Daniel Cooney

Right now, Professor Longhua Zhao from Case Western is giving a talk on fluid-structure interaction.

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Pattern Formation in Agent-Based and PDE Models for Evolutionary Games with Payoff-Driven Motion - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology Spatial structure can play an important role in the evolution of cooperative behavior and the achievement of collective success of a population. In this paper, we explore the role of random and direct...

New #BulletinMathBio paper by @tianyongyao.bsky.social, Chenning Xu, and @danielcooney1.bsky.social on Pattern Formation in Agent-Based and PDE Models for Evolutionary Games with Payoff-Driven Motion.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Pattern Formation in Agent-Based and PDE Models for Evolutionary Games with Payoff-Driven Motion - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology Spatial structure can play an important role in the evolution of cooperative behavior and the achievement of collective success of a population. In this paper, we explore the role of random and direct...

I am really happy to share this paper with @tianyongyao.bsky.social and Chenning Xu on Pattern Formation in Agent-Based and PDE Models for Evolutionary Games with Payoff-Driven Motion, which is now online in #BullMathBio.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Right now, John Metzcar from the Cleveland Clinic is giving a talk titled "GBM-FORECAST: Predicting recurrence in glioblastoma using serial white blood cell counts and patient advocacy influences on my career". Please see below for information to join.

I would guess that Rick Ankiel had enough success as a pitcher and hitter to have done either of these things, but I wouldn't be be particularly comfortable guessing him over the two obvious ones.

Evolutionary game theory researches: Join us for the ‘Evolutionary Games: Mathematical Theory and Biological Insights’ workshop at NITMB!

Travel applications are due Wednesday, March 11th - www.nitmb.org/evolutionary...

Congratulations, Professor @evo-eco-onco.bsky.social!

In a few minutes, Haridas Das from Oklahoma State University will be giving a talk on modeling infectious disease dynamics in metapopulations.

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I am happy to announce that the Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be returning for the Fall 2025 semester. Our talks will be held on Tuesdays at 11am US/Canada Eastern time (10am Central time).

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For a while, I was under the impression that the checkmate was named after the Arabian horse, highlighting the key role played by the knight.

(Due to that misunderstanding, I often remember it as the ``horse checkmate" when I am trying to avoid it in a game.)

Right now, Dr. Maximillian Newman (University of Chicago) is giving the first Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar talk for the spring semester, presenting on models of genetic inheritence across the genome.

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Provirus induction diversifies adaptive variation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa lysogen populations Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen that forms chronic infections in people with cystic fibrosis. Often P. aeruginosa strains are lysogens, infected with proviruses, that ...

Happy new year! The second big project of my PhD in Rachel Whitaker's lab is now up! 🎉 We look at how provirus infection affects the evolution of the bacterial chromosome with different types of viral induction – with CRISPRs or antibiotics. Take a peek 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

When I taught a mathematical biology course in Spring 2025, I used the @smbmathbiology.bsky.social baseball cards from the previous JMM as a first-day giveaway to the class.

As an optional assignment, the students could send me a paper authored by the mathematical biologist whose card they picked.

I am looking forward to buying some of the mathematical biology baseball cards from the @smbmathbiology.bsky.social booth at the JMM. @jointmath.bsky.social #JMM2026

Picture of the conference booth for the Society for Mathematical Biology, which features baseball cards of famous mathematical biologists.

SMB is at JMM! Stop by our booth (#423) to learn more about what we've been up to and to add to your SMB Baseball card collection! #JMM2026 @jointmath.bsky.social

In the last talk for the semester, Tyler Simmons from the University of Minnesota is about to give a talk on "Chemically Self-Assembled Nanorings: Therapeutic Efficacy, Response Variability, and Guiding Principles".

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Right now, Binan Gu from WPI is giving a talk on " Modeling Cell Transport in Deformable Microenvironments: From Engineered Scaffolds to the Blood–Brain Barrier".

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Hi everyone! I'm co-organizing this retreat/workshop June 15-19 for those looking to get started in mathematical/computational modeling of biological processes. Location is a beautiful farm in NC. Please share with students and others who want to build modeling skills. Interdisciplinarity welcome!

Right now, @tedloch.bsky.social from Rice University is giving a talk on a coordination game approach to studying symbiosis.

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This is such a compelling game to follow on play-by-play while taking a train in the snow back to Champaign.

Big congratulations to Dr Nikhil Sharma on receiving the Kiel Life Science Postdoc Award 2025! His outstanding work in theoretical biology and evolutionary graph theory makes us proud. Well deserved! 👏 #KLS #MPIEvolBio
www.evolbio.mpg.de/3847270/kiel...

(Photo: Christian Urban, Kiel University)

This Plasmid Project was directly inspired by the results on multilevel selection that Dan introduced me to! In this thread he explains some fundamental theoretical results that were so influential to me as a Scientist. Looking forward to more Math-driven experiments!!! Thanks Dan!

Its very exciting to see this paper out in @behavecol.bsky.social. These conversations, expertly led by @delphinedemoor.bsky.social, have really shaped how I now think about working with social network data. Check out Delphine's thread to learn more!

Postdoc position in individual-level incentives, social
learning, and payoff-biased imitation shape group-level accuracy in complex prediction and decision-making tasks in Konstanz

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I really enjoyed the discussions that led to this model, and it was really fun to think about how these kinds of multilevel selection models can describe systems ranging from replication competition between genes in cells to the evolution of cooperative social norms in complex animal societies.

Right now, Dr. Farshad Shirani from Emory University is giving a talk on "Infinite-Dimensional Dynamics, Spatiotemporal Gamma Oscillations, and Balance of Excitation and Inhibition in Cortical Networks".

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By the way, in case you are still interested in models of ecology and evolutionary biology, I am co-organizing a conference session at Boston College in March 2026 with Alex McAvoy and Thomas Zdyrski.

www.ams.org/meetings/sec...

Thanks for sharing, @blakestacey.myatproto.social. I am particularly looking forward to the chapter on invasion fitness with a pair-approximation approach, as well as the discussion on different interpretations of MLS.

Multiscale Structure in Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics In a complex system, the individual components are neither so tightly coupled or correlated that they can all be treated as a single unit, nor so uncorrelated that they can be approximated as independ...

Wow, that takes me back to an earlier research life...

arxiv.org/abs/1509.02958

Multilevel mutation-selection systems and set-valued duals - Journal of Mathematical Biology A class of measure-valued processes which model multilevel multitype populations undergoing mutation, selection, genetic drift and spatial migration is considered. We investigate the qualitative behav...

Donald Dawson also explored the behavior of the Fleming-Viot limit, using a dual process to study the extinction or survival of cooperation due to selection, mutation, and drift at both the individual and group levels.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...