@smbmathbiology.bsky.social
The SMB is dedicated to the advancement of research at the interface between the mathematical and biological sciences. smb.org
Thank you for joining us at today's entry in the NITMB Seminar Series!
@ssm57.bsky.social, Professor and Bliss Faculty Scholar of Bioengineering at the Univeristy of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, joined us this week to explore 'Crossfeeding Dynamics in Energy-Limited and Auxotrophic Systems'
Right now, Naghmeh Akhavan from the University of Michigan is giving a talk about collective cell migration in Drosophila egg development.
See the post below for information about the seminar.
Randomly listening to #BiologyInNumbers episodes (by @parmvir.com for @smbmathbiology.bsky.social) and really enjoyed @suzannesindi.bsky.social's! I wish I'd heard it during my Ph.D. - esp: "most of the time what you try does not work... it feels like you're always solving a puzzle".
03.10.2025 20:03 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Really enjoyed talking about mathematical biology (and a little about being an associate dean) in @parmvir.com's Biology in Numbers podcast on the 2025 @smbmathbiology.bsky.social annual meeting!
Bolero superfans, don't @ me! 🧪
(I'm at 33:43)
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Also starring:
@adamlmaclean.bsky.social
@gosiaweh.bsky.social
@mathcancer.bsky.social
@thomasewoolley.bsky.social
Luis Sordo Vieira
Mobolaji Williams
Kira Pugh
and Francisca Olajide
@smbmathbiology.bsky.social #scicomm #BiologyInNumbers
This year's @smbmathbiology.bsky.social meeting provided us with another delightful mashup of math biologists (and me) talking about science, and in Amy's case, ultra-running and conference coffee ☕
Thanks to all the excellent attendees who agreed to speak with me for Biology in Numbers.
#scicomm
Right now, Po-Chun Kuo from Purdue University is giving a talk on "Dynamics of Immersed Interface Interface Problems in Stokes Flow". Please see the link below for more information on joining the talk.
30.09.2025 15:01 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
236 metagenome-assembled microbial genomes from rivers along a latitudinal gradient www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs
02.09.2025 15:09 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Please list your online science, math, etc. seminars on researchseminars.org
(apologies if you have already done it)
Open-rank open-area faculty search in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Application deadline: November 3, 2025.
Please share widely!
www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/26...
In case anyone is interested in attending, Tin's talk is about to start.
02.09.2025 14:58 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Just finished reading an insightful book by @joshuasweitz.bsky.social, which explores the role of asymptomatic cases, the importance of large-scale testing, and vaccine development. Beyond COVID-19, it provides broader insights into how we can approach and prepare for future health challenges.
30.08.2025 04:11 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Our first talk will be this coming Tuesday (11am Eastern / 10 Central). Tin Phan from Los Alamos National Labs will be speaking on mathematical modeling on the immune dynamics of latently infected viral cells.
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Are you using or interested in starting to use machine learning to study cytoskeletal dynamics, cell migration, and mitosis?
Join us this November for an upcoming NITMB workshop, Machine Learning of Cytoskeletal Machines (Cell Migration and Mitosis)!
www.nitmb.org/cytoskeletal...
Understanding neural computation in natural environments
Explore the work of Siwei Wang, NITMB Affiliate Member and Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior at @stonybrooku.bsky.social!
Read the full member bio at www.nitmb.org/post/underst...
SkAI and @nitmb.bsky.social held a ribbon cutting ceremony with a visit from @durbin.senate.gov, celebrating our space for interdisciplinary innovation and collaboration. Thank you to Sen. Durbin for his continued advocacy for Illinoisans in terms of higher ed advancements! Pic credit: Ben Stemen
28.08.2025 21:36 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Check out exciting new developments and upcoming events in this month’s NITMB newsletter!
If you missed it, an archived version is available at www.nitmb.org/newsletter-a...
Access exciting benefits and help shape the future of NITMB as an NITMB Affiliate Member!
Applications are due Monday, September 1st
Apply today at www.nitmb.org/affiliate-me...
Happy to share our research on traditional farming landscapes in northwest Himalaya is out in Science Advances! Thanks to my advisor Tulja & all the wonderful collaborators- Ale @ornithoale.bsky.social, Katie @kasolari.bsky.social, Akshata, Kullu, Rinchen, Lamaji. 1/7 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
19.08.2025 20:59 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Do cutting-edge research at the frontiers of Computational & Mathematical Biology! We invite applications for four fully funded PhD positions with MACSYS at The University of Melbourne.
👉Find out more/apply: macsys.org/phd-scholars...
@smbmathbiology.bsky.social #PhD #Scholarships
Welcome to the final day of the NITMB MathBio Convergence Conference!
Join us today as we wrap up our discussions, take a tour of NITMB, and gather for a career development workshop
Check out today's schedule at www.nitmb.org/nitmb-mathbi...
