Another day at #SMB2025 and more CDEV-related sessions!
Be sure not to miss tomorrow's luncheon to learn more about the subgroup and meet other members!

We are excited to share the CDEV events happening this week at #smb2025 in Edmonton! In particular, looking forward to catching up during our business meeting/luncheon on Thursday 17th at noon!
@SMB_MathBiology

📣Postdoc position:📣 The Landry Lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Virginia has a position open for an interdisciplinary postdoctoral fellow. See jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R006… for more information and application details.

@nwlandry #networks #dynamicalModels

Please join our📣CDEV subgroup business meeting📣on Tuesday, July 2, from 17:45–18:15 in Rm 108 at #SMB2024. We started mock interviews, small grants, & a virtual mini-conference based on feedback at our 2023 CDEV meeting. Come share what you'd like to see next! @SMB_MathBiology

📣Travel and Childcare Grants:📣 The SMB CDEV subgroup invites applications for a few small travel and childcare grants. Applications are due May 10, 2024. See: forms.gle/ciuCCRLxghV1md… for the application form and full details. @SMB_MathBiology

📣Interdisciplinary PhD Position:📣 The Schneider Lab at the University of Potsdam has a PhD position open at the intersection of computer science, plant cell biology, and genetics. Please see the websites uni-potsdam.de/en/ppp/ and schneider-lab.de to learn more.

Thank you to all the participants, speakers, + panelists who were part of 🎉Cell and Development Festival Week 🎉, the CDEV subgroup's first virtual mini-conference! You all made it a terrific week full of research + advice, & it was great to see everyone online! @SMB_MathBiology

Going on now: Panel on the future of platforms + models, with Maria Abou Chakra (@MariaAbouChakra), Nika Shakiba (@nika_shakiba), Andrew Krause (@BlindMath), + Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan (@gonca_erdemci). Join us for the finale of Cell & Dev Festival Week: smb-celldevbio.github.io/cdevfestival/

Our last team talk is Golnaz Karoubi (@k_golnaz) + David Romero Torres from Univ of Toronto, sharing their modeling + experiments to shed light on stem cell dynamics, esp. lung lineages. Next: Cell & Dev Festival Week concludes with a panel on the future of models & platforms

Team Nika Shakiba (@nika_shakiba) from UBC & Maria Abou Chakra (@MariaAbouChakra) from UToronto talking now about combining evolutionary game theory & cell biology to determine why cells in multicellular systems compete @SMB_MathBiology. Next: Golnaz Karoubi + David Romero Torres

Andrew Krause (@BlindMath) from @durham_uni just spoke in the CDEV subgroup's Cell & Dev Festival Week, about all things #Turing pattern formation & his exciting (+ very fun!) platform @visualPDE. Check it out at visualpde.com. Now: Maria Abou Chakra + Nika Shakiba

Our last plenary speaker Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan (@gonca_erdemci) from @WesternU is sharing exciting work at the math-bio interface now, highlighting vertex modeling in collective cell migration, including in heart development. Up next: Andrew Krause (@BlindMath). @SMB_MathBiology

Join in 50 minutes (at 11 AM US Eastern/UTC-4) for the last day of Cell & Dev Festival Week! We're delighted to start today with our final plenary speaker Gonca Erdemci-Tandogan (@gonca_erdemci) from Western Univ. Register at smb-celldevbio.github.io/cdevfestival/ to join us. @SMB_MathBiology

Our last session of the CDEV subgroup's first virtual mini-conference "Cell and Dev Festival Week" is tomorrow (Thursday, March 21) at 11 AM US Eastern/UTC-4. Join us -- registration is free & still open at: smb-celldevbio.github.io/cdevfestival/. @SMB_MathBiology @TLM_Cambridge @DynamicsSIAM

We're delighted to have Katerina Kaouri (@KatKaouri) & Thomas Woolley (@ThomasEWoolley) from @cardiffuni as our 1st plenary-speaker team sharing about their collaboration & twists + turns of research at Cell & Dev Festival Week. Join us: smb-celldevbio.github.io/cdevfestival/ @SMB_MathBiology

1st-year PhD student Eleni Papafilippou from @Cambridge_Uni giving a terrific talk about tissues deforming to avoid rupture at Cell & Dev Festival Week now. Next at 8 AM US Eastern/UTC-4: our 1st plenary-talk team, Katerina Kaouri (@KatKaouri) + Thomas Woolley (@ThomasEWoolley).

