Aleksandra "Ola" Karolak,
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Projects:
"Physical Dynamics of Cancer Response to Chemotherapy in 3D Microenvironments"
topic: quantify and simulate growth of 3D tumor spheroids in various and variable microenvironments and their response to chemotherapy.
joint project with experimental lab of Lisa McCawley and Dmitry Markov, Vanderbilt
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May 4th 2017 -- Moffitt Cancer Center Scientific Symposium
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June 12th 2017 -- Cancer Biology and Evolution Symposium, Moffitt Cancer Center
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2017 July 11-12th, CSBC-PSON Junior Investigator Meeting, Bethesdam MA
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2017 October 17-19th, PSON Annual Meeting, Boston, Koch Institute, MIT
"Binding and internalization of imaging agents in pancreatic cancers"
topic: quantify and simulate distribution, binding and internalization of TLR2-Cy5 targeted imaging agents in mouse models of pancreatic cancers using the dorsal window chambers experiments.
joint project with experimental lab of Dave Morse, Moffitt
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AACR Frontiers in Basic Cancer Research, Philadelphia, October 23-26 2015
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Moffitt Scientific Symposium, May 6th 2016, poster "Optimizing targeted therapies in pancreatic tumors: combining single cell simulations with intravital microscopy"
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AACR Engineering and Physical Sciences in Oncology conference, Boston, June 25-28, 2016