We are looking for a postdoc who is excited to collaborate closely with experimental and industrial partners to develop mathematical and machine learning models to advance biomedical problems. https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CZV036/research-fellow
Dear all, The 2nd BioInference conference (https://bioinference.github.io/2023) is taking place at the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford on the 8th-9th June 2023. Launched in 2022, BioInference aims to bring together researchers from across statistics and mathematical modelling who work with biological systems, and from all career stages, to foster discussions between the two communities and to prompt collaborations. If you would like to attend the event in-person (tickets limited and on a first come first served basis), the tickets cost £70 and can be purchased here: https://fixr.co/event/bioinference-2023-conference-tickets-341678825. If you wish to attend the event online, the tickets cost £20 and can be purchased here: https://fixr.co/event/bioinference-2023-conference-tickets-531133874. The conference will combine contributed talks and poster sessions, with a schedule available on the website.
We are looking forward to seeing you at BioInference2023,
best, Massimiliano on the behalf of the BioInference Organisers Ioana Bouros (Oxford); Fergus Cooper (Oxford); Richard Creswell (Oxford); Aden Forrow (Maine); Ben Lambert (Exeter); Chon Lok Lei (Macau); Massimiliano Tamborrino (Warwick); Tom Thorne (Surrey)
The Faculty of Biology offers a full-time research position in Theoretical Evolutionary Ecology
The position can start on January 1, 2024 and is funded until the end of the year 2025 by the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the collaborative research centre (SFB/TRR 212) entitled: A Novel Synthesis of Individualisation across Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution: Niche Choice, Niche Conformance, Niche Construction (NC3). The aim of the Postdoc project is to develop ecological and evolutionary theory to contribute towards a better understanding of individual niche variation.
For further information, please use this link: https://uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/2395/research-position-postdoc?page_lang=en
Biomolecules and Nanostructures 8 14 - 18 June 2023, hotel Forest, Krakow, Poland http://www.nanofun.edu.pl/bionano8 Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 April 2023 Early Bird Payment deadline: 7 May 2023. -------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues and Friends,
It is a pleasure to invite you to participate in the 8th edition of the interdisciplinary conference "Biomolecules and Nanostructures", to be held in hotel Forest in Krakow, starting on June 14th 2023 in the evening and ending on June 18th in the morning (Wednesday to Sunday). The conference is dedicated to the memory of Professor Marek Cieplak. The conference is organized by the Institute of Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw.
The key topics of the conference cover current subjects at the crossroads of molecular biology, physics, and chemistry, including biomolecules, nanostructures, nanomachines, and biosensors. The specific topics of "Biomolecules and Nanostructures 8" will include: - single-molecule manipulation - liquid–liquid phase separation - bio-nano interfaces - proteins in viral capsids - all-atom and coarse-grained molecular models - intrinsically disordered proteins - assembly of protein complexes - interactions between nucleic acids and proteins and other issues related to molecular biophysics and biochemistry, both experimental and theoretical.
Many distinguished scientists have agreed to give invited talks, as listed at: http://www.nanofun.edu.pl/bionano8/#speakers The list of the oral presentations is not final. In particular, a few short talks will be selected from the submitted abstracts. "Biomolecules and Nanostructures 8" in Krakow is the eighth conference in a series of almost 20-year tradition. The previous editions took place in Bedlewo near Poznan in Greater Poland, Pultusk near Warsaw in Mazovia, Jaroszowice near Krakow in Lesser Poland, Podlesice in Polish Jura, and in the Kashubian village of Pomlewo. An overview of the scope and plenary speakers of the previous conferences (2004, 2006, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019) is available at
http://www.nanofun.edu.pl/bionano7/previous-editions-bio-nano.html
The conference will take place in the beautiful historic city of Krakow in hotel Forest, located near the Przegorzaly Castle and Tower on the Castle Hill. The Przegorzały Castle, known as the "Bastion", was built by the Polish art historian Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz as his own residence in the 1920s. Przegorzaly is a town in the Zwierzyniec district of Krakow, located 6.5 km west of the city center at the edge of the Wolski Woods, east of Bielany and west of the Kościuszko Mound, overlooking the Vistula river. It is home to several nature reserves and has retained a semi-rural character. The driving distance from the airport in Krakow is about 11 km and from the Krakow Glowny railway station about 10 km. The number of participants is limited to 150. The registration will be on the first-come first-served basis.
