why time seems to speed up as we get older.Kit Yates is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mathematical Sciences and co-director of the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath. He completed his PhD in mathematics at the University of Oxford in 2011. His research demonstrates that mathematics can be used to describe all sorts of real-world phenomena: from embryo formation to locust swarming and from sleeping sickness to egg-shell patterning. In this episodes we go through 7 mathematical principles of life: 1. Thinking Exponentially2. Sensitivity, Specificity, and Second Opinions3. The Laws of Mathematics4. Don't Believe the Truth5.Wrong Place, Wrong Time6. Relentless Optimization Find Kit here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/Kit_Yates_MathsWebsite: https://t.co/XV6C9HybYE?amp=1

Marnie Chesterton reveals how important the models and graphs are in informing government strategies for the Covid-19 pandemic. Christl Donnelly, Professor of Statistical Epidemiology at Imperial College London and Professor of Applied Statistics at the University of Oxford, and Dr Kit Yates, Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology at the University of Bath and author of 'The Maths of Life and Death', explain what epidemiological models can and can’t tell us about the progression of the disease, infection rates and death rates, and how testing will provide the essential data to make these models more accurate. They also give their take on the current inundation of social media with graphs and infographics created by non-epidemiologists - the ‘epidemic of armchair epidemiologists’. The European Space Agency’s Diego Urbina was one of the Mars500 participants. He spent 520 days in a human mission to Mars, shut up in a fake spacecraft with his fellow astronauts. So who better to get tips for home isolation from? Are you stuck in with the kids and want to try some science experiments that you can do at home? The Royal Institution is about to launch ExpeRimental Live - a live stream of home science experiments, designed to educate, entertain and inform your children with some cheap and easy science. And its existing ExpeRimental series of short films for parents are already available online. They were produced and directed by science teacher and writer Alom Shaha, who helps BBC Inside Science producer Jennifer Whyntie to have a go at making singing wine glasses with her children. Producers - Fiona Roberts and Jennifer Whyntie

On this episode of PSPod, Drs. Piet van der Graaf and Suruchi Bakshi from Certara QSP and Leiden University, and Dr. Chao Chen from Clinical Pharmacology Modelling & Simulation at  GlaxoSmithKline, discuss quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) modeling in relation to the study of Parkinson’s disease. This discussion is based on a Review article that published in the February 2019 issue of PSP, which is available here.

On this episode of PSPod, Drs. Piet van der Graaf and Suruchi Bakshi from Certara QSP and Leiden University, and Dr. Chao Chen from Clinical Pharmacology Modelling & Simulation at  GlaxoSmithKline, discuss quantitative systems pharmacology (QSP) modeling in relation to the study of Parkinson’s disease. This discussion is based on a Review article that published in the February 2019 issue of PSP, which is available here.

In March 2018 Gudrun visited University College London and recorded three conversations with mathematicians working there. Her first partner was Karen Page. She works in Mathematical Biology and is interested in mathematical models for pattern formation. An example would be the question why (and how) a human embryo develops five fingers on each hand. The basic information for that is coded into the DNA but how the pattern develops over time is a very complicated process which we understand only partly. Another example is the patterning of neurons within the vertebrate nervous system. The neurons are specified by levels of proteins. Binding of other proteins at the enhancer region of DNA decides whether a gene produces protein or not. This type of work needs a strong collaboration with biologists who observe certain behaviours and do experiments. Ideally they are interested in the mathematical tools as well. One focus of Karen's work is the development of the nervous system in its embryonic form as the neural tube. She models it with the help of dynamical systems. At the moment they contain three ordinary differential equations for the temporal changes in levels of three proteins. Since they influence each other the system is coupled. Moreover a fourth protein enters the system as an external parameter. It is called sonic hedgehog (Shh). It plays a key role in regulating the growth of digits on limbs and organization of the brain. It has different effects on the cells of the developing embryo depending on its concentration. Concerning the mathematical theory the Poincaré Bendixson theorem completely characterizes the long-time behaviour of two-dimensional dynamical systems. Working with three equations there is room for more interesting long-term scenarios. For example it is possible to observe chaotic behaviour. Karen was introduced to questions of Mathematical Biology when starting to work on her DPhil. Her topic was Turing patterns. These are possible solutions to systems of Partial differential equations that are thermodynamically non-equilibrium. They develop from random perturbations about a homogeneous state, with the help of an input of energy. Prof. Page studied mathematics and physics in Cambridge and did her DPhil in Oxford in 1999. After that she spent two years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and has been working at UCL since 2001. References A. Turing: The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B. 237 (641): 37–72.1952 J.D. Murray: Mathematical Biology. Springer Science & Business Media, 2013. ISBN 978-3-662-08539-4 M. Cohen, K.M. Page e.a: A theoretical framework for the regulation of Shh morphogen-controlled gene expression. Development, 141(20), 3868-3878, 2014. N. Balaskas e.a.: Gene regulatory logic for reading the Sonic Hedgehog signaling gradient in the vertebrate neural tube. Cell. 148, 273-284, 2012. J. Panovska-Griffiths e.a.: A gene regulatory motif that generates oscillatory or multiway switch outputs. J. Roy. Soc. Interface. 10.79, 2013. Podcasts L. Adlung: Systembiologie, Gespräch mit G. Thäter und S. Ritterbusch im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 39, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2016. Omega Tau-Podcast 069: Grundlagen der Zellbiologie Omega Tau-Podcast 072: Forschung in der Zellbiologie Konscience-Podcast 024, Kapitel 5: Das Hochlandgen aus "Wie kam das bloß durch die Ethikkommission?"

