• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Fridays at 2 during term time
• Web Address: http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/
• Organising department: Mathematical Institute

Friday 3 May 2019

• 14:00 - Biomechanics can provide a new perspective on microbiology
  Professor Takuji Ishikawa (Tohoku University)

Friday 10 May 2019

• 14:00 - PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SEMINAR IS CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES
  TBA

Friday 17 May 2019

• 14:00 - Combining computational modelling, structural biology and immunology to understand Antigen processing
  Prof Tim Elliott (University of Southampton)

Friday 24 May 2019

• 14:00 - Models for genetic perturbation screens of cellular traits
  Dr Leopold Parts (Wellcome Sanger Institute)

Friday 31 May 2019

• 14:00 - Algorithmic generation of physiologically realistic patterns of fibrosis in the heart
  Professor Kevin Burrage (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane)

Friday 7 June 2019

• 14:00 - Mechanobiology of cell migration: mathematical modelling and microfluidics-based experiments go hand-in-hand
  Dr Jose Manuel Garcia Aznar (University of Zaragoza)

Friday 14 June 2019

• 14:00 - Reactions, diffusion and volume exclusion in a heterogeneous system of interacting particles
  Dr Maria Bruna (University of Oxford)

Friday 21 June 2019

• 14:00 - Personalised predictive modelling for transcatheter mitral valve replacement
  Dr Adelaide De Vecchi (King’s College London)

Friday 18 October 2019

• 14:00 - Cell polarity formation and the dynamics of small G proteins; or, why your Turing bifurcations should always be subcritical
  Alan Champneys (University of Bristol)

Friday 25 October 2019

• 14:00 - Embryogenesis: a cascade of dynamical systems
  Professor Stanislav Shavrtsman (Princeton University)

Friday 1 November 2019

• 14:00 - Nucleosomal Elasticity as a Novel Axis of Epigenetic Regulation
  Professor Garegin Papoian (University of Maryland)

Friday 8 November 2019

• 14:00 - An efficient approach to inverse sensitivity problems
  Professor Simon Tavener (Colorado State University)

Friday 15 November 2019

• 14:00 - Emergent spatial patterning in engineered bacteria
  Dr Neil Dalchau (Microsoft Research Cambridge)

Friday 22 November 2019

• 14:00 - Uncovering the mechanisms of mutagenesis: from dry lab to wet lab and back again
  Miss Marketa Tomkova (University of Oxford)

Friday 29 November 2019

• 14:00 - Fluid mediated mechanical effects in biology of single cells: Hydrodynamics in strategies for early stage biofilm formation and DNA damage during migration in cancer cells
  Dr Rachel Bennett (University of Bristol)

Friday 6 December 2019

• 14:00 - PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SEMINAR IS CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES
  TBA

Friday 24 January 2020

• 14:00 - Mathematical modelling as part of an HIV clinical trial in sub-Saharan Africa
  Dr Will Probert (University of Oxford)

Friday 31 January 2020

• 14:00 - PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SEMINAR IS CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES
  TBA

Friday 7 February 2020

• 14:00 - Systems biology for single cell RNA-Seq data
  Dr Tom Thorne (University of Reading)

Friday 14 February 2020

• 14:00 - Application of artificial neural networks to infer pharmacological molecular-level mechanisms of drug evoked clinical responses
  Dr Jonathan Wagg (Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development)

Friday 21 February 2020

• 14:00 - Tensors in biological data and algebraic statistics
  Dr Anna Seigal (University of Oxford)

Friday 28 February 2020

• 14:00 - Diffusion tensor cardiac magnetic resonance imaging to measure myocardial disarray in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
  Dr Rina Ariga (University of Oxford)

Friday 6 March 2020

• 14:00 - Multiscale modelling of cell fate specification
  Dr Adriana Dawes (The Ohio State University)

Friday 13 March 2020

• 14:00 - PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SEMINAR IS CANCELLED DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES
  TBA

Friday 1 May 2020

• 14:00 - PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WILL BE NO SEMINAR
  TBA

Friday 8 May 2020

• 14:00 - PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WILL BE NO SEMINAR
  TBA

Friday 15 May 2020

• 14:00 - To be announced
  TBA

Friday 22 May 2020

• 14:00 - To be announced
  TBA

Friday 29 May 2020

• 14:00 - The importance of size in immune recognition
  Prof Anton van der Merwe (Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford)

