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All Seminars
2026
February 05, 2026 – Karoline Huth (Department of Health Promotion, Maastricht University) – Statistical Evidence in Psychological Networks
2025
November 18, 2025 – Adrianne Jenner (Queensland University of Technology) – In silico immunology: virtual clinical trials in cancer
October 28, 2025 – Nessy Tania (Pfizer) – Guiding Clinical Development of New Medicine: Insights from Quantitative Systems Pharmacology
August 12, 2025 – John Hickey (Duke University) – Living Maps: Using Spatial Omics to Simulate Cellular Behavior in Silico
May 13, 2025 – Anne Talkington (University of Buffalo) – Modeling tumor-immune interactions and optimal perturbations
April 08, 2025 – Manu Aggarwal (NIH) – Sensitivity based model agnostic scalable explanations of deep learning
March 18, 2025 – Lucas Boettcher (UF) – Aggregating multiple test results to improve medical decision-making
February 11, 2025 – Lucian Smith (University of Washington) – Computational Reproducibility: Science Past the Publication methods
February 04, 2025 – Dilan Pathirana (IRU Mathematics & Life Sciences, Universitat Bonn) – Parameter estimation, uncertainty quantification and model selection in systems biology: standards, software, and methods
2024
December 17, 2024 – Chengyue Wu (MD Anderson) – Image-guided cancer patient digital twins for personalized healthcare
December 10, 2024 – Geoffrey Fox & Tien Comlekoglu (University of Virginia) – Generative AI for Digital Twins of Biological Systems
November 19, 2024 – Rebecca Segal (Virginia Commonwealth University) – Models of bacteria-phage interactions
November 12, 2024 – Claus Kadelka (Iowa State) – A meta-analysis of expert-curated Boolean gene regulatory network models reveals a number of special structural and dynamical features
November 05, 2024 – Marco Salemi (UF Emerging Pathogens Institute) – Genomic epidemiology and intra-host pathogenesis in the age of AI
October 29, 2024 – Tracy Stepien (UF Mathematics) – An approximate Bayesian computation approach for embryonic astrocyte migration model reduction
October 22, 2024 – Libin Rong (UF Mathematics) – Recent developments in modeling HIV infection and treatment
October 15, 2024 – Matthias König (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) – Reproducible digital twins for personalized liver function assessment
September 24, 2024 – Ami Radunskaya (Pomona College) – DCs and Doses: the mathematics behind being in the right place at the right time
August 27, 2024 – Byungjoon Min (Chungbuk National University / UF) – Spreading processes on complex networks and their applications
August 20, 2024 – Wencel Valega Mackenzie (FDA) – Dose optimization approach of an adjuvanted peptide-based personalized neoantigen melanoma vaccine
August 06, 2024 – Sonza Singh (University of Massachusetts) – Progression and Transmission of HIV (PATH 4.0) – A new Agent-based Evolving Network Simulation for Modeling HIV Transmission Clusters
July 23, 2024 – Ali Zarrinpar (UF Surgery) – The Future of Transplant Personalized Pharmacotherapy
July 16, 2024 – Austin Baird (University of Washington) – Whole Body Physiology Model to Simulate Respiratory Depression of Fentanyl and Associated Naloxone Reversal – A Model Informed Repeat Dosing Analysis
June 04, 2024 – Charles Puelz (Baylor College of Medicine) – Computational cardiology: from vessel network modeling to cardiac fluid-structure interaction
April 30, 2024 – Quindel Jones (VCU) – Dynamic Mathematical Approaches to Understanding Pain in Sickle Cell Disease
April 09, 2024 – Nick Cogan (FSU) – Two versions of anticancer treatments combining theoretical and experimental studies
April 02, 2024 – Yong Huang (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering) – Novel Implementation of Three-Dimensional Bioprinting
March 26, 2024 – Pablo Santiago Rivadeneira Paz (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) – Artificial Pancreas in Colombia: from idealization to reality
March 21, 2024 – Eirini Tsirvouli (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) – Dynamic Boolean modeling of psoriasis
March 19, 2024 – Marissa Renardy (Applied BioMath) – A multi-scale semi-mechanistic CK/PD model for CAR T-cell therapy
March 12, 2024 – Wenrui Hao (Penn State) – Harness computational modeling to understand biomedical diseases
February 27, 2024 – Samsun Lampotang (UF Anesth) – Applying models to simulations in healthcare
January 23, 2024 – Ivan Ramirez Zuniga (UF) – Modeling the Energy Requirements of an Acute Immune Response during Sepsis.
