Computational Modeling of Cancer & Systems Biology

Session Chair(s)

• 

  Sarah Shelton, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  North Carolina State University & University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  Cary, North Carolina, United States
• KW

  Karin Wang, PhD

  Assistant Professor
  Temple University, United States

Track Chair(s)

• EP

  Erica Pratt, PhD (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
  Boston University
  Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• MO

  Madeleine Oudin

  Tufts University

Presentations:

• 4:30 PM – 4:45 PM EST

  Mechanistic Computational Modeling of Antibody-based Therapeutics
  

  Invited Speaker: Feilim Mac Gabhann, PhD – Johns Hopkins University
• 4:45 PM – 5:00 PM EST

  ECM architecture drives distinct evolutionary patterns of tumor immune escape and elimination in breast cancer
  

  Presenting Author: YIJIA FAN (she/her/hers) – Texas A&M University

  Last Author: Jason George, MD, PhD – Texas A&M University
• 5:00 PM – 5:15 PM EST

  Mathematical model of AND-gated protease sensors identifies strategies to achieve earlier detection of small tumors
  

  Presenting Author: Anirudh Sivakumar, PhD – Georgia Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Xinling Li, MS – Georgia Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: M.G. Finn, PhD – Georgia Institute of Technology

  Co-Author: Peng Qiu, PhD – Georgia Tech

  Primary Investigator: Gabe Kwong, PhD – Georgia Institute of Technology
• 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM EST

  Mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling is a conserved mechanism explaining phenotypic heterogeneity across diverse drivers of epithelial-mesenchymal transition in pancreas cancer
  

  Presenting Author: Michelle C. Barbeau (she/her/hers) – The University of Virginia

  Co-Author: Brooke A. Brown – The University of Virginia

  Co-Author: Sara J. Adair, MS – University of Virginia

  Co-Author: Todd W. Bauer, MD (he/him/his) – University of Virginia

  Last Author: Matthew J. Lazzara – University of Virginia
• 5:30 PM – 5:45 PM EST

  Using MRI-based mathematical modeling to predict the response of breast cancer to neoadjuvant therapy
  

  Presenting Author: Reshmi Patel, MS (she/her/hers) – The University of Texas at Austin

  Co-Author: Chengyue Wu, PhD (she/her/hers) – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

  Co-Author: Casey E. Stowers, MS (she/her/hers) – The University of Texas at Austin

  Co-Author: Rania Mohamed, MD, MSc (she/her/hers) – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

  Co-Author: Jingfei Ma, PhD – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

  Co-Author: Gaiane Rauch – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

  Last Author: Thomas Yankeelov, PhD – The University of Texas at Austin
• 5:45 PM – 6:00 PM EST

  Assessment of Breast Tumor’s Malignancy through Developing Virtual Physiology of Human Tumor Tissue
  

  Presenting Author: Mahsa Dabagh, Phd (she/her/hers) – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  Co-Author: Kianoush Falahkheirkhah – UIUC

  Co-Author: Morgan Connaughton – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  Last Author: Rohit Bhargava, PhD – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign