Rejniak Moffitt Research Lab

* 2013 December 14-18, ASCB Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, an invited talk presented by Kasia Rejniak.

* 2013 November 8th, Our research on pharmaco-mechanics has been featured at the Miles for Moffitt facebook page.

* 2013 November 5th, Moffitt ACS-IRG grant "Therapeutic agent penetration in pancreatic tumors: an interdisciplinary model" has been awarded to Kasia Rejniak in collaboration with Dr. David Morse laboratory.

* 2013 October 29th, our new paper: "Current advances in mathematical modeling of anti-cancer drug penetration into tumor tissues" has been published in Frontiers in Pharmacology of Anti-Cancer Drugs.

* 2013 October, our new eBook: "Computational Models in Oncology: from Tumor Initiation to Progression to Treatment" edited by Kasia Rejniak has been published by Frontiers in Oncology.

* 2013 September 18-22, AACR Frontiers in Basic Cancer Research, National Harbor, MD, a poster presnetation by Kasia Rejniak.

* 2013 September 9-13, WhAM!, Women in Applied Mathematics Research Collaboration Workshop, a Tumor Resistance Team has been led by Kasia Rejniak.

* 2013 July 31-August 2, research visit to Moffitt/IMO by Dr. Jana Gevertz, The College of New Jersey.

* 2013 July 17-24, PASI Workshop "From Cells to Ecosystems: Frontiers in Collaborative Quantitative Physics-Based Multiscale Modeling of Biological Processes, Porto Alegre, Brazil, two lecures have been given by Kasia Rejniak.

* 2013 June 24th, Kasia Rejniak's research visit at the Mayo Clinic, Tumor Microenvironment Laboratory, Jacksonville, Florida.

* 2013 June 10-13, SMB Annual Meeting, Tempe, Arizona, our research has been presented by MunJu Kim.

* 2013 June 5-7, NIMBioS Workshop on "Modeling blood cell interactions", Knoxville, Tennessee, our work has been presented by Kasia Rejniak.

* 2013 May 13th, Moffitt Cancer Center, Cancer Biology & Evolution Program ~ Research in Progress talk by Kasia Rejniak.

* 2013 May 1-July 26, research visit to Moffitt/IMO of Dr. Marta Garcia Vivanco, CIEMAT, Spain.

* 2013 April 23-27, CSH Conference on Cancer Biology & Therapeutics, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York; our work has been presented in a podium talk by MunJu Kim and a poster presentation by Kasia Rejniak.

* 2013 April 22nd, our new paper: "The role of tumor tissue architecture on treatment penetration and efficacy: an integrative study" has been published in Frontiers in Oncology.

* 2013 April 17-19, PSOC Annual Meeting, Scottsdale, Arizona, an invited talk presented by Kasia Rejniak & a poster presented by MunJu Kim.

* 2013 April 6-10, AACR Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

* 2013 March 21st, Kasia Rejniak's research visit at the Biomedical Optics Laboratory, University of Florida Biomedical Engineering Department, Gainesville, Florida.

* 2013 March 14th, Kasia Rejniak's research visit to Pomona College, Claremont, California.

* 2013 January 24th, MINM Moffitt Retreat, Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine Retreat, an invited talk by Kasia Rejniak.

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2013 December 14-18, American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA

An invted talk "Modeling tumor-microenvironment interactions under treatment: a computational study on pancreatic cancers" has been presented by Kasia Rejniak in the Minisymposium "Tumor microenvironment as a driver and target in cancer progression."

Our research on pharmaco-mechanics has been featured at the Miles for Moffitt Facebook page

2013 November, American Cancer Society - Institutional Research Grant (ASC-IRG) awarded to Kasia Rejniak for a project: "Therapeutic agent penetration in pancreatic tumors: an interdisciplinary model" in collaboration with Dr. David Morse laboratory.

2013 October, a review paper "Current advances in mathematical modeling of anti-cancer drug penetration into tumor tissues" by MunJu Kim, Bob Gillies and Kasia Rejniak, has been published in Frontiers in Pharmacology of Anti-Cancer Drugs.

2013 October, our eBook "Computational Models in Oncology: from Tumor Initiation to Progression to Treatment" edited by Kasia Rejniak and Heiko Enderling and containing 21 research and review papers has been published as a special Topic of Frontiers in Oncology, open access.

2013 September 18-22, AACR Frontiers in Basic Cancer Research, National Harbor, MD

A poster: "The interplay between hypoxia-activated drugs and the microenvironment in pancreatic cancers: a computational study" has been presented by Kasia Rejniak in collaboration with Jonathan Wojtkowiak, MunJu Kim and Robert Gillies.

