Microenvironment-driven dynamic heterogeneity and phenotypic plasticity as a mechanism of melanoma therapy resistance

F Ahmed, NK Haass - Frontiers in oncology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Drug resistance constitutes a major challenge in designing melanoma therapies.
Microenvironment-driven tumor heterogeneity and plasticity play a key role in this …

Simulation and inference algorithms for stochastic biochemical reaction networks: from basic concepts to state-of-the-art

DJ Warne, RE Baker… - Journal of the Royal …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Stochasticity is a key characteristic of intracellular processes such as gene regulation and
chemical signalling. Therefore, characterizing stochastic effects in biochemical systems is …

Practical parameter identifiability for spatio-temporal models of cell invasion

MJ Simpson, RE Baker… - Journal of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We examine the practical identifiability of parameters in a spatio-temporal reaction–diffusion
model of a scratch assay. Experimental data involve fluorescent cell cycle labels, providing …

Designing and interpreting 4D tumour spheroid experiments

RJ Murphy, AP Browning, G Gunasingh… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Tumour spheroid experiments are routinely used to study cancer progression and treatment.
Various and inconsistent experimental designs are used, leading to challenges in …

Using experimental data and information criteria to guide model selection for reaction–diffusion problems in mathematical biology

DJ Warne, RE Baker, MJ Simpson - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2019 - Springer
Reaction–diffusion models describing the movement, reproduction and death of individuals
within a population are key mathematical modelling tools with widespread applications in …

A stochastic mathematical model of 4D tumour spheroids with real-time fluorescent cell cycle labelling

JJ Klowss, AP Browning, RJ Murphy… - Journal of the …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In vitro tumour spheroids have been used to study avascular tumour growth and drug design
for over 50 years. Tumour spheroids exhibit heterogeneity within the growing population that …

Parameter identifiability and model selection for partial differential equation models of cell invasion

Y Liu, K Suh, PK Maini, DJ Cohen… - Journal of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
When employing mechanistic models to study biological phenomena, practical parameter
identifiability is important for making accurate predictions across wide ranges of unseen …

Quantifying tissue growth, shape and collision via continuum models and Bayesian inference

C Falcó, DJ Cohen, JA Carrillo… - Journal of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Although tissues are usually studied in isolation, this situation rarely occurs in biology, as
cells, tissues and organs coexist and interact across scales to determine both shape and …

Exact sharp-fronted travelling wave solutions of the Fisher–KPP equation

SW McCue, M El-Hachem, MJ Simpson - Applied Mathematics Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
A family of travelling wave solutions to the Fisher–KPP equation with speeds c=±5∕ 6 can
be expressed exactly using Weierstra ß elliptic functions. The well-known solution for c= 5∕ …

[HTML][HTML] New computational tools and experiments reveal how geometry affects tissue growth in 3D printed scaffolds

DJ VandenHeuvel, BL Devlin, PR Buenzli… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding how tissue growth in porous scaffolds is influenced by geometry is a
fundamental challenge in the field of tissue engineering. We investigate the influence of …