The International Advisory Board: Jayanth Banavar, University of Oregon, USA Mariusz Jaskolski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland Chris Johnson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom Andrzej Kloczkowski, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, USA Adam Liwo, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Gdansk, Poland Andrzej Sienkiewicz, EPFL & ADSresonances Sàrl, Switzerland
Please circulate this announcement to your co-workers and colleagues. Mateusz Chwastyk Chair, Local Organizing Committee Laboratory of Biological Physics Institute of Physics Polish Academy of Sciences Warsaw, Poland
Biomath is an international series of conferences devoted to recent research in life sciences based on applications of mathematics as well as mathematics applied to or motivated by biological studies. It is a multidisciplinary meeting forum for researchers who develop and apply mathematical and computational tools to the study of phenomena in the broad fields of biology, ecology, medicine, biophysics, biochemistry, pharmacokinetics, chemoinformatics, biotechnology, bioengineering, environmental science, etc.
What does Biomath 2023 offer • Presentations by top class keynote speakers • Opportunity to share your research via a contributed talk, a poster or both. • Opportunity to publish in the journal Biomath (SJR 2021: 0.246, Scopus, DOAJ, MathSciNet, zbMATH), https://biomath.math.bas.bg/biomath/index.php/biomath • Opportunity to meet and interact with researchers in this interdisciplinary area, build links, establish collaborative networks. • School for Young Scientists for kick starting an academic career in Biomathematics. • Research stimulating environment in the setting of a pleasant and a care-free ambiance of a Black Sea resort. • Lots of history going back millennia, unique local culture and cuisine.
Conference language: English Conference website: www.biomath.bg/2023
This in-person workshop aims to bring together researchers in the field of epidemics with different backgrounds (mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, engineers, and biologists) to present current problems as well as potential avenues of future research in epidemiology. Possible topics covered in the workshop are, among others: capturing human behaviour in epidemic modelling, outbreak analysis, epidemics on metapopulation, non-Markovian epidemic models, challenging modelling problems, etc.
This event will be an exploratory workshop with discussions after each talk and talks that move away from closed presentations about already published research. We think that this format will enrich the attendees and the other participants. There will be room for poster presentations.
If interested, please submit an abstract of 2-3 pages through the website https://sites.google.com/view/epimod-girona2023/ .
It is our honour to announce the second edition of our hot-topic workshop series ‘Perturbations in Epilepsy’ to be held on June 26-27, 2023, at the University of Birmingham, UK. The theme of this year’s event is 'Quantifying the impact of seizure triggers'. The workshop is organised by the Centre for Systems Modelling and Quantitative Biomedicine (SMQB) and is planned as an in-person event. We are bringing together key stakeholders including patients with lived experience, clinicians and academics working at the forefront of epilepsy research, and partners from the wearables and neurotechnology industries to enable knowledge exchange and facilitate new collaborations on community-based epilepsy management. We have an exciting lineup of keynote speakers giving talks across three thematic sessions: - Clinical perspectives: Neurologists and neurophysiologists sharing their perspectives about seizures and their triggers. - Industry perspectives: Representatives from the industry presenting solutions/devices that could help monitor seizure triggers. - Modelling perspectives: Academics sharing their perspectives on how this data could be included in seizure prediction and prevention. We are also hosting a poster session on the first day, giving early career researchers an opportunity to showcase their work and gather feedback. On the second day, we will conclude with an ECR Symposium to discuss best practices and future requirements to support early career researchers to thrive in the epilepsy research community.
