Understanding the host-virus interaction in chronic HTLV-I infection with the help of mathematical modelling

In this post Aaron Lim, a DPhil student at the WCMB and the EEID, discusses his work on within-host mathematical modelling of host-virus interactions.

Taking randomness into account

In this post Dr. Ulrich Dobramysl, a Postdoctoral Research Assistant working at the WCMB, discusses stochastic modelling and randomness in biological systems.

21st Century Turing

In this post Dr Thomas Woolley describes one of the original, biggest and most outrageous ideas of mathematical biology. Thomas achieved his doctorate working on mathematical pattern formation within the WCMB in 2012, under the supervision of Prof. Philip Maini, Dr Ruth Baker and Dr Eamonn Gaffney. He is currently a Junior Research Fellow for St John’s College, Oxford and works on the solid mechanics behind cellular motion. However, he still likes to keep an eye on pattern formation. He runs his own mathematical outreach website as well as working as a mathematical consultant on the TV show “Dara O’Briain’s School of Hard Sums”. 

Poster: A simple model of wound healing in normal and diabetic mice

We will try and upload most posters that members of the WCMB present at conferences. The DTC 4th year conference is coming up, for which Lucie Bowden has prepared the poster below.

Mathematical modelling of oxygen transport in cardiac and skeletal muscle tissues

In this post Abdullah Al-Shammari describes the DPhil project he worked on at the WCMB during the last 4 years. This project was supervised by Dr Eamonn Gaffney in close collaboration with Prof Stuart Egginton, whose labs in Birmingham and Leeds kindly provided us with biological datasets and interpretation of our modelling results.