Friday 5 June 2020

• 14:00 - Teaching nonlinear dynamics to biologists
  Professor Alan Garfinkel (Newton-Abraham Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, 2019-2020, Professor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles)

Friday 12 June 2020

• 14:00 - Live-modelling the temporal regulation of mesoderm specification
  Dr Berta Verd (University of Cambridge)

Friday 19 June 2020

• 14:00 - Multi-scale modelling to predict strain in the femoral neck during level walking
  Dr Xinshan Li (University of Sheffield)

Friday 16 October 2020

• 14:00 - Stochastic modeling of reaction-diffusion processes in biology
  Prof Hye-Won Kang (University of Maryland)

Friday 23 October 2020

• 14:00 - MultiMAP: dimensionality reduction of multiple datasets by manifold approximation and projection
  Dr Sarah Teichmann (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute )

Friday 30 October 2020

• 14:00 - Harnessing experimentally-validated mathematical models to forecast influenza-mediated pathology
  Professor Amber Smith (Department of Pediatrics University of Tennessee Health Science Center)

Friday 6 November 2020

• 14:00 - Infection, inflammation, and intervention: mechanistic modelling of epithelial cells in COVID-19
  Various Speakers

Friday 13 November 2020

• 14:00 - Algebraic systems biology
  Heather Harrington (University of Oxford)

Friday 20 November 2020

• 14:00 - Digging genomes and structuromes: towards “ab initio” computational biology
  Prof Aleksandr Sahakya (University of Oxford)

Friday 27 November 2020

• 14:00 - Plant puzzle cell shape is an adaptation to a developmental constraint based on mechanical stress and isotropic growth
  Dr Richard Smith (John Innes Centre)

Friday 22 January 2021

• 14:00 - Paradigms for data-driven discovery and control in biological systems
  Professor Nathan Kutz (Dept of Applied Mathematics University of Washington)

Friday 29 January 2021

• 14:00 - Emergent robustness of bacterial quorum sensing in fluid flow
  Mohit Dalwadi (University of Oxford)

Friday 5 February 2021

• 14:00 - Evolutionary therapy
  Professor Alexander Andersonon (Moffitt Cancer Centre)

Friday 12 February 2021

• 14:00 - Geroprotectors, multimorbidity and frailty: why we need AI approaches in the quest to extend healthspan
  Professor Ilaria Bellantuono (The Medical School Sheffield)

Friday 19 February 2021

• 14:00 - Mathematical models of targeted cancer therapies
  Professor Dominik Wodarz (University of California Irvine)

Friday 26 February 2021

• 14:00 - PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES, THERE WILL BE NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK. PLEASE ACCEPT OUR APOLOGIES FOR THE INCONVENIENCE CAUSED.
  TBA

Friday 5 March 2021

• 14:00 - A mathematical model of reward-mediated learning in drug addiction
  Professor Maria D'Orsogna (Dept of Mathematics California State University Northridge)

Friday 12 March 2021

• 14:00 - Deep learning for molecular physics
  Dr Frank Noe (Freie Universitat, Berlin)

Friday 30 April 2021

• 14:00 - Oscillatory timeseries data sheds light on mechanisms underlying circadian timekeeping
  Professor Jae Kyoung Kim (KAIST)

Friday 7 May 2021

• 14:00 - Phase separation in active Brownian particles
  Dr Maria Bruna (University of Cambridge)

Friday 28 May 2021

• 14:00 - Local and global diffusion maps and the sampling of biomolecular systems
  Professor Benedict Leimkuhler (School of Mathematical Sciences University of Edinburgh)

Friday 4 June 2021

• 14:00 - Machine learning and the protein folding problem
  Professor David Jones (Dept of Computer Science UCL)

Friday 11 June 2021

• 14:00 - Control and optimization of Natural Killer Cell activation using mathematical models
  Professor Stacey Finley (Department of Computer Science The University of Sheffield)

Friday 18 June 2021

• 14:00 - Analysis of temporal event sequences: challenges and opportunities in healthcare
  Dr Maria-Cruz Uriol (Department of Computer Science The University of Sheffiled)

Friday 15 October 2021

• 14:00 - Modeling and topological data analysis for biological ring channels
  Prof Veronica Ciocanel (Duke University)

Friday 22 October 2021

• 14:00 - Programmable genome regulation for studying quantitative genomics and developing high-precision therapy
  Prof Stanley Qi (Stanford University)