For further details including the programme and how to register and submit an abstract, please visit the event website at www.birmingham.ac.uk/PerturbationsInEpilepsy We are offering a reduced rate for student registration to encourage their participation. For queries, please contact the organisers at smqb@contacts.bham.ac.uk. We look forward to hosting you at Birmingham!
We offer a Research Scientist (Postdoc) position at the Center for Computational and Theoretical Biology, University of Würzburg, Germany for a maximum duration of four years.
We are seeking an independent and communicative postdoctoral researcher to join our team in theoretical biology. The ideal candidate will be interested in interdisciplinary collaborative research, have a strong record of originality, and be able to generate their own project ideas. The position will be available for four years and include some teaching duties. In addition, we will support candidates who wish to write grants and applications for starting their own research group. This is a unique opportunity for a highly motivated researcher to develop their own research program and gain valuable experience in teaching and mentoring.
The research agenda of our group focuses on the origins and dynamics of eco- evolutionary processes and patterns across scales of organisation, from sub-cellular to societal. We are interested in understanding the fundamental properties of living systems and develop translational applications such as in agriculture, conservation, and medicine when possible. To get an idea of the interests of our group please visit our publications.
The successful candidate therefore gets a wide berth in exploring systems from microbial to social and will have the freedom to develop an ambitious project to develop their independent research profile. Details: https://tecoevo.github.io/positions/#postdocs
On behalf of the Mathematical Institute Oxford and of the conference organisers, we are pleased to inform you about the following scientific event: "Topics on Neuroscience, Collective Migration and Parameter Estimation" which will take place in Oxford from July 3 to 7, 2023.
The talks will cover a broad range of topics in mathematical biology, with special focus on applications in populations dynamics, neuroscience and inverse problems. For a detailed list of the speakers and registration information, please follow
https://sites.google.com/view/neurocollectiveestimation/home?authuser=0.
We kindly encourage you to participate and share this invitation with your colleagues and any young researchers who may be interested (master students, Ph.D. students, post-docs...). If you are an early career researcher and want to apply for financial help, please include it in the registration form.-- Any questions about the scientific content of the workshop should be directed to the organisers.-- Queries about the logistics on-site in Oxford should be directed to Helen Stringer at Helen.Stringer@maths.ox.ac.uk.
Best regards,
Jose A. Carrillo, Gissell Estrada-Rodriguez, Duncan Martinson and Pierre Roux.
The immune system keeps a record of past infections. Can we learn to ‘read’ this record?
The Qimmuno Lab at University College London (https://qimmuno.com/) is looking for a PhD student for a 3 year studentship entitled 'Physics-guided machine learning of the immune receptor code'.
The adaptive immune system protects against infections and cancers by detecting them through hypervariable surface receptors on T cells. Each receptor binds to specific molecular targets, giving T cells the ability to sensitively detect fragments of viral or cancer-associated proteins. Individuals rarely have the exact same receptors as stochastic genetic recombination creates enormous receptor diversity. To crack the ‘code’ that links the immune record to an individual’s past, an important open problem is to identify common patterns in specific receptors. The aim of this project is to develop novel machine learning approaches to predict which immune receptors confer specificity to the same ligand.
For detailed information, please see https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/physics-guided-machine-learning-of-the-immune-receptor-code/?p158629
Application Deadline: July 7 The project is available for students eligible for UK home student fees
We are pleased to announce the 18th Annual Multicell Virtual-Tissue Modeling Online Summer School and Hackathon -- 2023, which will take place between Monday July 31st and Sunday August 13th, 2023.
We would very much appreciate your help in letting your colleagues and students know about this opportunity. This year’s workshop will take place over the course of two weeks. The first week will focus on the basics of building virtual tissue models modeling using CompuCell3D. The second week will focus on advanced modeling topics, as well as advanced features and capabilities of the CompuCell3D software. A two-day model-building Hackathon in which attendees work in teams to build a functioning model of their problem of interest will be hosted at the end of the advanced course. Attendees are welcome to attend only the first week, only the second week, or both weeks of the course. Attendance in the first week is not required to attend the advanced portion of the course. Attendance of at least one week of the workshop is required for participation in the Hackathon.
