ZIH-Kolloquium 2025
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28. Januar 2025, 11:00 MEZ, APB-1096/ Online BBB:
Prof. Leah Edelstein-Keshet (Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada) - „Data, models and simulations of single cell motility“
Immune cells such as neutrophils (white blood cells) can navigate to sites of infection. Their directed motility is regulated by patterns of activity of intracellular proteins (such as Rac). That activity determines where filamentous actin (F-actin) will assemble and power cell protrusion. Modeling these systems has been one of my interests for some time. A challenge has always been to link spatial (PDE) models of the relevant proteins to cell shape and motion. Here I will describe two recent projects that greatly benefitted from the Morpheus software made publicly available by the TU Dresden group (Lutz Brusch, Jörn Starruß). In (1), a theoretical PDE model for Rac and F-actin that we studied analytically (PhD student Jack Hughes and collaborator Arik Yochelis) was visualized in Morpheus simulations of motile cells to show dynamic transitions between polar and ruffling cells (MSc student Jupiter Algorta). In (2), optogenetic experiments by Jason Town and Orion Weiner (UCSF) were modeled and simulated in Morpheus (by Jupiter Algorta) to explore the hypothesis that Rac promotes its own local inhibitor. Morpheus allows us to implement the PDE dynamics on the edge of a cell and to track the protrusion, motion, and response to stimuli of that cell.
(1) J. M. Hughes, S. Modai, L. Edelstein-Keshet, A. Yochelis: Travelling waves and wave pinning (polarity): Switching between random and directional cell motility. arXiv:2410.12213, 2024.
(2) J. Algorta, A. Fele-Paranj, J. M. Hughes, L. Edelstein-Keshet: Modeling and Simulating Single and Collective Cell Motility. Cold Spring Harbour Perspectives in Biology, 2024.
Prof. Leah Edelstein-Keshet (Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada)
Prof. Edelstein-Keshet studied Mathematics at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Canada) and received her doctorate in Applied Mathematics from the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel) in 1982, where she worked with Lee Segel.
Via Brown University (Providence, USA) and Duke University (Durham, USA), she moved to the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada) Dept. of Mathematics in 1989.
Her research focuses on mathematical models of cell motility, and collective behavior. She is the author of a popular interdisciplinary text book „Mathematical Models in Biology“ (SIAM). Prof. Edelstein-Keshet is a former president of the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB, 1995-1997) and Fellow of SMB and SIAM (2014). She was awarded the Arthur Winfree Prize of SMB (2021), the John von Neumann Prize Lecturer of SIAM (2022) and the CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize of the Canadian Mathematics institutes (2025).
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