Friday 29 October 2021

• 14:00 - Design and control of biochemical reaction networks
  Dr Tomislav Plesa (Imperial College London)

Friday 5 November 2021

• 14:00 - Ensuring chemical safety using maths not rats
  Dr Andrew Worth (European Commission)

Friday 12 November 2021

• 14:00 - Tools and approaches to build and analyze multiscale computational models in biology -TB as a case study
  Prof Denise Kirschner (University of Michigan Medical School)

Friday 19 November 2021

• 14:00 - Predicting atrial fbrillation treatment outcomes through mathematical modelling, signal processing and machine learning
  Dr Caroline Roney (Kings’ College London)

Friday 26 November 2021

• 14:00 - New insights into cancer metastasis and evolution from combined experimental, clinical, and modelling analysis
  Dr Erik Sahai (The Francis Crick Institute)

Friday 3 December 2021

• 14:00 - When cardiac imaging meets computational modeling
  Dr Vicky Wang (Stanford University)

Friday 21 January 2022

• 14:00 - A mechanochemical instability drives vertebrate gastrulation
  Prof Mattia Serra (University of California, San Diego)

Friday 28 January 2022

• 14:00 - Multiscaling the CRISPR-cas revolution from gene editing to viral detection
  Prof Giulia Palermo (Department of Bioengineering University of California Riverside)

Friday 4 February 2022

• 14:00 - A unifying theory of branching morphogenesis
  Prof Ben Simons (University of Cambridge)

Friday 11 February 2022

• 14:00 - Data science topics related to neurogenomics
  Prof Mark Gerstein (Yale University)

Friday 18 February 2022

• 14:00 - Cells in tissue can communicate long-range via diffusive signals
  Prof Jun Allard (UCI)

Friday 25 February 2022

• 14:00 - Navigating through a noisy world
  Prof Kevin Painter (Politecnico di Torino)

Friday 4 March 2022

• 14:00 - Do we understand Fibonacci numbers in plants?
  Dr Jonathan Swinton (Swinton.Net)

Friday 11 March 2022

• 14:00 - Examples of artificial intelligence uses in target identification and drug discovery
  Dr Ramneek Gupta (University of Oxford)

Friday 29 April 2022

• 14:00 - Spreading mechanics and differentiation of astrocytes during retinal development
  Prof Tracy Stepien (University of Florida)

Friday 6 May 2022

• 14:00 - Intrinsic instability of the dysbiotic microbiome revealed through dynamical systems inference at ecosystem-scale
  Prof Travis Gibson (Harvard Medical School)

Friday 13 May 2022

• 14:00 - Integrative analytics connecting genotype and phenotype for precision oncology
  Dr Ian Overton (Queens University Belfast)

Friday 20 May 2022

• 14:00 - Causal inference, big data and public health: estimating effectiveness and quantifying waning effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines
  Prof Jonathan Sterne (University of Bristol)

Friday 3 June 2022

• 14:00 - PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE IS NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
  TBA

Friday 10 June 2022

• 14:00 - Systems-mechanobiology of health and disease
  Dr Fabian Spill (University of Birmingham)

Friday 17 June 2022

• 14:00 - Data-driven early detection of potential high risk SARS-CoV-2 variants
  Dr Marcin J. Skwark (InstaDeep)

Friday 14 October 2022

• 14:00 - Stochastic dynamics of cell fate decisions and the gene regulatory networks that underlie them
  Prof Adam MacLean (USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences University of Southern California)

Friday 21 October 2022

• 14:00 - Systematic elucidation of genetic mechanisms underlying cholesterol uptake
  Prof Richard Sherwood (Harvard Medical School)

Friday 28 October 2022

• 14:00 - Emergent digital biocomputation through spatial diffusion and engineered bacteria
  Prof Chris Barnes (UCL)

Friday 4 November 2022

• 14:00 - A multiscale model of complex endothelial cell dynamics in early angiogenesis
  Prof Tomas Alarcon (Centre de Recerca Matematica (Centre for Mathematical Research, Barcelona)

Friday 11 November 2022

• 14:00 - Identifying cell-to-cell variability using mathematical and statistical modelling
  Dr Alex Browning (Dept of Mathematics, University of Oxford)

Friday 18 November 2022

• 14:00 - Beyond DNA damage
  Prof Hooshang Nikjoo (Department of Physiology Anatomy & Genetics, University of Oxford)

Friday 25 November 2022

• 14:00 - PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS SEMINAR IS CANCELLED AND WILL BE RE-SCHEDULED FOR NEXT TERM
  TBA

