Biomedical Mathematics Online Colloquium

Abstract The standard theory of infectious diseases, tracing back to the work of Kermack and McKendrick nearly a century ago, has been a triumph of mathematical biology, a rare marriage of theory and application. Yet the limitations of its most simple representations, which has always been known, have been laid bare in dealing with COVID-19, …

Abstract Our present healthcare system focuses on treating people when they are ill rather than keeping them healthy. We have been using big data and remote monitoring approaches to monitor people while they are healthy to keep them that way and detect disease at its earliest moment presymptomatically. We use advanced multiomics technologies (genomics, immunomics, …

Abstract Individual human cancer cells often show different responses to the same treatment. In this talk I will share the quantitative experimental approaches my lab has developed for studying the fate and behavior of human cells at the single-cell level. I will focus on the tumor suppressor protein p53, a transcription factor controlling genomic integrity …

Abstract The advent of single-cell transcriptomics has brought a greatly improved understanding of the heterogeneity of gene expression across cell types, with important applications in developmental biology and cancer research. Single-cell RNA sequencing datasets, which are based on tags called universal molecular identifiers, typically include a large number of zeroes. For such datasets, genes with …