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ICMS Cancer Workshop was a Success!

Posted by Paul Macklin

31 March 2007 at 6:35 AM PDT (UTC +?)

We just wrapped up the Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Cancer Invasion of Tissues workshop in Dundee, Scotland. It was a fantastic workshop, with a great mixture of mathematical modelers and biologists. I got to meet many new friends and colleagues from the European and U.S. cancer modeling community, and I look forward to keeping in touch with them.

In spite of initial jitters, my talk (Nonlinear simulation of centimeter-scale tumor growth into realistic tissue) went very well on Tuesday. The audience asked some great questions, and in further discussions, I received a lot of helpful feedback that I will use to improve the model and the numerics. I'm very excited for the future of our work, and the insightful comments from my new friends will help me quite a lot!

John Lowengrub and I had a chance to catch up on work with our collaborators (Sandy Anderson, Mark Chaplain, and Steven McDougall), and we hope to make rapid progress on our first joint paper. To that end, I'm working in Edinburgh this week with Steven McDougall to complete the coupling of our angiogenesis and cancer invasion software packages. It should be a very exciting few days!

Of course, work also continues on our J. Sci. Comput. and J. Math. Biol. papers. I hope to get those drafts done pretty soon, particularly given the fact that they are the next two chapters of my dissertation!!! :-)