Friday 2 December 2022

• 14:00 - Understanding differential cell dynamics during collective migration using integrated simulations and experiments
  Prof Katie Bentley (The Francis Crick Institute)

Friday 20 January 2023

• 14:00 - The inevitable emergence of density-dependent diffusion in expanding phage populations
  Dr Diana Fusco (Dept of Physics, University of Cambridge)

Friday 27 January 2023

• 14:00 - Digital twin models for the precision diagnosis and therapy of cancer
  Prof Walter Kolch (School of Medicine, University College Dublin)

Friday 3 February 2023

• 14:00 - Challenges in modeling the transmission dynamics of childhood diseases
  Prof Felicia Magpantay (Dept of Math and Stats Queen’s University Kingston)

Friday 10 February 2023

• 14:00 - Inference of stem cell and tissue dynamics in development and regeneration
  Dr Linus Schumacher (University of Edinburgh)

Friday 17 February 2023

• 14:00 - Understanding Turing patterns in heterogeneous reaction-diffusion systems
  Prof Robert A. Van Gorder (Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Otago)

Friday 24 February 2023

• 14:00 - Decoding nanopore signals
  Prof David Page (Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc)

Friday 3 March 2023

• 14:00 - An agent-based model of the tumour microenvironment
  Dr Cicely Macnamara (School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Glasgow)

Friday 10 March 2023

• 14:00 - CRISPR-based decoding of disease-associated genomic variants
  Prof Richard Sherwood (Harvard Medical School)

Friday 28 April 2023

• 14:00 - Stochastic modeling of neurotransmission dynamics
  Dr Stefanie Winkelmann (Zuse Institute Berlin)

Friday 5 May 2023

• 14:00 - Data-driven protein design and molecular latent space simulators
  Prof Andrew Ferguson (University of Chicago)

Friday 19 May 2023

• 14:00 - Mapping and navigating biology and chemistry with genome-scale imaging
  Dr Imran Haque (Recursion Pharmaceuticals)

Friday 2 June 2023

• 14:00 - Symbolic regression for explainable predictions in medicine: From patient stratification to antibody development
  Dr Samuel Demharter (Genmab)

Friday 9 June 2023

• 14:00 - Recent and past results on stochastically-modelled biochemical reaction networks
  Professor Jinsu Kim (POSTECH)

Friday 16 June 2023

• 14:00 - Positional information theory
  Prof Karen Page (University College London)

Friday 13 October 2023

• 14:00 - Agent-based, vertex-based, and continuum modeling of cell behavior in biological patterns
  Prof Alexandria Volkening (Department of Mathematics Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering)

Friday 20 October 2023

• 15:00 - Machine learning for identifying translatable biomarkers and targets
  Professor Daphne Koller (Department of Computer Science Stanford University)

Friday 27 October 2023

• 14:00 - Mathematical modelling throughout infectious disease outbreaks
  Dr Robin Thompson (Mathematic Institute)

Friday 3 November 2023

• 14:00 - Leader, follower, and cheater in collective cancer invasion
  Professor Yi Jiang (College of Arts and Science Georgia State University)

Friday 10 November 2023

• 14:00 - Mathematical modelling identifies serum hepatitis B RNA as an informative biomarker of anti-viral treatment efficacy
  Dr Tyler Cassidy (School of Mathematics University of Leeds)

Friday 17 November 2023

• 14:00 - The generalist medical AI will see you now
  Professor Pranav Rajpurkar (Department of Biomedical Informatics Harvard Medical School, Boston)

Friday 24 November 2023

• 14:00 - Using virtual clinical trials to improve our understanding of diseases
  Professor Adrianne Jenner (Queensland University of Technology)

Friday 1 December 2023

• 14:00 - Sequence models in biomedicine: from predicting disease progression to genome editing outcomes
  Professor Michael Krauthammer (Department of Quantitative Biomedicine University of Zurich)

Friday 19 January 2024

• 14:00 - Modelling cells in one-dimension: diverse migration modes, emergent oscillations on junctions and multicellular "trains"
  Professor Nir Gov (Department of Chemical and Biological Physics Weizmann Institute of Science)

Friday 26 January 2024

• 14:00 - The hitchhiker's guide to complex models of intracellular signalling
  Professor Fabian Frohlich (The Francis Crick Institute)