January 16, 2024 – Ahmed Elmokadem (UConn and IU) – Rise of the Machines: Will Machine Learning Take Over the World of Pharmacometrics?
2023
December 05, 2023 – Francine Azeredo (UF Coll. of Pharmacy) – rcvd
November 28, 2023 – Rachel Clipp (Kitware) – Towards a Human Physiological Digital Twin with the Pulse Physiology Engine
November 14, 2023 – Dhananjay Bhaskar (Yale University) – Geometric and Topological Machine Learning for Drug Discovery, Cellular Dynamics, and Brain Imaging
November 07, 2023 – Christina Duron & Hannah Kravitz (Pepperdine University & Portland State University, respectively) – A coupled spatial-network model for epidemiology
October 31, 2023 – Michelle Bartolo (NC State) – rcvd
October 24, 2023 – Takis Benos (University of Florida) – rcvd
October 17, 2023 – Bryana Harris (University of Virginia) – Systems approach to identify novel mechanisms driving cardiomyocyte proliferation
October 03, 2023 – Vincent Gureghian (University of Luxembourg) – A new role for interferon gamma in facilitating senescence escape in melanoma.
September 26, 2023 – Ziwen Yu (UF) – A Staged QAQC Method for IoT Based Environment Monitoring
September 12, 2023 – Boone M. Prentice (UF) – Spatial metabolomics during infection enabled by imaging mass spectrometry
September 05, 2023 – Thomas Asikis (University of Zurich) – Simulation and Control of High-dimensional Dynamical Systems
August 15, 2023 – Ximena Fernández (Durham University, UK) – Topological biomarkers for real-time detection of epileptic seizures
July 18, 2023 – Tien Comlekoglu (U. Virginia) – Vivarium: Tissue geometry and cell rearrangement as emergent drivers of collective cell migration
July 11, 2023 – Eran Agmon (U. Conn.) – Vivarium: an interface and engine for integrative, multiscale modeling in biology
June 20, 2023 – Megan Haase (U. Virginia) – Agent-Based Model Predicts How Altered Cytokine Dynamics Enhances Skeletal Muscle Regeneration
June 06, 2023 – Mette Olufsen (NCSU) – cardiovascular modeling
May 09, 2023 – Jesse Kreger (USC) – Modeling stochastic cancer dynamics in complex tumor microenvironments
March 28, 2023 – Anna Konstorum (UF/UCI) – Decomposition methods for high-dimensional data: making interpretability a priority
March 21, 2023 – Amanda Shick (UF Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Laboratory of Amor Menezes)) – Control-Theoretic Development of Therapeutic Interventions for Coagulopathy in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
March 07, 2023 – Julio Belmonte (North Carolina State) – TDB
February 21, 2023 – Anne Donnelly (UF, Center for Undergraduate Research) – Mentoring Undergraduate Researchers
January 31, 2023 – Stephan Schmidt (UF, College of Pharmacy) – Empowering Translational Research Through Data Integration
2022
December 06, 2022 – Maria Rodriguez Martinez (IBM Zurich) – Interpretable deep learning for cancer personalized medicine
November 22, 2022 – Mohammad Zahid (Moffitt) – Title: Modeling Tumor Volume Dynamics to Personalize Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer
November 08, 2022 – Erica Rutter (UC Merced) – Modeling and Estimating Intratumoral Heterogeneity in Cancer
November 01, 2022 – Iryna Hartsock (University of Florida) – Topological data analysis and its applications to biological data
October 25, 2022 – Francesco Pappalardo (University of Catania, Italy) – Universal Immune System Simulator applied to respiratory infectious diseases
October 11, 2022 – Thomas Woolley (Cardiff University, Wales) – “The Power of Noise”
July 19, 2022 – Hannah Norton; Borui Zhang (UF Dept of Med Librarians) – UF library resources
July 05, 2022 – Kasia Rejniak (Moffitt Cancer Center) – Micro-pharmacology: modeling the tissue barriers in cancer therapies
June 07, 2022 – Cynthia Wilson Garvan (Department of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, University of Florida) – Apple, Tree, Orchard: Observations on the Balance of Theory and Application in University of Florida’s Mathematical Sciences Ecosystem
May 24, 2022 – Van Thuy Truong (AstraZeneca, Clinical Pharmacology Biologics and Bioanalysis) – Comparison of ODE and agent-based approaches to pharmacokinetic pharmacodynamic models
April 19, 2022 – TJ Sego (Indiana University) – Enabling the Future of Biological and Biomedical Sciences with Advanced Modeling, Software and Computing
April 12, 2022 – Jeffrey West (Moffitt Cancer Center) – Dose response curvature predicts optimal adaptive treatment scheduling