Raj Hossein from @shefmathbio @sheffielduni talking now about his exciting work modeling planar polarization of cells in the developing fly wing. Up next: Eleni Papafilippou (University of Cambridge) and full schedule at: docs.google.com/document/d/1Jl… @SMB_MathBiology

Join us in 15 minutes for day 3 of Cell and Development Festival Week! We're starting off with Raj Hossein (Univ of Sheffield) who will be talking about: "Molecular to cell scale modelling of planar polarity". Register at: smb-celldevbio.github.io/cdevfestival/ to join us @SMB_MathBiology

Tomorrow's (Wednesday, Mar 20) session of the CDEV subgroup's 1st virtual mini-conference starts at 7 AM US Eastern/UTC-4. We've got 5 excellent speakers, & registration is still open at: smb-celldevbio.github.io/cdevfestival/. Thanks to all our speakers + participants so far! @SMB_MathBiology

We're delighted to have Ruth Baker (@ruth_baker) from Oxford as our 2nd plenary speaker in the virtual Cell & Dev Festival Week, talking now about identifiability of parameters in PDE models of cell cycle regulation and collective migration. @SMB_MathBiology

Shibashis Paul (@shibashis_paul) from Univ of Tennessee, Knoxville sharing now about his work modeling X chromosome inactivation. Join by registering at: smb-celldevbio.github.io/cdevfestival/. Our 2nd plenary speaker, Ruth Baker (@ruth_baker) is next at 11 AM US Eastern/UTC-4 @SMB_MathBiology

Adam MacLean (@adamlmaclean) from @USC talking now about inferring rates for epithelial mesenchymal transitions, highlighting the importance of time dynamics and intermediate states in this process. Next up: Shibashis Paul (@shibashis_paul) from Univ of Tennessee

Ander Movilla Miangolarra (@AnderMovilla) from @JohnInnesCentre talking now about dilution and recovery of epigenetic markers during DNA replication at Cell & Dev Festival Week. Join us by registering at: forms.gle/rBQXDRQ5Dv2sjf…. Next up: Adam MacLean (@adamlmaclean) from @USC

Today's session of the CDEV subgroup's first virtual mini-conference starts in just under 2 hours at 10 AM US Eastern/UTC-4! There's still time to register here: smb-celldevbio.github.io/cdevfestival/ for the Zoom links. @SMB_MathBiology @TLM_Cambridge

Happening right now: Steven ten Holder (@steventen) and Robyn Shuttleworth (@robynshutt) sharing their experience and advice in industry and startup positions in math biology. Join us by registering at: smb-celldevbio.github.io/cdevfestival/

Elizabeth Trofimenkoff from the University of Lethbridge highlighting the importance of delays in gene expression and talking about XIAP proteins related to glioblastoma now. Next up: panel on industry careers. Register at: smb-celldevbio.github.io/cdevfestival/ for Zoom links.

Bradly Alicea from the OpenWorm Foundation is talking now about a wide range of research from the DevoWorm group, including pattern formation and nested interaction networks in development. Next up: Elizabeth Trofimenkoff. Join us at: smb-celldevbio.github.io/cdevfestival/

Session 2 of the CDEV subgroup's virtual Cell and Dev Festival Week is happening now: Marc Roussel from the University of Lethbridge is speaking about a dynamical-systems perspective on transcription control. Next up: Bradly Alicea. Registration + details: smb-celldevbio.github.io/cdevfestival/

CDEV subgroup's 1st virtual mini-conference continues later today with a trio of short talks starting at 7 PM US Eastern (UTC-4), followed by a panel on industry careers. Grab dinner & join us for research + advice! Register + details at: smb-celldevbio.github.io/cdevfestival/ @SMB_MathBiology