2013 September 9-13, WhAM! Women in Applied Mathematics Research Collaboration Workshop, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA), Minneapolis, MN

Kasia Rejniak will lead a project: “Anti-cancer drug resistance: a pre-existing or emerging phenomenon?” The Tumor Resistance team from left to right: Judith, Jana, Alexandria, Kerri-Ann, Kasia & Zahra

2013 July 8-26, NSF-PASI Workshop "From Cells to Ecosystems: Frontiers in Collaborative Quantitative Physics-Based Multiscale Modeling of Biological Processes, Pan-American Advance Studies Institute, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Kasia Rejniak will give two lectures and two hands-on computer laboratories in (1) “Modeling of anticancer treatments: a 2D clonogenic assay analogue” and (2) “Modeling of anticancer treatments: a histology based model of tumor microenvironment.”

2013 June 10-13, Annual Meeting of the Society of Mathematical Biology, Tempe, AZ

MunJu Kim has co-organized a minisymposium "Agent-based simulations in oncology: applications to therapeutics" with four invited speakers, including MunJu Kim's talk: "The formation of tight tumor clusters affects the efficacy of cell cycle inhibitors".

2013 June 5-7, NIMBioS Workshop on "Modeling blood cell interactions", National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, Knoxville, TN

Kasia has led a discussion session on "Hematogeneous metastasis of cancer" and gave a podium talk: "Circulating tumor cells deformation modulate" its interactions with endothelium: in silico study."

2013 April 23-27, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Bi-Annual Meeting and Conference on Cancer Biology & Therapeutics

MunJu Kim's poster application "Multicellular spatial organization affects the efficacy of cell cycle inhibitors: an insight from a hybrid computational model" has been selected as a podium talk.

Kasia Rejniak has presented a poster "Efficacy and optimization of drug and biomarker penetration into the tissues: a computational study."

Kasia Rejniak and Michael Hance Kasia Rejniak, MunJu Kim and Michael Hance

2013 April, our paper "The role of tumor tissue architecture on treatment penetration and efficacy: an integrative study" by Kasia Rejniak, Veronica Estrella,Tingan Chen, Allison Cohen, Mark Lloyd and David Morse, has been published in Frontiers in Oncology.

2013 March 14, Pi-day at Pomona College, Claremont, CA, during Kasia Rejniak's research visit.

Invited colloquium talk at the CCMC~Claremont Colleges Mathematics Colloquia, "Do drugs reach their target? A regularized Stokeslets model of tumor tissue penetration" by Kasia Rejniak.

2013 January 24, Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine Retreat, Moffitt

Invited talk "Math modeling of tumor penetration an uptake" by Kasia Rejniak.

	2013 December 14-18, American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
An invted talk "Modeling tumor-microenvironment interactions under treatment: a computational study on pancreatic cancers" has been presented by Kasia Rejniak in the Minisymposium "Tumor microenvironment as a driver and target in cancer progression."

	2013 September 18-22, AACR Frontiers in Basic Cancer Research, National Harbor, MD
A poster: "The interplay between hypoxia-activated drugs and the microenvironment in pancreatic cancers: a computational study" has been presented by Kasia Rejniak in collaboration with Jonathan Wojtkowiak, MunJu Kim and Robert Gillies.

	2013 July 8-26, NSF-PASI Workshop "From Cells to Ecosystems: Frontiers in Collaborative Quantitative Physics-Based Multiscale Modeling of Biological Processes, Pan-American Advance Studies Institute, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Kasia Rejniak will give two lectures and two hands-on computer laboratories in (1) “Modeling of anticancer treatments: a 2D clonogenic assay analogue” and (2) “Modeling of anticancer treatments: a histology based model of tumor microenvironment.”

	2013 June 10-13, Annual Meeting of the Society of Mathematical Biology, Tempe, AZ
MunJu Kim has co-organized a minisymposium "Agent-based simulations in oncology: applications to therapeutics" with four invited speakers, including MunJu Kim's talk: "The formation of tight tumor clusters affects the efficacy of cell cycle inhibitors".

	2013 June 5-7, NIMBioS Workshop on "Modeling blood cell interactions", National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, Knoxville, TN
Kasia has led a discussion session on "Hematogeneous metastasis of cancer" and gave a podium talk: "Circulating tumor cells deformation modulate" its interactions with endothelium: in silico study."

	2013 April 23-27, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Bi-Annual Meeting and Conference on Cancer Biology & Therapeutics
	MunJu Kim's poster application "Multicellular spatial organization affects the efficacy of cell cycle inhibitors: an insight from a hybrid computational model" has been selected as a podium talk.
	Kasia Rejniak has presented a poster "Efficacy and optimization of drug and biomarker penetration into the tissues: a computational study."


Kasia Rejniak and Michael Hance	Kasia Rejniak, MunJu Kim and Michael Hance

	2013 March 14, Pi-day at Pomona College, Claremont, CA, during Kasia Rejniak's research visit.
Invited colloquium talk at the CCMC~Claremont Colleges Mathematics Colloquia, "Do drugs reach their target? A regularized Stokeslets model of tumor tissue penetration" by Kasia Rejniak.

	2013 January 24, Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine Retreat, Moffitt
Invited talk "Math modeling of tumor penetration an uptake" by Kasia Rejniak.