I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new position as Professor at University at Buffalo!

To kickoff my fall hiking season and celebrate my HUGE September 1 career milestone, Joel Versypt and I spent the afternoon at Letchworth State Park for hike 2 of #WNYHikingChallenge. We did the Autism Nature Trail and portions of the Gorge Trail.

Shout-out to Ariel, Kailei, Angeli & Eduardo for TAing our lab's session of the UB ChemE Camp. They helped HS students with designing an optimal treatment plan using our custom MATLAB pharmaceutical dosing app & w drawing PFDs for Oreo manufacturing. Our materials: sites.google.com/site/ashleef...

I was 1 of 2 scheduled speakers in the last contributed talk session at #SMB2025 & the other didn't show. I'm thankful for the 7 engaged audience members consisting of 3 strangers & 4 friends & for see you later hugs I got today. I love the math bio research community that spans the globe.

John Metzcar & I hosted a minisymposium on Systems Approaches to Cancer Biology at the Society for Mathematical Biology Annual Meeting #SMB2025. 2025.smb.org/ONCO/MS-ONCO... Speakers: me, Aaron Meyer, Erzsébet Ravasz Regan, & Stacey Finley

We got a door sign for my lab! I never remembered to ask until a staff member recently asked for updates from all the faculty. My hallway has all new lab signs from all the faculty who've joined in the last 6 years. My lab 404 will no longer get "404 not found" messages.

Happy to be working on this dream team project led by Viviana Monje in her NSF RIEF grant on teaching threshold concepts in statistics to ChE using computational notebooks. Matilde Sanchez-Pena and I are co-PIs on the team. Jinhui Li CBE PhD student created the poster & the notebook (QR code).

Throwback to 16.5 years ago at my first Thunder basketball team in the Ford Center during their first season. Oklahoma has loved and supported this team from the beginning. Not just OKC, but the entire state. Awesome for them to win it all at home! #ThunderUp

NBA finals game 7 team spirit in the ChE Division at ASEE!

My MIRA renewal is officially on the SUNY RF social media celebration list. My first grant to be celebrated as "large grant award" in 4.5 years at UB.

Hike 1 of #WNYHikingChallenge at Little Rock City with UB SEAS colleagues before we start the Faculty Launch Mentoring Program writing retreat in Ellicottville.

We celebrate each new MS or PhD grad by taking a pic with all of those who have graduated and left my lab before them. Congratulations Dr. Kru and Tanben, MS. #ubclassof2025

CBE graduates who had UG research experiences in my lab. Congrats JP, Sarita, and Yaman! #ubclassof2025

My paper with Duncan Mullins on the open source educational materials for Applied Numerical Computing is now published by the Journal of Open Source Education: jose.theoj.org/papers/10.21... Repository: github.com/ashleefv/App... Thanks to NSF and CACHE for funding.

I will teach Honors Board Games in the fall as a 1 credit class for 1st engineers! I will serve as a UB Honors Faculty Fellow. They want faculty to share passions & connect into the UB community. It's perfect to connect my love for gaming, source of community & strategic skill development.

Notice of Award Day!!!!! Our competitive renewal of the NIH R35 MIRA from NIGMS is officially awarded! We are INCREDIBLY thankful for the next five years of support for our project titled: "Quantitative Systems Biomedicine and Pharmacology for Multiscale Tissue Damage".

I have been promoted to the rank of full professor effective 9-1-25 I am thankful for all the members & alumni of my lab, collaborators, funding, mentors, colleagues, friends, family, & Joel. My career is not a solo effort, and I love the team science, service, & education I get to contribute to.

I am thankful to live so close to Niagara Falls! We enjoyed exploring the winter wonderland.

Virtual seminar today for Michigan Tech Biomedical Engineering events.mtu.edu/event/insect...

I'm in Rochester visiting RIT School of Mathematics and Statistics for their Mathematical Modeling Seminar Series. www.rit.edu/science/Math...

Join us for the Computational Health Virtual Seminar Series! 📅 Feb 19, 2025, 2:00 PM EST. @fordversyptlab.bsky.social will give a virtual talk: "Systems Biomedicine & Pharmaceutics: Multiscale Modeling of Tissue Remodeling, Damage, and Treatments." Open to all! 🌍 Attend: duke.is/CompHealth-F...

Temitope and I are at #SACB2025 in Colorado this week. Kailei and I were in Colorado last week for the #GRC Physics of Cancer. Great immersion in cancer meets quantitative analysis approaches at both. Very different weather though...

#SACB2025 meeting is happening this coming week Feb 9-12 2025 at U Colorado Anschutz! We have an incredible set of speakers in line. If you can't be there in person, you can join as a virtual attendee and join the live stream of our sessions sacbmeeting.org

We are your next #GRC Physical Science of Cancer Conference Vice Chairs for the 2027 meeting! I'm excited to get to serve this fantastic scientific community with Stephanie Fraley. @fraleylab.bsky.social

Excited to introduce the HUB and our free inaugural Annual Meeting! Attending this meeting offers an opportunity for $100k pilot grants for faculty! The new innovative program is also great for students and post docs. Register TODAY by clicking the link below: forms.gle/fdviGSeY1epo...