Summer school attendance guarantees admission to the Model-Building Hackathon. The Hackathon will group attendees by topic of interest. Experienced modelers will be embedded within each group. Workshop instructors will be available to assist Hackathon participants throughout the two-day session. Everyone will leave with a functioning core model that they can further customize.
For more information, please see our announcements at https://compucell3d.org/Workshop23
To register, please visit: https://tinyurl.com/CC3D2023. More information on CompuCell3D is available at https://compucell3d.org/.
Try out some example models online at NanoHub: https://compucell3d.org/Models-nanoHub.
For more information email hfennel@iu.edu
We would like to inform you the following three important topics of ICIAM 2023: The 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, August 20-25, 2023 https://iciam2023.org 1. Minisymposium Proposals/Contributed Talks deadline extended 2. Call for Posters 3. Financial Support 1. Minisymposium Proposals/Contributed Talks deadline extended Due to many requests, the deadline for abstract submission of minisymposium proposals and contributed talks for ICIAM 2023 has been extended to February 20, 2023. Calls for Minisymposia and Contributed Talks have been announced: https://iciam2023.org/1030 * Conference Format Every meeting at ICIAM 2023 will be held at Waseda University *in person*, and the conference program will be arranged in Japan Standard Time. For participants who have to attend the conference online for appropriate reasons, all conference rooms are capable of hybrid-style meetings. * Minisymposia What is a Minisymposium: A minisymposium is composed of one or a few sessions (up to three or four sessions) of coordinated presentations on a single topic of interest and importance in industrial and applied mathematics. Each session within a minisymposium should include four presentations in two hours. Each speaker should be allotted 25 minutes for their presentation, with an additional 5 minutes for discussion. Important Dates: All deadlines are at midnight AoE (Anywhere on Earth). - Closing date for submissions of proposals: February 20, 2023 (extended) - Acceptance notification for proposals: within one month after submission of each proposal - Closing date for submissions of abstracts from speakers: April 20, 2023 * Contributed Talks What is a Contributed Talk: Contributed talks in lecture format are invited in all areas consistent with the congress themes covering topics in industrial and applied mathematics. A contributed talk is a 15-minute oral presentation, with additional 5 minutes for discussion. Important Dates: All deadlines are at midnight AoE (Anywhere on Earth). - Closing date for submissions: February 20, 2023 (extended) - Notification of decisions: within two months after submission For more details for minisymposia and contributed talks, please see "Calls for Minisymposia and Contributed Talks": https://iciam2023.org/1030 2. Call for Posters Contributed presentations in poster format are invited in all areas consistent with the congress themes. The author that intends to present a poster at ICIAM 2023 must submit a title and a brief abstract not to exceed 75 words. Submission: Contributed presentations in poster format can be submitted via https://iciam2023.org/1225 Categories: Onsite poster presentation submission has two categories: Applied Mathematics and Industrial Mathematics. Even if you give an oral talk in the congress, you can submit one poster for Applied Mathematics and one poster for Industrial Mathematics, respectively. Important Dates: All deadlines are at midnight AoE (Anywhere on Earth). - Submissions of Posters open on January 10, 2023 - Closing date for submissions of posters: April 20, 2022 - Acceptance notification for posters: within two weeks after submission of each poster For more details for posters, please see "Call for Posters": https://iciam2023.org/1030 3. Financial Support This program is addressed to researchers of any nationality and professional situation needing financial support to attend the ICIAM 2023 Tokyo Congress. Grants will be awarded by the Financial Support Committee. Preference will be given to applicants who plan to give a presentation (oral and poster) at the congress. ICIAM 2023 Tokyo provides financial support for - FS1：Financial Support Program for Registration Fee - FS2：Financial Support Program for Travel Support You can apply both FS1 and FS2. Note that there are possibilities that an application for FS1 is accepted but that for FS2 is rejected due to many requests. Even in such a case, the presentation should not be canceled, since the presentation can be given online. Important Dates: All deadlines are at midnight AoE (Anywhere on Earth). * FS1 - Application open: December 1, 2022 - Closing date for the submission: February 20, 2023 - Date to start notification of decisions: December 1, 2022 - Date to terminate notification of decisions: April 10, 2023 * FS2 - Application open: January 20, 2023 - Closing date for the submission: March 20, 2023 - Date to start notification of decisions: April 1, 2023 - Date to terminate notification of decisions: April 10, 2023 For more details, please see "Financial Support": https://iciam2023.org/576 We are looking forward to your contribution! With best regards, Shin'ichi Oishi ICIAM2023 Congress Director Professor, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
To describe the dynamics of an ecological system with several interacting species, at least three ingredients must be simultaneously considered: 1) how the number and distribution of consumers (or predators) and resources (or prey) vary in the environment, 2) how interactions between individuals take place, 3) how interactions between individuals translate into births and deaths.
