Preprints

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Collagen remodeling promotes a GPCR-mediated mechanosensory immune checkpoint in ADGRG1+ CD8+ T cells and serves as a spatial biomarker of response to immunotherapy

S. Srivastava, J. Powers, J. Mehta, S. Marzban, R. Nozaki, L. Karanam, J. Torrez, H. Bharambe, F. Faraji, R. Chaudhary, P. Bordignon, J. Giliberti, R. Slebos, J. Johnson, C. Gantenbee, X. Song, M. Cassano, J. Guevara-Patino, D. Nguyen, M. Yamauchi, J. West, C. Chung, J. Gutkind, A. Amelio, 2025

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Evolutionary antifragile therapy

J. West, B. Desai, M. Strobl, J. Gallaher, M. Robertson-Tessi, A. Marusyk, A. Anderson, 2025

6

Clonal Hematopoiesis Dynamics and Evolutionary Fitness During Cancer Treatment Impact Clinical Outcomes

M. Arabzadeh, Y. Tang, C. Colin-Leitzinger, S. Marzban, D. Walgenbach, V. Mahaganapathy, E. Harper, M. Teng, J. Kresovich, H. Parsons, J. Garber, J. West, S. Ganesan, H. Khiabanian, N. Gillis, 2025

5

Applied Antifragility in Natural Systems: Evolutionary Antifragility

C. Axenie, R. Bauer, O. Lopez Corona, E. Ramirez-Carrillo, A. Barnett, J. West, 2025

4

Feasibility of an Evolutionary Tumor Board for Generating Novel Personalized Therapeutic Strategies

M. Robertson-Tessi, J. Brown, M. Poole, M. Johnson, A. Marusyk, J. Gallaher, K. Luddy, C. Whelan, J. West, M. Strobl, V. Turati, H. Enderling, M. Schell, A. Tan, T. Boyle, R. Makanji, J. Farinhas, H. Soliman, D. Lemanne, R. Gatenby, D. Reed, A. Anderson, C. Chung, 2023

3

Local contact inhibition leads to universal principles of cell population growth

G. Kimmel, J. West, M. Damaghi, A. Anderson, P. Altrock, 2022

2

Antifragile Therapy

J. West, B. Desai, M. Strobl, L. Pierik, R. Vander Velde, C. Armagost, R. Miles, M. Robertson-Tessi, A. Marusyk, A. Anderson, 2020

1

Macrophage-mediated immunoediting drives ductal carcinoma evolution: Space is the game changer

C. Gatenbee, J. West, M. Robertson-Tessi, A. Baker, N. Guljar, T. Graham, A. Anderson, 2018



Peer-reviewed publications


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Cell State Transitions Drive the Evolution of Disease Progression in B-Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Cancer Research Communications

C. Gravenmier, S. Marzban, Y. Tang, N. Gillis, B. Shah, L. Moscinski, L. Zhang, J. West, 2026

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Mathematical Oncology: How Modeling Is Transforming Clinical Decision-Making

Cancer Research

K. Scibilia, K. Gallagher, M. Masud, M. Robertson-Tessi, C. Gatenbee, J. West, P. Llamas, S. Prabhakaran, J. Gallaher, A. Anderson, 2025

33

Evolutionary Double-Bind Treatment Using Radiation Therapy and Natural Killer Cell-Based Immunotherapy in Prostate Cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics

K. Luddy, J. West, M. Robertson-Tessi, B. Desai, A. Ojeda, H. Newman, V. Estrella, T. Bursell, S. Barrett, J. O'Sullivan, L. Marignol, R. Gatenby, J. Brown, A. Anderson, C. O'Farrelly, 2025