In March 2018 Gudrun visited University College London and recorded three conversations with mathematicians working there. Her first partner was Karen Page. She works in Mathematical Biology and is interested in mathematical models for pattern formation. An example would be the question why (and how) a human embryo develops five fingers on each hand. The basic information for that is coded into the DNA but how the pattern develops over time is a very complicated process which we understand only partly. Another example is the patterning of neurons within the vertebrate nervous system. The neurons are specified by levels of proteins. Binding of other proteins at the enhancer region of DNA decides whether a gene produces protein or not. This type of work needs a strong collaboration with biologists who observe certain behaviours and do experiments. Ideally they are interested in the mathematical tools as well. One focus of Karen's work is the development of the nervous system in its embryonic form as the neural tube. She models it with the help of dynamical systems. At the moment they contain three ordinary differential equations for the temporal changes in levels of three proteins. Since they influence each other the system is coupled. Moreover a fourth protein enters the system as an external parameter. It is called sonic hedgehog (Shh). It plays a key role in regulating the growth of digits on limbs and organization of the brain. It has different effects on the cells of the developing embryo depending on its concentration. Concerning the mathematical theory the Poincaré Bendixson theorem completely characterizes the long-time behaviour of two-dimensional dynamical systems. Working with three equations there is room for more interesting long-term scenarios. For example it is possible to observe chaotic behaviour. Karen was introduced to questions of Mathematical Biology when starting to work on her DPhil. Her topic was Turing patterns. These are possible solutions to systems of Partial differential equations that are thermodynamically non-equilibrium. They develop from random perturbations about a homogeneous state, with the help of an input of energy. Prof. Page studied mathematics and physics in Cambridge and did her DPhil in Oxford in 1999. After that she spent two years at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and has been working at UCL since 2001. References A. Turing: The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B. 237 (641): 37–72.1952 J.D. Murray: Mathematical Biology. Springer Science & Business Media, 2013. ISBN 978-3-662-08539-4 M. Cohen, K.M. Page e.a: A theoretical framework for the regulation of Shh morphogen-controlled gene expression. Development, 141(20), 3868-3878, 2014. N. Balaskas e.a.: Gene regulatory logic for reading the Sonic Hedgehog signaling gradient in the vertebrate neural tube. Cell. 148, 273-284, 2012. J. Panovska-Griffiths e.a.: A gene regulatory motif that generates oscillatory or multiway switch outputs. J. Roy. Soc. Interface. 10.79, 2013. Podcasts L. Adlung: Systembiologie, Gespräch mit G. Thäter und S. Ritterbusch im Modellansatz Podcast, Folge 39, Fakultät für Mathematik, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), 2016. Omega Tau-Podcast 069: Grundlagen der Zellbiologie Omega Tau-Podcast 072: Forschung in der Zellbiologie Konscience-Podcast 024, Kapitel 5: Das Hochlandgen aus "Wie kam das bloß durch die Ethikkommission?"

Michael Bonsall explores how we can use mathematics to link between scales of organisation in biology, delving in to developmental biology, ecology and neurosciences. The lecture is illustrated and explored with real life examples, simple games and, of course, some neat maths. Michael Bonsall is Professor of Mathematical Biology in Oxford.

Can mathematics really help us in our fight against infectious disease? Join Julia Gog as we explore exciting current research areas where mathematics is being used to study pandemics, viruses and everything in between. Julia Gog is Professor of Mathematical Biology, University of Cambridge and David N Moore Fellow at Queens’ College, Cambridge.

