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Fabian Fröhlich @frohlichlab.com · 3d

🌊 Signals intertwine,
🔬 cells tell hidden stories,
🤖✨ SciML maps their future.

Come do a PhD with us www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Fröhlich Lab | Scientific Machine Learning for Signal Transduction

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Ben Allen @evodynamics.bsky.social · 4d

Looking forward to this! A non-Elsevier alternative to Theoretical Population Biology / Journal of Theoretical Biology

Stanford University Press @stanfordpress.bsky.social · 10d

Population Biology Modeling & Theory (PBMT) is a peer-reviewed journal reporting advances in modeling and theory within population biology. Its scope spans demography, ecology, epidemiology, evolutionary biology, population genetics, and phylogenetics. PBMT will be online soon.

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Alex Fedorec @ajfedorec.bsky.social · 29d

The advert for the first of these positions (computational/mathematical synbio) is live!

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Giulia Laura Celora @gcelora.bsky.social · Aug 28

📣 Delighted to announce the first edition of the 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 Day, to take place in Oxford on 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟳𝘁𝗵, with lots of exciting work at the interface of mathematics and biology.

🔗 For more information: sites.google.com/view/oxwmath...

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smbdevbio.bsky.social @smbdevbio.bsky.social · Sep 4

Applying for a postdoctoral, tenure-track or industry job? We are gauging interest for an 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 for academic and industry jobs.

If interested, fill up the following form by 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 1𝘀𝘁
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Interviewing 101 Webinar

The SMB CDEV Subcommittee is excited to offer a two-part job preparation series for job applicants seeking academic and industry jobs. To help candidates with this process, we will be hosting an Inter...

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Giulia Laura Celora @gcelora.bsky.social · Aug 28

🙏 A special thanks to our sponsors: Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research, @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social ocial, Fondation L'Oréal, @unesco.org

Giulia Laura Celora @gcelora.bsky.social · Aug 28

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘪𝘮 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘹𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘥 𝘞𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘉𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘋𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘸𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺. 𝘞𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, 𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦.

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Giulia Laura Celora @gcelora.bsky.social · Aug 28

📣 Delighted to announce the first edition of the 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 Day, to take place in Oxford on 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭𝟳𝘁𝗵, with lots of exciting work at the interface of mathematics and biology.

🔗 For more information: sites.google.com/view/oxwmath...

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smbdevbio.bsky.social @smbdevbio.bsky.social · Jul 8

Attending the SMB annual meeting @smbmathbiology.bsky.social and looking for interesting research? Check out our latest blog post featuring talented ECRs who will present their work in Edmonton with the support of the CDEV travel grant.

🔗 smb-celldevbio.github.io/2025-06-22-S...

Early Career Researchers at SMB 2025

CDEV Travel Grant Awardees

smb-celldevbio.github.io

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Joshua Bull @joshuabull.bsky.social · Jun 23

If you're at #BAMC2025 today, come along to #MS06 this afternoon! With @gcelora.bsky.social and a cast of stellar speakers, we'll be Modelling and Quantifying Pattern in Living Tissue 🔬🦓🧮

I have no idea what PCC/2.1-2 is, but I assume it's the room we're in 😅

sites.exeter.ac.uk/bmc-bamc2025...

Mini-Symposia

We list minisymposia (MS) sessions with their draft timings. The sessions are as follows: Day1PM: 15:10-17:10 Mon 23rd June 2025 Day2AM: 10:30-12:30 Tues 24th June 2025 Day2PM: 15:40-17:40 Tues 24th J...

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SMB - Society for Mathematical Biology @smbmathbiology.bsky.social · Jun 17

Recent #BulletinMathBio paper by Ruby E. Nixson, Helen M. Byrne, Joe M. Pitt-Francis, and Philip K. Maini on Characterising the Behaviour of a Structured PDE Model of the Cell Cycle in Contrast to a Corresponding ODE System. @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Characterising the Behaviour of a Structured PDE Model of the Cell Cycle in Contrast to a Corresponding ODE System - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Experimental results have shown that anti-cancer therapies, such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy, can modulate the cell cycle and generate cell cycle phase-dependent responses. As a result, obtaining...

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SMB - Society for Mathematical Biology @smbmathbiology.bsky.social · Jun 17

Here is a recent #BulletinMathBio paper by Daria Stepanova, Meritxell Brunet Guasch, Helen M. Byrne, and Tomás Alarcón on Understanding How Chromatin Folding and Enzyme Competition Affect Rugged Epigenetic Landscapes.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Understanding How Chromatin Folding and Enzyme Competition Affect Rugged Epigenetic Landscapes - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Epigenetics plays a key role in cellular differentiation and maintaining cell identity, enabling cells to regulate their genetic activity without altering the DNA sequence. Epigenetic regulation occur...

link.springer.com

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SMB - Society for Mathematical Biology @smbmathbiology.bsky.social · May 20

Here's a great set of recorded lectures on Turing patterns by @profruthbaker.bsky.social from @ox.ac.uk.

Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · May 3

Alan Turing is the star of the next set of student lectures we are showing. But not the Turing of computer science or cryptography, but the Turing of zebra stripes.

Ruth Baker is talking mathematical biology and, in particular, pattern formation. Lecture 1: youtu.be/ta3pGHqPKkg

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Alex Browning @apbrowning.bsky.social · Jun 3

Interested (or know anyone interested!) in pursuing a PhD in applied mathematics? Come and join us at Melbourne! A/Prof Doug Brumley and I are advertising a maths + biology project looking at adaptation of bacteria. Find out more 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Mathematical models of biological adaptation in fluctuating environments at University of Melbourne on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Mathematical models of biological adaptation in fluctuating environments at University of Melbourne, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Giulia Laura Celora @gcelora.bsky.social · May 26

Extremely happy to see our work on the collective chemotaxis of cell groups out!

Such an incredible and fun collaboration leading to exciting interdisciplinary science

#biophysics #mathbio #cellbiology

🔗 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · May 19

Please help me circulate this job ad. Thanks!
@the-node.bsky.social

Berta Verd @bertaverd.bsky.social · May 19

Experimental embryology postdoc available in my lab at the @biology.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk working on the evolution of vertebral counts. Reach out if you’re passionate about EvoDevo, enjoy lab work and microscopy and are into or could get into cichlid fishes. Deadline on the 16th June. Please share!

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Giulia Laura Celora @gcelora.bsky.social · May 15

Fantastic to see recognised the role of maths in driving breakthroughs in the biomedical sciences
🎉 Congrats to @joshuabull.bsky.social!

Check out www.muspan.co.uk to know about how maths is innovating spatial biology

@oxfordmathematics.bsky.social #WCMB #mathonco

Tim Elliott @timmunologist.bsky.social · May 15

@oxfordcancer.bsky.social @joshuabull.bsky.social mathematician extraordinaire scoops a vice chancellors award for research excellence this afternoon
@oxcio.bsky.social

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Joshua Bull @joshuabull.bsky.social · Apr 14

Are you looking for a postdoc position in #SpatialBiology?

We're advertising roles in both mathematical method development and in spatial data analysis @ox.ac.uk in colorectal precancer spatial biology!

Method Development: tinyurl.com/4vcbdjcy 🧮
Data Interpretation: tinyurl.com/yzsp729s 🧪

Job Details

my.corehr.com

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Giulia Laura Celora @gcelora.bsky.social · Apr 14

📣 Looking for PhD students and early-career researchers to help organising #interphace2027, a one-day workshop on interdisciplinary approaches to the life sciences

To show interest write to
✉️ [email protected]

More info about the previous edition
🔗 www.crick.ac.uk/whats-on/int...

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MPLS Division, University of Oxford @mplsoxford.bsky.social · Mar 27

👏 Congratulations to @joshuabull.bsky.social from the Mathematical Institute.

Dr Josh Bull has been shortlisted for the 2025 Vice-Chancellor’s Awards in the Breakthrough Researcher Award category for his work analysing large spatially resolved data.

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Trevor Graham @trevorgraham.bsky.social · Mar 21

Ben O'Leary & I are looking for a #postdoc to join us in @cec-icr.bsky.social to work on collaborative @cancerresearchuk.org RadNet project about the interrelationship between genome & epigenome instability and radiotherapy response.

Details & apply here: jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/11...

@icr.ac.uk

Postdoctoral Training Fellow - Evolution & Translational Genomics in Sutton | The Institute of Cancer Research

View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Training Fellow - Evolution & Translational Genomics vacancy in Sutton. Salary: Dependent on relevant Postdoctoral experience. Future progre...

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Hallou Lab @halloulab.bsky.social · Mar 17

🚨 Paper Alert 🚨
Absolutely delighted to share our last paper on "spatial mechano-transcriptomics" @naturemethods👇!!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A computational pipeline for spatial mechano-transcriptomics - Nature Methods

The authors present a computational framework that leverages mechanical force inference and spatial transcriptomics to enable analyses of the interplay between the transcriptomic and mechanical state.

www.nature.com

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smbdevbio.bsky.social @smbdevbio.bsky.social · Mar 12

We have a few travel or childcare grants for students (undergraduate or graduate) and postdoctoral fellows attending the 2025 SMB Annual Meeting (2025.smb.org).

📆 Due date: April 15, 2025.
🔗 Application Form: forms.gle/ij3SArY1Zpby...
💵 Awards will be of about $250.

Society of Mathematical Biology

The Society for Mathematical Biology annual meeting - 2025.

2025.smb.org

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Giulia Laura Celora @gcelora.bsky.social · Feb 26

What a day!

Thanks to all of the participants and the amazing speakers who contributed to the success of the first INTERPHACE symposium, where neither experiments nor theory are left to the supplementary🔬⚛️

To many more editions 🥂

Hanna Roetschke @hroetschke.bsky.social · Feb 24

I hope you enjoyed today as much as we did! Here's to many future editions of #INTERPHACE2025 💥

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