Research group blog of the Wolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford.
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Our newest preprint investigates the impact of electric fields on cell-cell interactions! ⚡️🦠HINT: it changes things! 😆 Read this work with @simonmape here 👉 biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… @OxUniMaths @WCMBlog
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Great talk by @Ari_Ceccarelli on velocity jump models #SMB2024 Read the paper 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2406.19787
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Trying to decide where to go first this morning at #smb2024 and like spatial data? Come along to our minisymposium in room 107 at 10am - highly spatially correlated with the coffee stands for your convenience
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It's that time of year again! No, not Christmas - I meant the @OxfordCancer annual symposium
Hosted by @OxUniMaths this year, and with a huge @WCMBlog turnout too.
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A fun morning of public engagement at @WCMBlog for @OxUniMaths masterclasses today - lots of fractals and Turing patterns! Plus an attempt to turn a lecture theatre full of year 9s into a differential adhesion model that worked surprisingly well (paper shows where they ended up!)
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Fully funded PhD project available @OxUniMaths - developing mathematical models of Epstein-Barr virus dynamics and the subsequent onset of neurological disease (e.g. Multiple Sclerosis). For further details, see Project K under the Studentships tab at ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate…
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Our new preprint: how can biological systems use multiple compartments to regulate or “smooth” behaviour when subject to a stochastic input? 👉 arxiv.org/pdf/2305.09004.pdf Joint work with @adrianne_jenner @ruth_baker @PhilipMaini @WCMBlog
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It's almost as much of a cliché to say maths is not just sums & slog as to say it is.
The Oxford Maths Festival doesn't care about definitions. Puzzles, games, craft & @TimHarford making sense of the world. Call it what you like. Ages 0-116.
13 & 14 May:
mathsfest.web.ox.ac.uk/
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Some people don't like it easy. Which is a relief because there are a lot of tough problems around.
Oxford Mathematician Jess Crawshaw likes things to be difficult as she explains in our latest 'Me and My Maths' film.
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To all applied maths students in the UK!
There will be a wonderful SIAM UKIE National Student Chapter Conference in Oxford on 1-2 June 2023 (organised and run for and by students)
Register for free conference2023.oxfordsiam.co….
Please RT and encourage your students to attend!
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Ever wanted an interactive lightning-fast solver for models in physics, chemistry, or biology? Do you have a web browser?
I'm thrilled to announce VIsualPDE.com, built explicitly to solve PDE models interactively on most devices, written by @bj_w95 @Pecnut and I.
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WE'RE RETURNING FOR 2023! You are now able to book for the Oxford Maths Festival, taking place 13-14 May. It's great for families with kids aged 5-13. Take a look at our programme for this year and get yourself booked. mathsfest.web.ox.ac.uk/whats… #Maths #Family #OxMathsFest
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Another postdoc position available, come and work with us on spatial data analysis - great opportunity for a mathematician who wants to be based in a bio lab @HumanGeneticsOx, but still keep close contact with the math bio world via @WCMBlog
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How can maths inform tissue engineering bioreactor design? Come find out more at #APSDFD2022! 12:50pm, Room 134 🧫💻
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The Maths + Cancer podcast, hosted by @VickyMaths1729, is a personal exploration of how maths & stats are helping medicine understand the many diseases that are cancer. In episode 1, Vicky talks to mathematical modeller @PhilipMaini
More & full interview:
oxford.shorthandstories.com/…
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How often do mathematicians run their models?
@JoshuaABull ran our World Cup model 1,000,000+ times & knockout games 100,000 each to find most likely outcomes. We stress 'likely'. With 64 games 'unlikely' is likely to have the odd good game.
The video:
youtube.com/watch?v=KjISuZ5o…
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In 2010, Paul the Octopus. But in 2022, @JoshuaABull the Oxford Mathematician.
Winner of 2020 Fantasy Football, Josh has crunched data, applied his modelling skills, added a pinch of assumption &, voilà, the @OxUniMaths World Cup predictor.
Full video:
youtube.com/watch?v=KjISuZ5o…
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Where mathematicians - biological, topological & data scientific - & pathologists & clinicians hang out.
In our latest example of cross-fertilisation of the sciences in @UniofOxford, @haharrington et al. identify immune cell spatial patterns in tumours.
maths.ox.ac.uk/node/40112
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New pre-print now online: high infectiousness immediately before COVID-19 symptom onset highlights the importance of contact tracing medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/… @WCMBlog
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Hot off the press this morning, our new article in #PLOSCompBio: Mathematical modelling reveals cellular dynamics within tumour spheroids dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.…. If you're at #SMB2020 this week and want to chat about it, let me know!