A presentation slide entitled "About the show". The text reads: Biology in Numbers is in part the brainchild of then SMB president Sandy Anderson, realized by Heiko Enderling (also as SMB president), and hosted by Parmvir Bahia. Created for math biologists to connect with each other, the wider scientific community and non-expert audiences. Under the text is a picture of Parmvir and Heiko sitting at microphones in an office. To the right is a graphic of some headphones.
A slide with a montage of all podcast guests to-date. Under their headshots is a little graphic of a microphone and text reading: Our guests have included members and non-members. Scientists from every career stage, nationality and background. We’ve discussed articles, committees, subgroups, mentorship, industry and roles within the society.
This year we wrapped up S2 of Biology in Numbers for @smbmathbiology.bsky.social. I've loved hearing scientists talk passionately about #MathBio. Digging into the data to learn about the podcast’s reach, it seems so do many others.
So here is the podcast by the numbers, starting with an intro. 1/2
A world map with countries showing where listeners are includes more than 37 countries including: United States, United Kingdom, India, Türkiye, Germany, Australia, Canada, Philippines, Italy, New Zealand, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, Mexico, Denmark, Hungary, France, Romania, Sweden, Colombia, Brazil, Austria, Israel, Norway, Argentina, Chile, Poland, Morocco, South Korea, Indonesia, Peru, Finland, Algeria, Hong Kong SAR China, Egypt. The countries in the darkest shades of blue indicating the highest number of listeners are in: US, UK then India.
Graphs showing listener engagement on apple and spotify. Followers: 93 and 219 respectively, time listened (hours) 882 and 162 respectively and number of plays: 1200 and 1225 respectively.
Two graphs showing information about the listeners. The first is a donut chart showing that female listeners make up 50% of the audience, male listeners 45%, 4.5% unknown and 0.7% non-binary. A bar graph of listener age groups shows: 0-17 year olds: 1%, 18-22 year olds: 9%, 23-37 year olds: 23%, 28-34 year olds: 45%, 35-44 year olds: 17%, 45-59 year olds: 6%, 60+: 1%.
Part of its remit is to support the community, so it's cool to see downloads worldwide, reflecting @smbmathbiology.bsky.social's international members. It's also great to see the # of followers on different platforms indicating regular listeners. Go to smb.org/podcast to subscribe if you haven't!
11.08.2025 15:28 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Research Catalyst Global Symposium
Opportunities: Oral presentation, networking, funding opportunities, and publishing abstract.
Apply fast.
forms.gle/feEufr4q1XxV...
Pls reshare. @shubhatole.bsky.social @smbmathbiology.bsky.social @samillingworth.com @research-goes-slow.bsky.social
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).
Please see the link below for more information.
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Really excited to share our new @cellpress.bsky.social Cell paper with @fertiglab.bsky.social and colleagues. 1/n
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
@jktgfoundation.bsky.social @itcrtraining.bsky.social @smbmathbiology.bsky.social #mathbio #mathonco @mathonco.bsky.social @deniswirtz.bsky.social
figure 1 from https://doi.org/10.1086/737588 describing (a) our conceptualisation of an evolutionary transition in individuality, (b) an interpretation of the traits that we consider in our mathematical model, and (c) a graphical representation of the population dynamics in the model.
Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, and evolutionary transitions in individuality? my first paper just came out! With @gokhalecs.bsky.social and Pete Czuppon, we study when & how individuality emerges in a host-endosymbiont collective doi.org/10.1086/737588 a short thread🧵:
23.07.2025 14:21 — 👍 66 🔁 27 💬 5 📌 3
💥 Excited to introduce Bacformer 🦠 - the first foundation model for bacterial genomics. Bacformer represents genomes as sequences of ordered proteins, learning the “grammar” of how genes are arranged, interact and evolve.
Preprint 📝: biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Global mentors joining the symposium.
EMBO is joining to talk about funding opportunities.
Students and researchers from broad biology or doing interdisciplinary research are welcome to apply. opportunity for Oral presentation, Global networking, Get certified and gain international visibility. Please share with your colleagues and students. Apply here - https://forms.gle/sLDerCLpWPGNnjcFA
Applications open for RCGS 2025, to empower young researchers globally.
Joined/supported by EMBO Euraxess, INYAS and mentors from Johns Hopkins, UCLA, Imperial, Cornell, more.
Oral presentation, networking, Certificates. Open to Master, PhD, Postdoc.
Apply forms.gle/sLDerCLpWPGN...
Ps share 🙏🏼
Final plenary from Susanna Manrubia at #SMB2025 is another phenomenal plenary talk. Building critical concepts through historical storytelling - starting with Lewis Carroll.
TLDR; genotype space is massive! Astronomically large redundancy between genotype and phenotype.