April 05, 2022 – Andy Stein (Novartis) – Assessing the uncertainty and predictive accuracy of mechanistic models: with applications in CML
March 22, 2022 – Carl Panetta (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital) – Study Design and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Pediatric Cancer: A Modeling and Simulation Approach
March 08, 2022 – Suzanne Sindi (UC Merced) – Using Mathematical Models to Study Heterogeneous Yeast Colony Prion Phenotypes
March 01, 2022 – Simon R. Phillpot (University of Florida, College of Engineering) – Immuno-Oncology in Three Dimensions: Simulation and Experiments
March 01, 2022 – W. Gregory Sawyer (University of Florida, College of Engineering) – Immuno-Oncology in Three Dimensions: Simulation and Experiments
February 22, 2022 – Jaimit Parikh (Quantitative Systems Pharmacology at GSK) – Application of uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis methods to quantitative pharmacology models
January 18, 2022 – Karin Leiderman (Colorado School of Mines) – A Systems Biology Approach to Identifying Modifiers of Bleeding in Hemophilia
January 11, 2022 – Mark Transtrum (Brigham Young University) – Using Simple Models to Understand Complex Biological Processes
January 04, 2022 – Karamatou Yacoubou Djima (Amherst College) – Explaining Autism Spectrum Disorder with Placenta via Machine Learning
2021
December 16, 2021 – Danielle Brager (National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) – Mathematically Investigating Retinitis Pigmentosa
November 30, 2021 – Natasha Martin (University of California San Diego) – Modeling to inform a university’s COVID policies: UC San Diego’s Return to Learn Program
November 18, 2021 – Jeremy DeBarry (UGA) – 10 simple (not always easy) tips for a systems biology cyberinfrastructure
November 04, 2021 – David Isaacson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) – Imaging ventilation and perfusion using Electrical Impedance Tomography
October 28, 2021 – Daniel Plaugher (University of Kentucky) – Modeling the Pancreatic Cancer Microenvironment in Search of Control Targets
September 23, 2021 – Mark Terasaki (UConn Health) – Analysis of the three dimensional structure of the kidney glomerulus capillary network
September 02, 2021 – Matthew Wheeler (University of Florida) – Applications of persistence landscapes in machine learning
July 01, 2021 – Marissa Renardy (University of Michigan, Applied Biomath) – Mathematical and computational modeling as tools for tuberculosis elimination
June 24, 2021 – Yogesh Scindia (University of Florida) – Dichotomous role of iron in end organ susceptibility to fungal infections
May 27, 2021 – Jason Shoemaker (University of Pittsburgh) – Computational modeling to reveal the molecular mechanisms of immunopathology in flu and COVID-19
April 22, 2021 – Dr. Greg Forrest (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) – Modeling insights into SARS-CoV-2 respiratory tract infections
April 15, 2021 – Dr. John Nardini (SAMSI & N.C. State University) – Learning Differential Equation Models for Noisy Biological Data and Agent-Based Models
April 08, 2021 – Esteban Vargas (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany) – Multiscale Computational Approaches in Infectious Diseases
April 01, 2021 – Dr. Vitaly V. Ganusov (University of Tennessee) – Understanding early events of malaria infection in naive and immune mice: insights from combining experiments with mathematical modeling
March 25, 2021 – Daniel Cruz (Ga Tech) – Agent-based Modeling of Emergent Patterns Within Stem Cell Colonies
March 18, 2021 – Matthew Broussard (Washington State University) – Steinhaus Filtration and Stable Paths in the Mapper
March 04, 2021 – Lubna Pinky (University of Tennessee Health Science Center) – Quantifying Dose-, Strain-, and Tissue-Specific Kinetics of Parainfluenza Virus Infection in Mice
February 25, 2021 – Tracy Stepien (UFL) – Spreading Mechanics and Differentiation of Astrocytes During Retinal Development
February 18, 2021 – Eashwar Somasundaram and Adam Litzler (Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine) – Persistent Homology of Tumor CT Scans Predicts Survival in Lung Cancer (Somasundaram) and Classification of Lung Tumor CT Scans through Persistent Homology (Litzler)
February 11, 2021 – Dr. Alicia Prieto Langarica (Youngstown State University) – modeling the effects of thermoregulation on human sleep