We're delighted to have Leah Edelstein-Keshet from UBC as our first plenary speaker in the virtual Cell and Development Festival Week. Join now by registering at: smb-celldevbio.github.io/cdevfestival/ to hear about her research, career trajectory, and advice. @SMB_MathBiology

Tracy Stepien from University of Florida is talking now about using approximate Bayesian computation to select models of astrocyte migration during retinal development. Next up: our 1st plenary speaker, Leah Edelstein-Keshet. Registration & details at: smb-celldevbio.github.io/cdevfestival/

Working closely with data, Amanda Alexander from University of Houston is sharing about her models of auxotrophic bacterial consortia now in session 1 of Cell and Development Festival Week. Next up is Tracy Stepien from University of Florida. Register at: smb-celldevbio.github.io/cdevfestival/

Going on now: session 1 of Cell and Development Festival Week. Veronica Ciocanel (@v_ciocanel) is talking about parameter inference for PDEs from FRAP data. Also see her associated BullMathBiol paper in press: link.springer.com/article/10.100…. Next up: Amanda Alexander from U Houston.

Starting in 10 minutes! Veronica Ciocanel (@v_ciocanel) is kicking us off at 11 AM US Eastern/UTC-4. Still time to register (free) at: smb-celldevbio.github.io/cdevfestival/ for the CDEV subgroup's virtual Cell and Development Festival Week.

There's still time to register (free) for the SMB CDEV subgroup's first virtual mini-conference, kicking off tomorrow (March 18) with four excellent speakers in session 1 starting at 11 AM US Eastern (UTC-4). Details and registration at: smb-celldevbio.github.io/cdevfestival/. @SMB_MathBiology

📣New blog post:📣This post features Dr. Evan Curcio, who is a postdoc fellow at @CUNYSPH who recently graduated from NCSU with a thesis on biomechanics in development. Evan shares his passion for research that tears down disciplinary walls. Read more at: smb-celldevbio.github.io/2024-02-15-Cur….

📣Blog post📣 Our new post highlights Duncan Martinson, a postdoc at the Isaac Newton Institute (@NewtonInstitute). @DuncanMartinson is interested in collective behavior & shares about the importance of linking data & modeling at different scales. More at: smb-celldevbio.github.io/2024-01-11-Mar…

📣Virtual mini-conference:📣 The SMB Cell and Developmental Biology Subgroup is hosting a week of virtual minisymposia highlighting research in our community and professional development resources in March 2024. More info & registration details at: smb-celldevbio.github.io/cdevfestival/

and finally to finish the day (and almost the end of @smb__2023.. ) we have a second poster session with reception do come and chat with our presenters from @SMBdevBio

So @smb__2023 minisymposia at 4pm from @SMBdevBio are

There are also @SMBdevBio contributed talks coming up at 2:30 @smb__2023

and just to make it difficult the other option this morning at 10:30 @smb__2023 from @SMBdevBio is on biomechanics and fluid dyanamics modelling in cdev - but both should be great so you can't lose

Today we have @smb__2023 from @SMBdevBio at 10:30 in Barbie Tootle room a mini symposium on computational modelling in cdev applications.

Also some great contributed talks starting from 2:30.

At 4:00 pm in Suzanne M. Scharer Room (#3146) we have a great session on stochastic effects in cell biology.

Also at 10:30 (I know.. decisions decisions) we have a mini symposium on polarity and patterns from Adriana Dawes @DawesLab Sungrim Seirin-Lee @Seirin_Lab
and Eric Cytrynbaum @eric_cytryn.

A fantastic two part mini symposia on data-driven modelling from our own @al_volkening with @v_ciocanel @adrs0061 starting at 10:30 with talks from @dbhaskar92 , @KCookMathLab , @dcruz_mathbio , @dokmegang , @BioMathNard , and @anna_c_nelson.

