Rejniak Lab News

* 2016 December 5-7th, research visit to Moffitt/IMO of Ms. Meng Sun from M. Zaman group at Boston Univerity.

* 2016 November 28-29th, Northeast Physical Sciences Oncology Symposium, Boston; poster presentations by Aleksandra Karolak.

* 2016 November 14-16, research visit to Vanderbilt Uniersity to work with Drs. Lisa McCawley and Dmitry Markov on our PSON-U01 grant. Kasia will also give a seminar talk "Up close and personal with drug delivery: in silico modeling of tumor organoids".

* 2016 November 4th, MCOM’s Scholarly Concentration Student Symposium USF, Mr. Rupin Singh will present results of our collaboration with Drs. Wiranowska and Alcantar from USF.

* 2016 October 31-November 2nd, research visit to Uniersity of Richmond to work with Dr. Ami Radunskaya on a new textbook.

* 2016 October 15-19th, research visit to Moffitt/IMO of Dr. Judith Perez-Velazquez, University of Munich, Germany.

* 2016 October 13th, a book "Systems Biology of Tumor Microenvironment" edited by Kasia Rejniak has been published as an e-book by Springer.

* 2016 October 6th, an inauguration of a joint PIC Math (Preparation for Industrial Careers in Mathematical Sciences) project with Dr. Necibe Tuncer from Florida Atlantic University, part of her grant funded by Mathematical Association of America (MAA).

* 2016 October 6th, research visit to Moffitt/IMO of Dr. Necibe Tuncer, the Florida Atlantic University.

* 2016 August 30th, our new paper ""Limiting the Development of Anti-Cancer Drug Resistance in a Spatial Model of Micrometastases" with Jana Gevertz and Ami Shah has been published in Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering.

* 2016 August 29-31st, Physical Sciences Oncology Network (PS-ON) & Cancer Systems Biology Consortium (CSBC) joint meeting, NCI Shady Grove campus, Rockville, Maryland, our work was presented in a joint poster with collaborators from Vanderbilt Univeristy.

* 2016 August 4th, Final presentation of the HIP-IMO program. Sam Lee and Saharsh Agrawal present the results of their 10-week research with our group.

* 2016 July 11th, Ms. Laura Depner, a graduate student at the Oxford University in UK, has joint our lab as an intern.

* 2016 July 11-15th, SMB-ECMTB meeting, Nottingham UK; invited talks presented by Aleksandra Karolak and Kasia Rejniak.

* 2016 July 2-5th, AIMS bi-annual meeting, Orlando, FL; an invited talk presented by Aleksandra Karolak.

* 2016 June 30th & July 7th, HIP-IMO Journal Club, Tampa, FL; paper discussion presented by Sam Lee and Saharsh Agrawal.

* 2016 June 25-28th, AACR Engineering and Physical Sciences in Oncology meeting, Boston; poster presentations by Aleksandra Karolak and Kasia Rejniak.

* 2016 June 13th-August 5th, Second Annual High School Summer Program HIP-IMO. Our group will host two high school students that will participate in research projects under the guidance of Kasia and Aleksandra.

* 2016 May 20th, Mr. Rupin Singh, a medical student at the University of South Florida, has joint our lab as a summer intern.

* 2016 May 10th, IMO Research-in-Progress seminar: current research results were presented by Aleksandra Karolak.

* 2016 May 6th, Moffitt Cancer Center Scientific Symposium, Tampa, FL. Poster presentation by Aleksandra Karolak and Branton Huffstutler.

* 2016 April 11th, Mr. Elliot Nelson, a graduate student at the Oxford University in UK, has joint our lab as an intern. He will visit our lab April 25-May 2nd.

* 2016 April 3-6th, an inaugural meeting on Systems Approaches to Cancer Biology, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. Our work will be presented by Aleksandra Karolak.

* 2016 March 9th, 15th annual DCB New Grantee Workshop, Division of Cancer Biology of the National Cancer Institute, NCI Shady Grove campus, Rockville, Maryland, will be attended by Kasia Rejniak.

* 2016 March 8th, a pre-print of our new paper is available on bioRxiv.