The classical model describing such a system is the deterministic Lotka-Volterra system (and its numerous derivations) where these three ingredients are generally implicitly assumed to occur at the same time scales. The aim of this PhD thesis is to study the properties of such systems using a stochastic approach, seeking in particular to highlight different regimes depending on the assumptions made about these three ingredients.
The PhD student will build on the work already carried out by the supervisors: a stochastic model of the interaction rates between prey and predators under the assumption that resources are instantaneously regenerated once consumed (Billiard et al. 2018), or on the contrary that resources are never regenerated during the random walk in space of the predator (Bansaye et al., in prep.), or indeed a multiscale approximation of population dynamics but in a non-spatial model with general interaction times (Bansaye and Cloez, 2021).
The aim of this thesis will be to study some relevant intermediate models where the time scales involved in the rates of interaction and population size variation are explicitly controlled. In particular, we will be interested in the lifetime of a predator whose survival depends on the amount of prey actually consumed as a function of the rate of prey regeneration. We will also want to determine under which hypotheses of the relationship of scales between consumption and reproduction speed, prey and predators can coexist over a long time. The thesis project is in the mathematical fields of space covering by a random walk (Le Gall, 1986), branching random walks, stochastic processes in random environments, and birth and death processes with interaction.
Profile sought: This project is open to any student of mathematics or theoretical physics with strong skills in probability and stochastic processes. The student should also have a strong interest in interdisciplinary interaction (in ecology) since the co-supervision will be ensured by two mathematicians and a biologist.
Supervisors: Vincent Bansaye (CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique), Sylvain Billiard (Evo-Eco-Paléo, Université de Lille), Jean-René Chazottes (CPHT, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique)
Laboratory of affiliation: Ecole Polytechnique
Contacts: sylvain.billiard@univ-lille.fr ; vincent.bansaye@polytechnique.edu ; Jean-Rene.Chazottes@cpht.polytechnique.fr
The Workshop on Mathematical Perspectives on Immunobiology brings together researchers who do research on one of the most complex systems of the human organism: the immune system. The focus will be on mathematical modeling and computational analysis applied to immunology, host-pathogen interactions, onset and progress in human diseases. Special attention will be paid to how applications of mathematics relate to open problems and questions in the context of infectious diseases, cancer and chronic inflammatory diseases.
Deadline for abstract submission: 23 June 2023
For more information and registration, please visit the workshop's website at http://www.math.bas.bg/nummeth/workshop2023/
The ICMS Workshop MoDiS 2023 on “Modelling Diffusive Systems” will take place at the ICMS in Edinburgh (UK) during the week 11-15 September 2023. For further information, please visit the workshop webpage https://www.icms.org.uk/MoDiS2023 The workshop aims to bring together both young and experienced researchers in the area of theoretical, numerical, and applied investigation of diffusive systems. The talks will be accompanied by a poster session.
Please apply here https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/MoDiS2023PublicApplication/ to present a poster at the workshop. Applications will close on Friday 14 July. Successful participants will be required to pay a 100 GBP registration fee. Limited funding is available to cover accommodation costs for early-career PhD students/researchers.
