Happy new year! The second big project of my PhD in Rachel Whitaker's lab is now up! 🎉 We look at how provirus infection affects the evolution of the bacterial chromosome with different types of viral induction – with CRISPRs or antibiotics. Take a peek 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

I am looking forward to buying some of the mathematical biology baseball cards from the @smbmathbiology.bsky.social booth at the JMM. @jointmath.bsky.social #JMM2026

SMB is at JMM! Stop by our booth (#423) to learn more about what we've been up to and to add to your SMB Baseball card collection! #JMM2026 @jointmath.bsky.social

In the last talk for the semester, Tyler Simmons from the University of Minnesota is about to give a talk on "Chemically Self-Assembled Nanorings: Therapeutic Efficacy, Response Variability, and Guiding Principles". Please see below for information on joining the seminar.

Right now, Binan Gu from WPI is giving a talk on " Modeling Cell Transport in Deformable Microenvironments: From Engineered Scaffolds to the Blood–Brain Barrier". Please see the link below for information to join the seminar.

Hi everyone! I'm co-organizing this retreat/workshop June 15-19 for those looking to get started in mathematical/computational modeling of biological processes. Location is a beautiful farm in NC. Please share with students and others who want to build modeling skills. Interdisciplinarity welcome!

Right now, @tedloch.bsky.social from Rice University is giving a talk on a coordination game approach to studying symbiosis. Please see below for more information about joining the talk.

Big congratulations to Dr Nikhil Sharma on receiving the Kiel Life Science Postdoc Award 2025! His outstanding work in theoretical biology and evolutionary graph theory makes us proud. Well deserved! 👏 #KLS #MPIEvolBio www.evolbio.mpg.de/3847270/kiel... (Photo: Christian Urban, Kiel University)

This Plasmid Project was directly inspired by the results on multilevel selection that Dan introduced me to! In this thread he explains some fundamental theoretical results that were so influential to me as a Scientist. Looking forward to more Math-driven experiments!!! Thanks Dan!

Its very exciting to see this paper out in @behavecol.bsky.social. These conversations, expertly led by @delphinedemoor.bsky.social, have really shaped how I now think about working with social network data. Check out Delphine's thread to learn more!

Postdoc position in individual-level incentives, social learning, and payoff-biased imitation shape group-level accuracy in complex prediction and decision-making tasks in Konstanz files.newsletter2go.com/l3slzozn/s_i...

Right now, Dr. Farshad Shirani from Emory University is giving a talk on "Infinite-Dimensional Dynamics, Spatiotemporal Gamma Oscillations, and Balance of Excitation and Inhibition in Cortical Networks". Please see below for information to join the seminar.

Wow, that takes me back to an earlier research life... arxiv.org/abs/1509.02958

Very cool--a systematic study of coalescence and consensus times on graphs, with new theoretical bounds, from @david-brewster.bsky.social et al academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

I'm really excited to see this paper by @fernpizza.bsky.social, @baym.lol, et al. This is a great model system for studying multilevel selection, and the experimental work builds nicely on cross-scale theoretical modeling approaches that I've enjoyed learning about over the past few years. 🧵

Cultural evolution postdoc alert 🚨

Join us for an @smtpb.bsky.social workshop on Modern Coexistence Theory. We'll cover mathematical foundations, the theory of partitioning, and data-based applications. Featuring @swatipatel.bsky.social, Nick Kortessis, & Lauren Shoemaker. Zoom link here: smtpb.org/event-6426026

During the talk, Cody mentioned an upcoming @nitmb.bsky.social workshop on Multi-scale Biological Adaptation to Environmental Variability, which will held in Chicago in November 2026. www.nitmb.org/multiscale-b...

In a few minutes, Cody FitzGerald from Northwestern University and @nitmb.bsky.social will be giving a talk on data-driven modeling of complex biological systems. Please see below to join us at the Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar.

Right now, Professor Swati Patel from Oregon State University is giving a talk on the survival or extinction of structured populations in the presence of pulsed controls. Please see below for information to join.

I’m recruiting students this upcoming cycle at UIUC! I’m excited about Qs on societal impact of AI, especially human-AI collaboration, multi-agent interactions, incentives in data sharing, and AI policy/regulation (all from both a theoretical and applied lens). Apply through CS & select my name!

Right now, Dr. Ruby Kim from the University of Michigan is giving a talk on Mechanistic Modeling of Dopamine Rhythms. Please see below for information to join the seminar.

Right now, Dr. Hyukpyo Hong from the University of Wisconsin - Madison is giving a talk on asymptotic robustness of biochemical systems. Please see below for more information about the seminar.

Right now, we are hosting a talk by Professor Folashade Agusto from the University of Kansas. Please see the link below for more info about the talk.

