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Mathematical oncologist working on cancer evolutionary therapy #AndersonLab @mathonco.bsky.social Chair @EvolTherapy.bsky.social Director @smbmathbiology.bsky.social Fellow and former President

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Mathematical Oncology - Call for Award Nominations

πŸŽ‰ The SMB #MathOnco Subgroup is launching its inaugural Early Career Awards!

Grad student or postdoc presenting at #ECMTB2026 / #SMB2026 in Graz? Apply by April 30th!

πŸ”— smb.org/call-for-award-nominations/

09.03.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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πŸŽ‰ Excited to share our cover article in Cancer Research!
We identified distinct tumor‑immune ecologies in lung cancer that predict immunotherapy responseβ€”moving beyond single biomarkers to spatial interactions. #CancerResearch #Immunotherapy #TumorMicroenvironment #Biomarkers
Paper: t.co/cLLk8JX4UH

06.03.2026 21:58 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Had a fantastic time presenting my research at MathOnco25. Looking forward to IMO workshop! @mathonco.bsky.social

01.11.2025 04:06 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Last speaker at #MathOnco25 is our own @mathonco.bsky.social Jeffrey West that provides a study of the #mathonco literature to produce this definition of MathOnco: the use of interpretable models to understand and improve cancer therapy

31.10.2025 16:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Great last didactic at #MathOnco25 by @andriy-marusyk.bsky.social describing the complex landscape of evolutionary and ecological mechanisms aiding cancers become treatment-resistant. Andriy and I both share the idea of maps as an example of what models can be

31.10.2025 16:05 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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4th (and last) day of #MathOnco25. Excellent work @sandyanderson.bsky.social and @gliomath.bsky.social. Looking forward the next one, hopefully in 2026

31.10.2025 13:42 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Last keynote at #MathOnco25 by Sarah Bruningk talking about #AI in #Medicine. While generally optimistic about AI in medicine she is aware of the challenge that AI works best when there is a lot of data and that is almost never the case in clinical oncology

31.10.2025 13:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In her #MathOnco25 plenary, Sarah BrΓΌningk motivates mechanistic learning in mathematical oncology, drawing on her recent review paper: www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

31.10.2025 13:16 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Bob Gatenby finishes his phenomenal #MathOnco25 talk with this stunning figure and conclusion: "Cycles within cycles may allow metastatic prostate cancer to be converted to a chronic disease". The results are from a new paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

30.10.2025 21:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Joel Brown at #MathOnco25 draws parallels between the evolution and ecology of cancer and of dogs, elephant shrews and (of course) squirrels. Cancer redefined as "a disease of uncontrolled proliferation by transformed cells subject to evolution by natural selection". aacrjournals.org/mcr/article/...

30.10.2025 18:19 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Now @kitcgallagher.bsky.social at #MathOnco25 presents his recent research on predicting treatment outcomes to identify which patients will benefit the most from adaptive therapy. Preprints and papers at scholar.google.com/citations?us...

30.10.2025 16:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Franco Pradelli presents one of the most beautiful slides so far at #MathOnco25, on the topic of exploiting the cost of addiction in anaplastic large cell lymphoma

30.10.2025 15:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fantastic to have adaptive therapy pioneer Jingsong Zhang here at #MathOnco25 talking about a third-generation adaptive therapy trial for metastatic prostate cancer underway at the Moffitt Cancer Center, informed by Jill Gallagher's mathematical modelling. Preprint: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

30.10.2025 15:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thursday keynote at #MathOnco25 with @robjohnnoble.bsky.social showing a wealth of #MathOnco models of cancer evolution and evolutionary-enlightened therapies. Notice the bingo card: he showed enough different math models to fill up the card!

30.10.2025 14:00 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Optimal dosing of anti-cancer treatment under drug-induced plasticity - npj Systems Biology and Applications npj Systems Biology and Applications - Optimal dosing of anti-cancer treatment under drug-induced plasticity

Really nice #MathOnco25 talk by Einar Bjarki Gunnarsson on optimal dosing of anti-cancer treatment under drug-induced plasticity, showing "that the optimal dosing strategy steers the tumor to a fixed equilibrium composition between sensitive and tolerant cells" www.nature.com/articles/s41...

29.10.2025 21:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Biologically informed deep neural networks provide quantitative assessment of intratumoral heterogeneity in post treatment glioblastoma - npj Digital Medicine npj Digital Medicine - Biologically informed deep neural networks provide quantitative assessment of intratumoral heterogeneity in post treatment glioblastoma

Now at #MathOnco25, co-organiser @gliomath.bsky.social presents recent work showing that the predictions of an AI method massively improved when coupled with a mechnaistic mathematical model www.nature.com/articles/s41...

29.10.2025 21:22 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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From Tampa to the gorgeous St. Pete for #MathOnco25. Science and views for the next few days! 😍

29.10.2025 21:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Great talk by collaborator Joon Hyun Song from @ceel-damaghilab.bsky.social working on a simple model of the storage effect to explain the role of temporal fluctuations in intra tumor heterogeneity #MathOnco25

29.10.2025 20:22 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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At #MathOnco25, @rrockne.bsky.social explains why he so loves SINDy (sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics).

29.10.2025 16:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Great didactic at #MathOnco25 by @rrockne.bsky.social who starts his presentation with a very Freudian slip by thanking organizers @gliomath.bsky.social and #SINDy (meaning @sandyanderson.bsky.social)

29.10.2025 15:49 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Galit Lahav - Wikipedia

First plenary talk at #MathOnco25 today is Harvard's Galit Lahav about the temporal dynamics of p53 and how it lends itself to #MathModeling

29.10.2025 13:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Day 2 of #MathOnco25 in St Pete Beach, FL

29.10.2025 13:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Great didactic at #MathOnco25 by @dwodarz.bsky.social showing the importance of space...and turnover in #cancerevolution

28.10.2025 21:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Our own Tatiana Miti highlighting the importance of data to find out the initial configuration of an ABM describing early stages in metastasis, something which is hard to study with experimental models and clinical data #MathOnco25

28.10.2025 21:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A man after my own heart! @dwodarz.bsky.social on the importance of spatial structure in tumour evolution #MathOnco25

28.10.2025 21:02 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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At #MathOnco25, @cancerevo.org talks about how to model the role of the tumor microenvironment in cancer initiation, progression, and treatment resistance. He finishes by advertising the Moffitt IMO PhD program www.moffitt.org/education/re...

28.10.2025 20:12 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Now at #MathOnco25, @ceel-damaghilab.bsky.social advocates "3D spheroids as a simplest model of tumor ecosystem". His beautiful data make a strong case.

28.10.2025 19:36 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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First didactic of the day at #MathOnco25 is Stony Brook's @ceel-damaghilab.bsky.social about the breast ecosystem. The early breast cancer ecosystem is a tumor incubator

28.10.2025 19:18 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Setting the tone for #MathOnco25, @stroblmar.bsky.social (now based in London) outlines the benefits of theory-experiment integration

28.10.2025 18:12 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Co-organiser @sandyanderson.bsky.social is about to kick off the four-day #MathOnco25 meeting. And you can join us online! moffitt.zoom.us/j/95801446916

28.10.2025 17:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0