Physiology in Focus 2023 is the first joint physiology meeting of the Scandinavian Physiological Society (SPS), the Federation of European Physiological Societies (FEPS), and the Baltic Physiological Societies.
We would like to welcome researchers working on mathematical modeling in physiology and share their results with experimentalists. The program of the meeting and pre-meetings together is available on the website (see below).
Abstract submission deadline is May 25 2023.
Conference website: https://sps-feps-2023.eu
Dear colleagues, We would like to draw your attention to our Workshop "Advanced School on Quantitative Principles in Microbial Physiology: from Single Cells to Cell Communities". The workshop will be held at the International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, during the first two weeks of October 2023. Main topics will be cellular resource allocation and cell communities. The workshop is an in-person meeting (not hybrid) - it is possible to participate one of the two weeks, or both. Participation is free.
The Deadline for applications is May 31, 2023. For more information, please see the course website https://indico.ictp.it/event/10213 Please forward this announcement to colleagues or students interested in the topic. Thank you! Best regards, Wolfram Liebermeister and Valentina Baldazzi, on behalf of the organizers
*** Job description *** I am looking for two students interested in pursuing their PhD in Biophysics focused on understanding the biophysical limiting factors of patterning precision in developing tissues. The positions are fully funded by the National Science Center Poland (NCN). The project goal is to understand to what extent growth, cellular dynamics, biomechanical feedbacks and global mechanical constraints limit patterning precision in the growing tissue. The successful candidate is expected to actively take part in the project by proposing and analyzing models in the framework of theoretical and computational biophysics. The proposed models will be informed with high resolution experimental data provided by external collaborators. Both scholarships (#1 and #2) are aimed for applicants with computational background. The applicant should have MSc in biophysics, physics, mathematics, computer science or similar. The applicant should successfully apply to PhD school in Polish research institution or university.
The applicants should have: - interest in the interdisciplinary aspect of the project, - experience with numerical solvers (C++, Python), (scholarship #1) - experience with image segmentation algorithms, (scholarship #2) - proficiency in written and spoken English.
The project goal is to understand to what extent growth, cellular dynamics, biomechanical feedbacks and global mechanical constraints limit patterning precision in the growing tissue. The successful candidate is expected to actively take part in the project by proposing and analyzing models in the framework of theoretical and computational biophysics. The proposed models will be informed with high resolution experimental data provided by external collaborators.
*** Scope of work *** scholarship #1: The PhD student will develop a vertex model of growing tissue. The model will include novel methods to simulate cellular and bio-mechanical processes taking place in biological tissues. The simulation results will be informed with high resolution experimental data provided by external collaborators. The PhD student will estimate level of patterning precision as a function of growth, cellular and mechanical factors. The PhD student will actively take part in group research activities, including dissemination of project results through publications, scientific conferences, research seminars and general audience talks. scholarship #2: The PhD student will identify possible cellular mechanisms and biomechanical feedbacks affecting patterning precision in vertebrate tissues. The PhD student will derive estimates of bio-mechanical tissue properties from high resolution experimental data provided by external collaborators. The estimates will be used to inform computational models of biomechanical feedbacks. The PhD student will actively take part in group research activities, including dissemination of project results through publications, scientific conferences, research seminars and general audience talks.
*** Important dates *** Call opening: 28 April 2023 Doctoral School recruitment at Jagiellonian University: June and September 2023 Application deadline: 2 October 2023 Results: by 17 October 2023.
*** Additional information *** The NCN funded scholarship for PhD students is provided for 4-years. The group webpage: https://zagorskigroup.com/ Selected candidates will be invited for an interview. Successful candidate will be selected by a committee chaired by the project leader. The condition of successful application to Doctoral School in Polish research institution or university needs to be fulfilled to be considered in this opening. Please consult details at https://science.phd.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/start. Please contact me in advance at marcin.zagorski@uj.edu.pl to prepare application to Doctoral School at Jagiellonian University. The official announcement can be found at https://fais.uj.edu.pl/wydzial/zatrudnienie/.
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