32

Spatial interactions modulate tumor growth and immune infiltration

npj Systems Biology & Applications

S. Marzban, S. Srivastava, S. Kartika, R. Bravo, R. Safriel, A. Zarski, A. Anderson, C. Chung, A. Amelio, J. West, 2024

31

Antifragility in complex dynamical systems

npjComplexity

C. Axenie, O. López-Corona, M. Makridis, M. Akbarzadeh, M. Saveriano, A. Stancu, J. West, 2024

30

Defining and Addressing Research Priorities in Cancer Cachexia through Transdisciplinary Collaboration

Cancers

M. Park, C. Whelan, S. Ahmed, T. Boeringer, J. Brown, S. Crowder, C. Gregg, H. Jim, A. Judge, T. Mason, N. Parker, S. Pillai, S. Rajasekhara, G. Rasool, S. Tinsley, M. Schabath, P. Stewart, J. West, P. McDonald, J. Permuth, 2024

29

To modulate or to skip: De-escalating PARP inhibitor maintenance therapy in ovarian cancer using adaptive therapy

Cell Systems

M. Strobl, A. Martin, J. West, J. Gallaher, M. Robertson-Tessi, R. Gatenby, R. Wenham, P. Maini, M. Damaghi, A. Anderson, 2024

28

Second-order effects of chemotherapy pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics on tumor regression and cachexia

Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

L. Pierik, P. McDonald, A. Anderson, J. West, 2024

27

Tumor-immune metaphenotypes orchestrate an evolutionary bottleneck that promotes metabolic transformation

Frontiers in Immunology

J. West, F. Rentzeperis, C. Adam, R. Bravo, K. Luddy, M. Robertson-Tessi, A. Anderson, 2024

26

Treatment of evolving cancers will require dynamic decision support

Annals of Oncology

M. Strobl, J. Gallaher, M. Robertson-Tessi, J. West, A. Anderson, 2023

25

Games and the treatment convexity of cancer

Dynamics Games & Applications

P. Bayer, J. West, 2023

24

A pilot study of donor-engrafted clonal hematopoiesis evolution and clinical outcomes in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant recipients using a national registry

Transplantation and Cellular Therapy

N. Gillis, E. Padron, T. Wang, K. Chen, S. Spellman, S. Lee, C. Kitko, M. MacMillan, J. West, Y. Tang, M. Teng, S. McNulty, T. Druley, J. Pidala, A. Lazaryan, 2023

23

Inter- and intra-metastatic heterogeneity shapes adaptive therapy cycling dynamics

J. Gallaher, M. Strobl, J. West, J. Zhang, R. Gatenby, M. Robertson-Tessi, A. Anderson, 2023

22

A survey of open questions in adaptive therapy: bridging mathematics and clinical translation

eLife

J. West, F. Adler, J. Gallaher, M. Strobl, R. Brady-Nicholls, J. Brown, M. Robertson-Tessi, E. Kim, R. Noble, Y. Viossat, D. Basanta, A. Anderson, 2023

20

Agent-based methods facilitate integrative science in cancer

Trends in Cell Biology

J. West, M. Robertson-Tessi, A. Anderson, 2022

19

Homeostasis limits keratinocyte evolution

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

R. Schenck, E. Kim, R. Bravo, J. West, S. Leedham, D. Shibata, A. Anderson, 2022

18

Mistic: an open-source multiplexed image t-SNE viewer

Patterns

S. Prabhakaran, C. Gatenbee, M. Robertson-Tessi, J. West, A. Beg, J. Gray, S. Antonia, R. Gatenby, A. Anderson, 2022

17

Spatial structure impacts adaptive therapy by shaping intra-tumoral competition

Communications Medicine

M. Strobl, J. Gallaher, J. West, M. Robertson-Tessi, P. Maini, A. Anderson, 2022

16

Immunosuppressive niche engineering at the onset of human colorectal cancer

Nature Communications

C. Gatenbee, A. Baker, R. Schenck, M. Strobl, J. West, M. Neves, S. Hasan, E. Lakatos, P. Martinez, W. Cross, M. Jansen, M. Rodriguez-Justo, C. Whelan, A. Sottoriva, S. Leedham, M. Robertson-Tessi, T. Graham, A. Anderson, 2022