Professor James D Murray, Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford and Senior Scholar, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, gives the annual Hooke Lecture. Understanding the generation and control of pattern and form is still a challenging and major problem in the biomedical sciences. I shall describe three very different problems. First I shall briefly describe the development and application of the mechanical theory of morphogenesis and the discovery of morphogenetic laws in limb development and how it was used to move evolution backwards. I shall then describe a surprisingly informative model, now used clinically, for quantifying the growth of brain tumours, enhancing imaging techniques and quantifying individual patient treatment protocols prior to their use. Among other things, it is used to estimate patient life expectancy and explain why some patients live longer than others with the same treatment protocols. Finally I shall describe an example from the social sciences which quantifies marital interaction that is used to predict marital stability and divorce. From a large study of newly married couples it had a 94 percent accuracy. I shall show how it has helped design a new scientific marital therapy which is currently used in clinical practice.

Professor James D Murray, Professor Emeritus of Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford and Senior Scholar, Applied and Computational Mathematics, Princeton University, gives the annual Hooke Lecture. Understanding the generation and control of pattern and form is still a challenging and major problem in the biomedical sciences. I shall describe three very different problems. First I shall briefly describe the development and application of the mechanical theory of morphogenesis and the discovery of morphogenetic laws in limb development and how it was used to move evolution backwards. I shall then describe a surprisingly informative model, now used clinically, for quantifying the growth of brain tumours, enhancing imaging techniques and quantifying individual patient treatment protocols prior to their use. Among other things, it is used to estimate patient life expectancy and explain why some patients live longer than others with the same treatment protocols. Finally I shall describe an example from the social sciences which quantifies marital interaction that is used to predict marital stability and divorce. From a large study of newly married couples it had a 94 percent accuracy. I shall show how it has helped design a new scientific marital therapy which is currently used in clinical practice.

Dr Sarah Waters (Fellow and Tutor in Applied Mathematics) gives a talk for the St Anne's College Maths reunion

Professor Christopher Gilligan; Chair, Cambridge University Strategic Initiative in Global Food Security; Professor of Mathematical Biology, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge

Professor Philip Maini works in the Centre for Mathematical Biology at the University of Oxford. Turing’s seminal paper “The chemical basis of morphogenesis”, published in 1952, proposed that pattern formation in early embryonic development was an emergent, or self-organising, phenomenon driven by diffusion. This ingeneous and highly counter-intuitive idea has formed the basis for an enormous number of subsequent studies from both experimental and theoretical viewpoints. Maini critiques the model, considers applications to skeletal patterns in the limb, animal coat markings, fish pigmentation and hair patterning, and describes how present-day research is still influenced by this paper. The Turing Research Symposium was organised by the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh School of Informatics in partnership with SICSA and supported by Cambridge University Press.

Talk given by Dov Stekel to the knowledge transfer series on Wednesday 19th October. The talk covers a brief history and introduction to mathematical modelling in the biosciences. The talk is aimed at a general (non-specialist) audience.

Slides from the talk 'An Introduction to Mathematical Modelling in Biology' given by Dov Stekel to the knowledge transfer series on Wednesday 19th October. The talk covers a brief history and introduction to mathematical modelling in the biosciences. The talk is aimed at a general (non-specialist) audience.

Dr. Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Regents' Professor and Joaqin Bustoz Jr. Professor of Mathematical Biology in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, speaks to the importance of passion and discipline in order to be a successful, productive, and engaged researcher.

Over the last year we have done a lot of reporting on the maths of the COVID-19 pandemic. Behind the maths there are of course people — those mathematicians who make the epidemiological models that do (and sometimes do not do not) inform government policy, who are grappling with the unprecedented challenge of coming to grips with a live pandemic unfolding in front of their eyes. Our new podcast series, called "On the mathematical frontline", is about those people. It explores the maths they do, how they go about it, and the impact it has on their personal lives.The first person we speak to in this new series is Julia Gog, Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Cambridge, participant of SAGE and member of the epidemic modelling group SPI-M. Gog is also a founding member of the JUNIPER modelling consortium we are collaborating with, and which you'll hear more about in the podcast.So what is it like working on the mathematical frontline? Find out more with Julia Gog!The podcast is part of our collaboration with JUNIPER (https://maths.org/juniper/), the Joint UNIversity Pandemic and Epidemic Response modelling consortium. JUNIPER comprises academics from the universities of Cambridge, Warwick, Bristol, Exeter, Oxford, Manchester, and Lancaster, who are using a range of mathematical and statistical techniques to address pressing questions about the control of COVID-19. You can see more content produced with JUNIPER here: https://plus.maths.org/content/juniper