Monday 12 February 2024

• 16:30 - From individual-based models to continuum descriptions: Modelling and analysis of interactions between different populations.
  Dr Mariya Ptashnyk (Dept of Maths Herriot Watt University)

Friday 16 February 2024

• 14:00 - Active surfaces in biology
  Professor Alex Mietke (Dept of Physics, University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 12:00 - Structural identifiability analysis: An important tool in systems modelling
  Professor Michael Chappell (University of Warwick)

Friday 1 March 2024

• 14:00 - Extreme pushed and pulled fronts
  Professor John King (School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham)

Friday 8 March 2024

• 14:00 - Modeling multiscale systems in bone mechanobiology
  Professor Esther Reina Romo (Department of Mechanical Engineering ETSI, University of Seville)

Friday 26 April 2024

• 14:00 - Polynomial dynamical systems and reaction networks: persistence and global attractors
  Professor Gheorghe Craciun (Department of Mathematics and Department of Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Friday 3 May 2024

• 14:00 - Epidemiological modelling with behavioural considerations and to inform policy making
  Dr Edward Hill (Dept of Mathematics, University of Warwick)

Friday 10 May 2024

• 14:00 - The determining role of cell adhesions for force transmission, mechanical activity and stiffness sensing in cells and tissues
  Dr Carina Edwards (School of Mathematics & Physics, University of Surrey)

Friday 17 May 2024

• 14:00 - Some consequences of phenotypic heterogeneity in living active matter
  Dr Philip Pearce (Dept of Mathematics, UCL)

Friday 24 May 2024

• 14:00 - Open challenges at the intersection of Synthetic Biology and Mathematics
  Dr Harrison Steel (University of Oxford)

Friday 31 May 2024

• 14:00 - Cytoneme-mediated morphogenesis
  Prof Paul Bressloff (Dept of Mathematics, Imperial College, London)

Friday 7 June 2024

• 14:00 - Modeling the electromechanics of aerial electroreception
  Dr Isaac Vikram Chenchiah (School of Mathematics University of Bristol)

Friday 14 June 2024

• 14:00 - Brain mechanics in the Data era
  Prof Antoine Jerusalem (University of Oxford)

Monday 17 June 2024

• 11:00 - Mathematical modelling to support New Zealand’s Covid-19 response
  Prof Mike Plank (University of Canterbury)

Friday 18 October 2024

• 11:00 - Novel multi-omics approaches to understand immune cell biology in health and disease
  Prof Rachael Bashford-Rogers (University of Oxford)

Friday 25 October 2024

• 11:00 - Engineering Biology for Robust Turing Patterns
  Prof Robert Endres (Imperial College London)

Friday 1 November 2024

• 11:00 - Applications of extreme statistics to cellular decision making and signaling
  Prof Alan Lindsay (University of Notre Dame)

Friday 8 November 2024

• 11:00 - Functional, neutral and selected heterogeneity in multi-cellular populations and human tissues
  Dr David Tourigny (University of Birmingham)

Friday 15 November 2024

• 11:00 - Lane formation and aggregation spots in foraging ant
  Dr Maria Bruna (University of Oxford)

Friday 22 November 2024

• 11:00 - Bifurcations, pattern formation and multi-stability in non-local models of interacting species
  Dr Valeria Giunta (Swansea University)

Friday 29 November 2024

• 11:00 - Algebraic approaches in the study of chemical reaction networks
  Dr Murad Banaji (University of Oxford)

Friday 17 January 2025

• 11:00 - Do individuals matter? - From psychology, via wound healing and calcium signalling to ecology
  Dr Ivo Siekmann (University of Liverpool)

Friday 24 January 2025

• 11:00 - To be announced
  Prof Simon Walker-Samuel (UCL)

Friday 31 January 2025

• 11:00 - To be announced
  Dr Kit Yates (Bath University)

Friday 7 February 2025

• 11:00 - To be announced
  Giulia Celora (University of Oxford)

Friday 14 February 2025

• 11:00 - To be announced
  TBA

Friday 21 February 2025

• 11:00 - To be announced
  Prof Maria Secrier (UCL)

Friday 28 February 2025

• 11:00 - To be announced
  Dr Matthias Sachs (University of Birmingham)

Friday 7 March 2025

• 11:00 - Nonlocal advection-diffusion for modelling organism space use and movement
  Prof Jonathan Potts (University of Sheffiled)

Friday 14 March 2025

• 11:00 - To be announced
  Prof Ben Lambert (University of Oxford)