First conference selfie with the one and only Heiko Enderling! We first met at the Gordon Research Conference on Physical Science of Cancer two years ago. It's nice to reunite at the same meeting and represent the cancer math bio research community.

A great seminar visit to WVU Chemical and Biomedical Engineering was enabled by Joel Versypt driving me 5 hr each way. We split up the return trip with a night in PA. He explored campus while I met with faculty and students in this vibrant dept. Thanks to Yuhe Tian for hosting my visit.

Had a nice visit to Vanderbilt Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering for a seminar. Thanks to Marjan Rafat for hosting me!

I am so proud of the team that Shayn Peirce-Cottler and I co-led focused on agent-based modeling of lung fibrosis and interventions. Eirini Kilikian, Claudia De Sousa Miranda Pérez, and Narshini Gunputh learned a lot and accomplished so much this week at #ICERM

Our collaborative workshop on Women in Mathematical Computational Biology is happening this week at Brown University at ICERM. icerm.brown.edu/program/topi...

Join us for an exciting session in @jointmath.bsky.social tomorrow! Here is our revised schedule!

Our book Mathematical Modeling for Women's Health is available at the Springer booth at #JMM25. my first time seeing it in print! Open access available here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

In Seattle for my 1st in-person Joints Maths Meeting. My talk is on Sat. I'm excited for all the math bio and diveristy-celebrating sessions before then. My session: Emerging Geometric and Topological Machine Learning Methods in Mathematical and Computational Oncology. #JMM25

Congratulations to Dr. Krutika Patidar on successfully defending her PhD dissertation! She is the 5th PhD graduate from my lab and the first I recruited at UB.

Our newest paper is now online. Mohammad Aminul Islam, Ph.D. developed this followup to our earlier COVID-19 agent-based model and resulting lung fibrosis. Here, we studied COVID-19 with the renin-angiotensin system and patient-specific differences: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our newest paper is now online. Congratulations to Jabia Mostofa Chowdhury, PhD and Eduardo Andres Chacin Ruiz on this paper on our collaboration with Katelyn Swindle-Reilly on ocular drug delivery. This is our first paper in the Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. jpharmsci.org/article/S002...

We went to Stillwater to visit friends & stopped by OSU CHE. We caught Heather with perfect timing. It was fun to meet the new staff. One had inherited my promotion binders, so she was happy to offload them to me. We got to see Zheyu, Mohammad, and Geir. We loved seeing the ES renovations.

Joel Versypt hosted a great winter social for my lab, and we welcomed the Munguía-López lab too. Joel cooked way too much. They ALL had to take home leftovers bc we leave tomorrow. Shown from my lab: me, Aminul, Krutika, Nick, Kailei, Ariel, and Rajesh

Got to catch up with PhD student Eduardo and his wife Vanessa during their short return to Buffalo between an internship in Indy and visiting home in Venezuela for the holidays. We went for coffee in Snyder, NY less than a week before I return to Snyder, OK for the holidays.

Proud of friend and mentee Kazeem Olanrewaju on his NIH R16 grant. www.pvamu.edu/research/pos...

I got two pieces of good news today, which were timely as I am starting the onerous task of writing another MIRA submission over the next month. 1st I got the chair's letter supporting my promotion to full prof with positive notes from my colleagues and letter writers. 2nd a manuscript was accepted.

Our #PhysiBoSS tutorial is now available at Briefings in Bioinformatics: academic.oup.com/bib/article/.... Learn how to build #multiscale models with #Boolean intracellular signaling, without any code, using #PhysiCell Studio! Showing three simple examples, and an update of Ruscone's invasion model👇

When hosting seminar visitors for UB CBE, I love taking them to a local waterfall after dinner. Niagara Falls with Selen Cremaschi and Aurora Munguía-López.

We are excited to host Selen Cremaschi as the final external speaker of the UB CBE fall 2024 seminar series engineering.buffalo.edu/chemical-bio... #UBuffalo #UBCBE

Excited to work on Marc Birthwistle's team on this U01 project! news.clemson.edu/fighting-can...

Congratulations to Viviana Monje on being awarded an NSF RIEF grant as PI. Matilde Sanchez-Pena and I are proud mentors and co-investigators on the project. www.buffalo.edu/postdoc/news...

I finished the #WNYHikingChallenge! Big thanks to Joel for enabling me over the last 2 months to squeeze this in. Here are a few of my favorite pics from Allegany State Park, Little Rock City in Rock City State Forest, Letchworth State Park, Whirlpool State Park, and Eighteen Mile Creek County Park.