Contributed talks from 2:30.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at the SMB annual meeting in Ohio this summer. Do people fancy a CDEV meet-up? Please fill in the form docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… so we can start planning!

📣Undergraduate research opportunity📣: The Sainsbury Lab at Univ. of Cambridge has positions available for 30 paid summer undergraduate researchers in plant biology, spanning wet lab to modeling. Applications reviewed on a rolling basis; for details see: slcu.cam.ac.uk/summer-research

📣CDEV blog post📣We feature Dr. Mindy Liu Perkins, a postdoc in the European Molecular Biology Lab! Her work is on gene-expression patterns, like the fushi tarazu stripes in fruit fly embryos below. Read more about Mindy's new preprint on this work at: smb-celldevbio.github.io/2023-01-19-Per…

⭐️Math-bio online workshop⭐️: The NSF-Simons Center for Multiscale Cell Fate Research at UC Irvine is holding an online BioBridge workshop in February 2023! For more details and information on how to apply, see: cellfate.uci.edu/biobridge-clin…

Congratulations to the poster and contributed talk prize winners from @SMBdevBio, as well as to everyone else who contributed to the exciting scientific program of our subgroup @smb2021!

Beyond excited for the @smb2021 minisymposium that we at @SMBdevBio are organizing together with our friends @SMBmfbm, on "Combining modeling and inference in cell biology" - hope you can join us next Wednesday for these excellent talks!

Join us in the CDEV #SMB2020 stream for the last MS "Integrating cell mechanics and cell mechanosensing" with talks by @SchwarzUlrich @FabianSpill @CarinaDunlop and @BenediktSabass

@ESmb2020 @SMB_MathBiology #MathBio #devBio

More mammalian development in afternoon starting at 13:30 EDT #SMB2020 with seminars by:

The third day of CDEV talks at #SMB2020 starts with seminars on plant development at 9:30 EDT with talks by:

Interested in "Understanding development through theory and experiment"?

Join us in the CDEV #SMB2020 stream at 11:15 EDT (today) for seminars by world leading experts: Shane Hutson, Stas Shvartsman, Celeste Nelson, and @roeland_merks #MathBio #devBio

See you all there!

The afternoon CDEV session features seminars by @jonty3502, Marcin Zagorski, and @cl0r0plast starting at 13:30 EDT #SMB2020

The second day of CDEV talks at #SMB2020 starts at 9:30 EDT with talks by:

Interested in "Shapes, patterns, and forces in developmental biology"?

Join us in the CDEV stream at 11:15 EDT (today) for seminars by early-career researchers: @rulandsgroup, Alessandra Bonfanti, Mathias Sonja, and @clintondurney #SMB2020 #MathBio #devBio

See you all there!

Followed by Nathan Weinstein, Aden Forrow, and Claus Kadelka in the afternoon seminars starting at 13:30 EDT! #SMB2020 #devBio #mathCellBio #MathBio

Excited for the @SMBdevBio stream of #SMB2020 to start tomorrow morning at 9:30 EDT with seminars by @BlindMath, @dnlobo, Jason Ko, Timothy Ostler, and @PatternsNGames! Interested in #devBio or #mathCellBio? Join us! #MathBio

Abstracts: bit.ly/30ZMBi6

Join us for "Understanding development through theory and experiment" part II of the @SMBdevBio MS #SMB2020 featuring seminars by world leading researchers in #DevBio #MathBio @ESmb2020 @SMB_MathBiology @roeland_merks

Abstracts: bit.ly/31Dedc2

Join us for "Shapes, patterns, and forces in developmental biology" part I of the @SMBdevBio MS at #SMB2020 featuring fantastic early-career researchers in #MathBio #DevBio @ESmb2020 @SMB_MathBiology @rulandsgroup @clintondurney

Abstracts: bit.ly/31WGI4P

Join us for the @SMBdevBio subgroup's #SMB2020 keynote on Thursday Aug 20 at 12:15 EDT when @MartinLabMIT lectures on "Folding tissues across length scales: Cell-based origami" @ESmb2020 @SMB_MathBiology #DevBio #MathBio