Organizers:
Courtney Davis
Amanda Galante
Shelby Wilson
Doron Levy
Time: Friday 2-3pm
Location: CSIC 4122 (CSCAMM Seminar Room)
Section Number: AMSC 689 (3502)
Schedule:
1. February 4
Organizational Meeting
Please read: Visvader "Cells of Origin in Cancer", Nature 469 (2011)
Shelby Wilson: What is Cancer - following the NCI presentation
2. February 11
Courtney Davis
An introduction to immunology (an NCI presentation)
Amanda Galante:
"Interactions Between the Immune System and Cancer:
A Brief Review of Non-Spatial Mathematical Models" (Eftimie et al.)
4. February 25
"Conceptual Framework for Mathematical Modeling of Tumor Growth"
(Bajzer et al.)
5. March 4
Rachel Evans
"The Pathogenesis of Cancer Metastasis" (Poste et al.)
6. March 11
7. March 18 & March 25
Spring break - no meeting
8. April 1
David Harris:
"Migration Rules: Tumours are Conglomerates of Self-Metastases"
(Enderling et al.)
9. April 8
Lee Mendelowitz:
"Towards Whole-Organ Modelling of Tumour Growth" (Alacron et al.)
"Modelling the Role of Angiogenesis & Vasculogenesis in Solid
Tumour Growth" (Stamper et al.)
10. April 15
Amanda Galante:
"A Kinetic Model of Tumor/Immune System Cellular Interactions"
(Arlotti et al.)
11. April 22
Shelby Wilson:
"Optimal & Suboptimal Protocols for a Mathematical Model for Tumor
Anti-Angiogenesis in Combination with Chemotherapy" (Ledzewicz et al.)
Math
1. Eftimie, Bramson, Earn, “Interactions between the immune system and cancer: a brief review of non-spatial mathematical models”, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (2010)
2. Chaplain, “Modeling aspects of cancer growth: insight from mathematical and numerical analysis and computational simulation” In: Multiscale problems in the life sciences. Lecture notes in Mathematics, Vol. 1490, 147-200. Springer
3. Roose, Chapman, Maini, “Mathematical models of avascular tumor growth”, SIAM Review, 49 (2007), 179-208.
4. Bellomo, Li, Maini, “On the foundations of cancer modelling: selected topics, speculations, and perspectives”, Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, 18 (2008), 593-646.
5. Bellomo, Preziosi, “Modelling and mathematical problems related to tumor evolution and its interaction with the immune system”, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, 32 (2000), 413-452.
6. Byrne, Alarcon, Owen, Webb, Maini, “Modeling aspects of cancer dynamics: a review”. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 364, 1563-1578.
7. Araujo and McElwain, “A history of solid tumor growth: the contribution of mathematical modelling”, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology (2004), 66, 1039-1091.
Medical
1. Ruddon, Cancer Biology, Oxford University Press. Of interest will be the following chapters:
a. Chapter 4: The biochemistry and cell biology of cancer
b. Chapter 5: Molecular genetics of cancer
c. Chapter 6: Tumor immunology
2. Sompayrac, How the Immune System Works.
3. Janeway’s Immunobiology.