* 2016 February 23rd, high school students from the Academy of the Lakes at Tampa visited IMO to learn more about how to use mathematics in cancer research. Kasia Rejniak gave one of the lectures and hands-on modeling excercises.

* 2016 February 2-3rd, Physical Sciences Oncology Network PS-ON Kickoff Meeting & NCI Physical Sciences-Oncology Symposium, NCI Shady Grove campus, Rockville, Maryland, our work was presented by Kasia Rejniak.

* 2016 January 21st, Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine (MINM) seminar: current research results were presented by Aleksandra Karolak.

* 2016 January 12th, IMO Research-in-Progress seminar: current research results were presented by Aleksandra Karolak.

* 2016 January, our trans-disciplinary work on Virtual Clinical Trials "Virtuoso" in collaboration with Damon Reed, Marilyn Bui and Mark Lloyd has been featured in Atlas Of Scince.

* 2016 January, Inside Science News Service has asked Kasia Rejniak for a comment on a model of the circulating tumor cells by Takeishi and collaborators, recently published in Physical Review E.

 

 

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November 28-29th 2016, First Northeast Physical Sciences Oncology Symposium, Boston

a poster "Imaged-based computational predictions of imaging agent efficacy in pancreatic tumors espressing TLR2" in collaboration with Dave Morse lab was presented by Aleksandra Karolak.

 

2016 November 4th, MCOM’s Scholarly Concentration Student Symposium US., Mr. Rupin Singh will give a talk "Cross-disciplinary Optimization of Nano-Drug Delivery to Ovarian Carcinoma and Glioma Cells" presenting results of our collaboration with Drs. Wiranowska and Alcantar from USF.
 

 

 

2016 October 13th, a book "Systems Biology of Tumor Microenvironment", edited by K.A. Rejniak has been published as an e-book by Springer, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology series, ISBN 978-3-319-42023-3, link to the book

Two contributed chapters “Microenvironmental Niches and Sanctuaries: a Route to Acquired Resistance” and “Circulating Tumor Cells: When Solid tumor Meets Fluid Microenvironment” co-authored by Aleksandra Karolak and Kasia Rejniak are included in this book.

 

2016 October 6th, an inauguration of a joint PIC Math (Preparation for Industrial Careers in Mathematical Sciences) project at the Florida Atlantic University.

"Mathematics in Cancer Research - MAT 4930" in collaboration with Dr. Necibe Tuncer, part of her PIC-Math grant funded by Mathematical Association of America (MAA).

 

2016 August 30th, our new paper "Limiting the Development of Anti-Cancer Drug Resistance in a Spatial Model of Micrometastases" with Jana Gevertz and Ami Shah both from the College of New Jersey has been published in Mathematical Biosciences & Engineering; link to the paper

 

August 4th 2016, HIP-IMO Final presentations
Sam Lee presented: "Optimizing the Efficacy of Cytotoxic T-Lymphocytes in Immunotherapy via Computational Modeling". Saharsh Agrawal presented "Hide & Seek: Cell Strategies to Survive in Chemotherapy". Great job, Sam & Saharsh!

 

 

2016 July 11th, Ms. Laura Depner joins our lab as a graduate student intern for a rotation research project. Laura is a graduate student at the Systems Approaches to Biomedical Science program at the Oxford University in UK. She will work on a "Mechanobiology of Circulating Tumor Cells" project in collaboration with Drs. Helen Byrne and Philip Maini from Oxford.

 

2016 July 11-15th, a joint meetimng of the Society of Mathematical Biology and the European Society of Mathematical and Theoretical Biology SMB-ECMTB-2016 Nottingham, UK

An invited talk “Quantitative intravital image-based modeling of targeted nanoparticle delivery and cellular uptake” has been given by Aleksandra Karolak as a part of the minisymposium: Drug delivery modeling: from intracellular processes to tissue scale effects.

A talk “Analisys of cell lineage in the microenvironment-driven emergence of drug resistance” has been given by Kasia Rejniak as a part of the minisymposium: Drug delivery modeling: from intracellular processes to tissue scale effects.

