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Course: Mathematical Modeling of Biological Processes

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References: (1) Models of Cellular Regulation by Baltazar Aguda and Avner Friedman

bullet Policy: Late Homework and project will be no credit.
bulletTentative Schedule: updated regularly

 

Tuesday: EA 295 Thursday: EA 295
Mar 30

Chemical Kinetics

Mass action law

Michaelis-Menten and Hill type kinetics

Basic ODE thoery

existence

uniqueness by successive iterations

examples

 

Apr 1

Stability of steady state for one ODE

Phase portraits in the plane

Nullclines and Bistability

 

Apr 6

Bifurcation diagram

Bistability and hystereris

Hopf bifurcation

Singular perturbation

Apr 8

Euler Method: Convergence and Stability

Computation: XPPAUT introduction

Math865L_example1.ode

Math865L_example2.ode

Apr 13

Virus dynamics

Ref: Leenheer & Smith, Virus Dynamics: A Global Analysis

SIAM J. Appl. Math Vol 63, No.4 pp 1313-1327, 2003

Basic reproduction number

 

Apr 15

HW: (1) pick f_1 and f_2 you like to generate similar figure as Fig.3.5 in p.27 (handout) and describe the behavior of equalibrium points

Solve the virus model with N = 15 and N = 30. Discuss the biological meanings.

Computation: XPPAUT introduction II

Numerical experiments of virus dynamics

Math865L_example3.ode

Apr 20

Epidemiological models

SIR model

SIER model

Reference book: Mathematical epidemiology by Fred Brauer, Pauline Van den Driessche, Jianhong Wu and Linda J. S. Allen, Springer, 2008

Apr 22

Computation: XPPAUT introduction III

Math865L_example4.ode

Math865L_example5.ode

Apr 27

Cell cycle

The Goldbetter model

Reaction Diffusion equations

Hyperbolic systems

Apr 29

Simulation of the Goldbetter model

Computation: XPPAUT introduction IV

Math865L_example6ode

Math865L_example7.ode

Math865L_example8.ode

May 4

System of Diffusion Reaction Model

Tumor model

May 6

Simulation for parabolic and hyperbolic equations

Matlab pdepe help

pdex1.m

pdex4.m

May 11

Tumor model with several cell types

May 13

Simulations for viral therapy of tumor

Wang_Tian_paper_ex1_array.m

tridiagSolve.m

May 18

Tumor model with several cell types

A model of radially symmetric tumor and it stationary solution

Stability/instability of the stationary solution

Cell differentiation; the Yates-Callard-Stark (YCS) model of Th0 differentiation into Th1 and Th2

Cell differentiation (continued), asymptotic behaviour

May 20

Numerical simulation for cell differentiation

Codes

May 25 Project I: first reference: Dictyostelium discoideum: cellular self-organization in an excitable biological medium by Thomas Hofer, Jonathan A. Sherratt and Philip K. Maini, Proc R. Soc Lon. B (1995) 259, 249-257

second reference: Cellular pattern formation during Dictyostelium aggregation by Thomas Hofer, Jonathan A. Sherratt and Philip K. Maini, Physica D 85 (1995) 425-444
May 27 Project II: Malaria model with periodic mosquito birth and death rates. Bassidy Dembele, Avner Friedman and Abdul-Aziz Yakubu, Journal of Biological Dynamics, Vol 3, No. 4, July 2009, 430-445

Jun 1 Project III: Reference I, A mathematical model of tumor-immune evasion and siRNA treatment. J.C. Arciero, T.L. Jackson, and D.E. Kirschner. Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems-Series B, Vol 4, No. 1, Feb 2004, 39-58

Project III: Reference II, Modeling immunotherpy of the tumor--immune iteraction by Denise Kirschner and John Carl Panetta, J. Math. Biol. (1998)37: 235-252

Jun 3 Project IV: Reference I, A Mathematical Model for Collagen Fibre Formation during Foetal and Adult Dermal Wound Healing. Paul D. Dale,; Jonathan A. Sherratt and; Philip K. Maini, Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B (1996) 263, 653-660
Jun 8

Project V: Leukocytes. James Keener, James Sneyd. Mathematical Physiology. Vol II: Systems Physiology, Chapter 16, 495-507.

Jun 10

Project VI: Respiration. James Keener, James Sneyd. Mathematical Physiology. Vol II: Systems Physiology, Chapter 17, 516-527.