* 2010 December, new book chapter published: "Evolution, regulation and disruption of homeostasis and its role in carcinogenesis" by A. Anderson, D. Basanta, P. Gerlee and Kasia Rejniak.
* 2010 November 5, PS-OC NCI site visit, poster presentations of our work by Tedman Torres and Kasia Rejniak in collaboration with Heather Cornnell, and by Yoonseok Kam in collaboration with our group.
* 2010 27-28 2010, 8th Annual Meeting of National Functional Genomic Center, Clearwater Beach, FL, poster presentation by Yoonseok Kam in collaboration with our group.
* 2010 September 15, REBMI conference, Research Experiences at the Biology-Mathematics Interface conference, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA, poster presentation by our undergraguate summer interns Sara Dawit & Dandre Allison.
* 2010 September 7-11, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, MBI “Bootcamp on Cancer Modeling”, co-organized by Kasia Rejniak.
* 2010 August 9-13, Fluid Motion Driven by Immersed Structures Workshop, Fields Institute Toronto, Canada, poster presentation of our work by Tedman Torres.
* 2010 August 9-13, MAA-MathFest 2010, The Mathematical Association of America MathFest, Pittsburgh, USA, invited presentation by Kasia Rejniak.
* 2010 August, our new paper published: "Linking changes in epithelial morphogenesis to cancer mutations using computational modeling" in PLoS computational Biology.
* 2010 July, NIH/NCI Moffitt PS-OC Pilot Grant Award: "Forcing the way to metastasis: physical interactions between tumor cells and endothelial walls" funded!
* 2010 July 12-15, SIAM-Life Sciences, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Life Sciences Section, Pittsburgh, USA, poster presentation of our work by Tedman Torres, and an invited talk by Kasia Rejniak.
* 2010 June 1st-July 31st, Summer Research Interdisciplinary Training, Moffitt Cancer Center & Clarement Colleges.
* 2010 April 17-21, AACR Annual Meeting 2010, American Association for Cancer Research, Washington DC, poster presented by Yoonseok Kam in collaboration with our group.
* 2010 April 5-7, PS-OC Annual Meeting, Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers Annual Meeting, Washington DC, poster presentations by Kieran Smalley and Heather Cornnell in collaboration with our group.
* 2010 March 20-21, SIAM-SEAS Conference, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics Southeastern-Atlantic Section Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, two invited talks by Kasia Rejniak.
* 2010 February, our new paper: "Current trends in mathematical modeling of tumor-microenvironment interactions: a survey of tools and applications" by Kasia Rejniak and Lisa McCawley (Vanderbilt) has been published in Experimental Biology and Medicine.
* 2010 February, Kasia Rejniak's visit to the Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina.
2010 September 7-11, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
The MBI bootcamp on Cancer Modeling has been co-organized by Drs. Helen Byrne, Mark Chapain, Reinhard Laubenbacher and Kasia Rejniak. The bootcamp was aimed to provide a tutorial, from both biological and mathematical perspecitives, and an overview of the current state-of-the-art in cancer modeling in radiotheraphy, signaling pathways and tumor development. The tumor development hands-on computational laboratory was also conducted by Kasia Rejniak.
2010 August, "Linking changes in epithelial morphogenesis to cancer mutations using computational modeling" by Rejniak et al. has been published in PLoS Computational Biology, open access
2010 July, NIH/NCI Moffitt PS-OC Pilot Grant Award for the proposal: "Forcing the way to metastasis: physical interactions between tumor cells and endothelial walls."
Project Summary: a cross-disciplinary summer research project involved 3D in vitro co-culture experiment of B16 melanoma cells and B16-specific pmel T cells, together with developing 3D computer simulations for testing tumor cells-T cells interactions.
2010 March 20-21, SIAM-SEAS Conference, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics Southeastern-Atlantic Section Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina
Two invited talks have beenpresented by Kasia Rejniak: (1) “Biomechanics of epithelial tissue formation and its malignant transformation”, part of the minisymposium “Modeling in Biomechanics and Bioengineering”; (2) “A Bio-mechanical model of tumor invasion: the role of intracellular heterogeneity”, part of the minisymposium “Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems.”
