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A mathematical modeling approach used to optimize the composition, diversity, and timing of bacteriophage cocktails for treating drug-resistant bacterial infections.
#ComputationalBiology #MathematicalBiology #Microbiology #InfectiousDiseases #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/cobi08292601.html

High rates of cell proliferation (growth and division) may actually protect against tumor growth by allowing tissues to aggressively destroy and replace slightly defective cells before they become cancerous.
#Biology #Oncology #ControlTheory #Bioengineering #MathematicalBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/08/bio08182601.html

At the end of their life cycles or when facing environmental threats, communities of bacteria known as biofilms forcefully eject a subset of mobile cells to colonize new locations and ensure the survival of the population.
#Microbiology #MolecularBiology #Biophysics #MathematicalBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/07/mcb07072601.html

A highly sensitive analytical blood-testing method that uses classical statistics to isolate and analyze samples containing as little as 5% cancer DNA.
#Oncology #StatisticalGenetics #MathematicalBiology #MolecularPathology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/ongy06092601.html

Certain tree species, such as the Pyrenean oak, function as ecological mediators by altering the soil beneath them to balance competition between rival plant species. This natural mediation prevents dominant plants from driving weaker competitors to extinction.
#Ecology #TheoreticalEcology #MathematicalBiology #Environmental #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/eco06042601.html

Researchers have studied the fluid dynamics around corals driven by the collective beating of cilia (densely packed tiny hairs), creating mathematical models that explain how these organisms regulate their immediate environments through particle transport.
#Biophysics #MathematicalBiology #MarineBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/biph05272601.html

A novel mathematical framework that utilizes long-term ecological data to accurately forecast how strongly an ecosystem will resist future climate extremes, such as severe droughts.
#Ecology #Environmental #Climatology #MathematicalBiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/05/eco05142601.html

As we march towards the end of 2025, we reflect on the amazing mathematical journeys that our contributors have transported us to! In total, we published 11 stories and 4 blogs this year. Our contributors' mathematical backgrounds range from #PureMathematics to #AppliedSciences including #MathematicalBiology. These stories and blogs by amazing women also encompass their wide-ranging mathematical careers from penning #MathematicalPoetries to working in #QuantumScience. Please give these inspiring articles a read! We’ll be back on the 7th of January 2026! We wish you Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!

🖥️ Story by Anna Ma: https://hermathsstory.eu/anna-ma/
🗄️ Story by Catherine Micek: https://hermathsstory.eu/catherine-micek/
🩺 Story by Bindi Brook: https://hermathsstory.eu/bindi-brook/
📝 Story by JoAnne Growney: https://hermathsstory.eu/joanne-growney/
🗺️ Story by Kateryna Marynets: https://hermathsstory.eu/kateryna-marynets/
📈 Story by Alexandra Edletzberger: https://hermathsstory.eu/alexandra-edletzberger/
⚛️ Story by Laura Lewis: https://hermathsstory.eu/laura-lewis/
🌗 Story by Mihyun Kang: https://hermathsstory.eu/mihyun-kang/
🎻 Story by Anna Breger: https://hermathsstory.eu/anna-breger/
🛣️ Story by Ilse Fisher: https://hermathsstory.eu/ilse-fischer/
🔐 Story by Surya Mathialagan: https://hermathsstory.eu/surya-mathialagan/

📜 Blog by Jessy Randall on “Poetry as Lens: Two Historical Women Mathematicians”: https://hermathsstory.eu/poetry-as-lens-two-historical-women-mathematicians/
🤝 Blog by Jamie Haddock & Anna Little on “Association for Women in Mathematics at the SIAM/CAIMS 2025 Annual Meeting”: https://hermathsstory.eu/association-for-women-in-mathematics-at-the-siam-caims-2025-annual-meeting/
🧭 Blog by Rosie Evans & Ashleigh Ratcliffe on “The Piscopia Initiative & How to Train Your Allies present: What Can You Do?”: https://hermathsstory.eu/the-piscopia-initiative-how-to-train-your-allies-present-what-can-you-do/
🎥 Blog by us on “Reflecting on ‘Counted Out’: A Conversation About Maths, Power, and Inclusion”: https://hermathsstory.eu/reflecting-on-counted-out-a-conversation-about-maths-power-and-inclusion/

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@Daniel_Hoffmann

And another book targeting undergraduates:

"Mathematics in biology", by Meister, Lee and Portugues.
http://www.mathinbio.com/

"Compact and elegant. Particularly welcome are straightforward discussions of filtering and other signal processing, optimal estimation, and fold change detection, all of which are hard to find in an accessible presentation at this level."

#MathematicalBiology

@Daniel_Hoffmann

There's also lots of straightforward, entry-level math and statistics in D'Arcy Thompson's "On growth and form", a most enjoyable book for the mathematically inclined. I suggest the 1942 edition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Growth_and_Form

#MathematicalBiology

@Daniel_Hoffmann

"Mathematical biology" by David Tong may do:
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/mathbio.html

Tong's page offers problem sheets, and also points to further mathematical biology resources online.

#MathematicalBiology

“My PhD was all about understanding what happens to blood flow in collapsible blood vessels like the giraffe jugular vein. In my postdoc I was investigating how to optimise ventilator settings for patients in ICU and then how to deliver inhaled therapies into the lungs. Since then, my focus has been in trying to understand how diseases like Asthma and other respiratory diseases originate and then progress. This involves incorporating biology and physics into mathematical and computational models, using approaches from different areas of applied maths. More recently I have started to look into the mechanisms that could lead to a rare lung disease called lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) and Long Covid.” - Bindi Brook

➡️ https://hermathsstory.eu/bindi-brook/

#Academia #PhD #Professor #AppliedMathematics #MathematicalBiology #MathematicalMedicine #UnconsciousBias #WomenInMaths #WomenInSTEM #HerMathsStory

👀 New study reveals the explosive secret of the squirting cucumber

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2410420121
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2024-11-26-new-study-reveals-explosive-secret-squirting-cucumber

Seed ejection filmed at 8600 frames per second with a high-speed camera, that remained aimed at the fruit for several days, using an image-based auto-trigger set up.

#Biology #Science #Biomechanics #Locomotion #PlantScience #PlantAnatomy #Seeds #Plants #MathematicalBiology #Cucumber #video #highspeedvideo #STEM

#MathematicalBiology #evolution #evolutionarybiology #popgen #evolutionarydynamics #MathematicalModeling @Project_Telos

Hi all! For any mathematical biologists who will be at the #JointMathMeetings in Boston, I will be co-chairing a special session on "Mathematical Modeling of Ecology and Evolution: From Infectious Disease to the Evolution of Cooperation", together with Daniel Cooney, Chadi Saad-Roy, and Olivia Chu. Talks will span a wide range of interests--hope to see some of you there!

https://www.jointmathematicsmeetings.org/meetings/national/jmm2023/2270_program_ss48.html#title

#MathematicalBiology
#Epidemiology
#EvolutionaryGameTheory
#Ecology
#Evolution

I was referencing this cheat sheet of ecological functions that I compiled from Ben Bolker's book *Ecological Models and Data in R* about a decade ago.

I find it useful for myself and students, and I hope that you do, too.

#EcologicalFunctions
#MathematicalBiology

GH: https://github.com/ColbyEcology/EcologicalFunctions