The first portion of this talk is about a recent #BulletinMathBio paper by Hwai-Ray Tung and Sean Lawley on the effect of missed doses of antibiotics on the dynamics of a bacterial infection. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Right now, Ray Tung from the University of Utah is giving a talk titled "Strolling through space - missed antibiotic doses and extreme first passage times". Please see the link below for more information about joining the seminar.

As part of this project, Chenning made a Python package called Piegy for simulation stochastic spatial models of evolutionary games with diffusive or payoff-driven motion on spatial lattices. pypi.org/project/pieg...

I am happy to share this new preprint with @tianyongyao.bsky.social and Chenning Xu on "Pattern Formation in Agent-Based and PDE Models for Evolutionary Games with Payoff-Driven Motion". arxiv.org/abs/2509.20538

Right now, Naghmeh Akhavan from the University of Michigan is giving a talk about collective cell migration in Drosophila egg development. See the post below for information about the seminar.

Right now, Po-Chun Kuo from Purdue University is giving a talk on "Dynamics of Immersed Interface Interface Problems in Stokes Flow". Please see the link below for more information on joining the talk.

Right now, Maxwell Kreider from Penn State is giving a talk on Synchronization of Stochastic Oscillators at our virtual seminar. See the link here for more information to join the talk sites.google.com/view/midwest....

I'm super excited to have joined @ubcmath.bsky.social and @ubcmicroimmuno.bsky.social !! Please get in touch if you might be interested in graduate studies or postdoctoral research opportunities!

Exciting news! I am delighted to announce that our paper "Phase Chimera States: Frozen Patterns of Disorder" was published in Chaos @aip-publishing.bsky.social pubs.aip.org/aip/cha/arti... @stevenstrogatz.com

In case anyone is interested in attending, Tin's talk is about to start.

Open-rank open-area faculty search in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Application deadline: November 3, 2025. Please share widely! www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/26...

Please list your online science, math, etc. seminars on researchseminars.org (apologies if you have already done it)

Our first talk will be this coming Tuesday (11am Eastern / 10 Central). Tin Phan from Los Alamos National Labs will be speaking on mathematical modeling on the immune dynamics of latently infected viral cells. sites.google.com/view/midwest...

Our EEB department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hiring an assistant professor in evo-devo. See go.illinois.edu/EEBAsstProf for details. Please share!

Happy to share our research on traditional farming landscapes in northwest Himalaya is out in Science Advances! Thanks to my advisor Tulja & all the wonderful collaborators- Ale @ornithoale.bsky.social, Katie @kasolari.bsky.social, Akshata, Kullu, Rinchen, Lamaji. 1/7 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I am happy to announce that the Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be returning for the Fall 2025 semester. Our talks will be held on Tuesdays at 11am US/Canada Eastern time (10am Central time). Please see the link below for more information. sites.google.com/view/midwest...

I also recommend following Andrei's Youtube channel, which will feature videos related to machine learning, applied mathematics, and data science. www.youtube.com/@AndreiTeach...

Interested in host-symbiont interdependence, eukaryogenesis, and evolutionary transitions in individuality? my first paper just came out! With @gokhalecs.bsky.social and Pete Czuppon, we study when & how individuality emerges in a host-endosymbiont collective doi.org/10.1086/737588 a short thread🧵:

The Xue lab at UC Irvine is looking for a staff scientist to support our work investigating how microbes interact and evolve in the gut microbiome! Open to a wide range of previous experience levels, see ad for more. recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09601

Very excited for this--see you in Chicago next May!

I am really happy to share that there will be a @nitmb.bsky.social workshop next year on mathematical and biological features of evolutionary game theory. It was really fun to co-organize this workshop with Olivia Chu, Alex McAvoy, and @jplotkin.bsky.social. www.nitmb.org/evolutionary...

This afternoon, I am sitting in on part one of the #SMB2025 session on "Advances in Spatial Ecological and Epidemiological Modeling and Analysis", organized by Daozhou Gao (Cleveland State University) and Xingfu Zou (University of Western Ontario).

This morning at #SMB2025, I am sitting in on a minisymposium on Modeling Social and Political Ecosystems, featurong talks by Olivia Chu, Alexandria Volkening, and David Sabin-Miller.

I just got my supply of SMB baseball cards for the 2025-2026 academic year. They make great party favors for a mathematical biology course! #SMB2025

I am looking forward to picking up more SMB base all cards at #SMB2025.

I am really enjoying this talk by Mark Lewis, which highlights a lot of really exciting work on nonlocal PDE motions in ecology and collective behavior. It is a particularly fitting talk for tje Okubo Award lecture, showcasing the exciting history of spatial models on biology. #SMB2025