 

2016 July 2-5th, AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, Orlando, Florida

An invited talk “Tailoring delivery of targeted therapy to the tumor: a study in a pancreatic cancer and TLR2” has been given by Aleksandra Karolak as a part of the minisymposium: Mathematical Oncology.

 

June 30th & July 7th 2016, HIP-IMO Journal Club

Sam Lee discussed a PNAS publication in a presentation entitled: "Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes and their journey towards becoming efficient serial killers". Saharsh Agrawal discussed a PNAS publication in a presentation entitled: "Cell motility and drug gradients". Great job, Sam & Saharsh!

 

June 25-28th 2016 AACR Engineering and Physical Sciences in Oncology conference, Boston

a poster "Imaged-based computational predictions of imaging agent efficacy in pancreatic tumors espressing TLR2" in collaboration with Dave Morse lab was presented by Aleksandra Karolak.

a poster "Tumor-Matrix Interactions in Early Ductal Invasions: Integrating Histology Images with Computational Modeling" in collaboration with Marilyn Bui and the Micriscopy Core was presented by Kasia Rejniak.

 

 

2016 June 13th, Ms. Samantha Lee and Mr. Saharsh Agrawal join our lab as summer high school student interns participating in the High School Internship Program HIP @IMO program.

 

2016 May 20th, Mr. Rupin Singh joins our lab as a summer student intern for a project "Cross-disciplinary Optimization of Nano-Drug Delivery to Glioma Cells" in collaboration with Dr. Marzenna Wiranowska and Dr. Norma Alcantar from University of South Florida.

 

2016 May 10th, IMO Research-in-Progress weekly seminar: Aleksandra Karolak has presented her work: “Overcoming tumor tisse heterogeneity: towards efficient single-cell delivery” in collaboration with Dave Morse lab.

 

May 6th 2016 -- Moffitt Cancer Center Scientific Symposium

Aleksandra Karolak has presented a poster "Optimizing targeted therapies in pancreatic tumors: combining single cell simulations with intravital microscopy".

Branton Huffstutler presented a poster "C3PO/R2D2: A novel model for predicting response of 3D tumors based on 2D IC50 curves"

 

 

2016 April 11th, Mr. Elliot Nelson joins our lab as a graduate student intern for a rotation research project. Elliot is a graduate student at the Systems Approaches to Biomedical Science program at the Oxford University in UK. He will work on a "Mechanobiology of Circulating Tumor Cells" project in collaboration with Dr. Helen Byrne from Oxford.

 

2016 April 3-6th, an inaugural meeting on Systems Approaches to Cancer Biology, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. Our work "Targeting solid tumors - a microscopic perspective in treatment optimization" will be presented by Aleksandra Karolak. Link to conference website.

 

2016 March 8th, a pre-print of our new work "Limiting the Development of Anti-Cancer Drug Resistance in a Spatial Model of Micrometastases" with Jana Gevertz and Ami Shah both from the College of New Jersey is now available on bioRaxiv!

 

2016 February 23rd, the Academy of the Lakes students visited the IMO.

The high school students from the Academy of the Lakes at Tampa participated in the hands-on exercises in cancer modeling given by Kasia Rejniak and engaded in a lively discussion on desiging effective in silico therapies.

 

2016 January 12th, IMO Research-in-Progress weekly seminar: Aleksandra Karolak has presented her work: "Targeting cancer: image-based modeling of targeted nanoparticle transport and uptake in solid tumors" in collaboration with Dave Morse lab.

2016 January 21st, Molecular Imaging and Nanomedicine (MINM) Research-in-Progress weekly seminar: Aleksandra Karolak has presented her work: “Targeting solid tumors: a microscopic perspective in treatment optimization” in collaboration with Dave Morse lab.

 

2016 January, our trans-disciplinary translational work on Virtual Clinical Trials "Virtuoso" in collaboration with Damon Reed, Marilyn Bui and Mark Lloyd has been featured in the Atlas of Science. Link to the Atlas Of Science publication.

 

2016 January, Inside Science News Service has asked Kasia Rejniak for a comment on a mathematical model of the circulating tumor cells by Takeishi and collaborators, that has recently been published in Physical Review E. Link to the Inside Science article with our comments.