15

Gattaca: Base pair resolution mutation tracking for somatic evolution studies using agent-based models

Molecular Biology and Evolution

R. Schenck, G. Brosula, J. West, S. Leedham, D. Shibata, A. Anderson, 2022

14

Normal tissue architecture determines the evolutionary course of cancer

Nature Communications

J. West, R. Schenck, C. Gatenbee, M. Roberston-Tessi, A. Anderson, 2021

13

Turnover modulates the need for a cost of resistance in adaptive therapy

Cancer Research

M. Strobl, J. West, Y. Viossat, M. Damaghi, M. Robertson-Tessi, J. Brown, R. Gatenby, P. Maini, A. Anderson, 2021

12

The harsh microenvironment in early breast cancer selects for a Warburg phenotype

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

M. Damaghi, J. West, M. Robertson-Tessi, Liping Xu, M. Ferrall-Fairbanks, P. Stewart, E. Persi, B. Fridley, P. Altrock, R. Gatenby, P. Sims, A. Anderson, R. Gillies, 2021

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Towards multi-drug adaptive therapy

Cancer Research

J. West, L. You, J. Zhang, R.A. Gatenby, J. Brown, P.K. Newton, A. Anderson, 2020

9

Hybrid Automata Library: A flexible platform for hybrid modeling with real-time visualization

PLOS Computational Biology

R. Bravo, E. Baratchart, J. West, R. Schenck, A. Miller, J. Gallaher, C. Gatenbee, D. Basanta, M. Robertson-Tessi, A. Anderson, 2020

8

Multidrug cancer therapy in metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer: An evolution-based strategy

Clinical Cancer Research

J. West, M. Dinh, J. Brown, J. Zhang, A. Anderson, R. Gatenby, 2019

7

The immune checkpoint kick start: Optimization of neoadjuvant combination therapy using game theory

Journal of Clinical Oncology: Clinical Cancer Informatics

J. West, M. Robertson-Tessi, K. Luddy, D. Park, D. Williamson, C. Harmon, H. Khong, J. Brown, A. Anderson, 2019

6

Cellular interactions constrain tumor growth

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

J. West, P. Newton, 2019

3

The prisoner's dilemma as a cancer model

Convergent Science: Physical Oncology

J. West, Z. Hasnain, J. Mason, P. Newton, 2016

1

Experiments comparing precision of stereo-vision approaches for control of an industrial manipulator

Spring Tracts in Advanced Robotics

J. Yoder, J. West, E. Baumgartner, M. Perrollaz, M. Seelinger, M. Robinson, 2013



Technical reports


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Evolutionary exploitation of PD-L1 expression in hormone receptor positive breast cancer

J. West, D. Park, C. Harmon, D. Williamson, P. Ashcroft, D. Maestrini, A. Ardaseva, R. Bravo, P. Sahoo, H. Khong, K. Luddy, M. Robertson-Tessi, 2018

5

Optimizing chemo-scheduling based on tumor growth rates

Mathematical Oncology Handbook

J. West, P. Newton, 2018

4

Competitive release in tumors

Mathematical Oncology Handbook

Y. Ma, J. West, P. Newton, 2018

3

Targeting the Untargetable: Predicting Pramlintide Resistance Using a Neural Network Based Cellular Automata

E. Kim, R. Schenck, J. West, W. Cross, V. Harris, J. McKenna, H. Cho, E. Coker, S. Lee-Kramer, K. Tsai, E. Flores, C. Gatenbee, 2017

2

A Fuzzy Logic approach to collision avoidance in smart UAVs

Technical Report #CSSE12-05, Auburn University

Y. Ma, J. West, P. Newton, 2012

1

Urban Food Production season extension techniques

Internship Program (ORIP) Technical Report

J. West, P. Ling, P. Grewal, 2010