Wednesday, Sep. 7
| Time | 9:00 - 10:30, Sep. 7 |
| Room | B |
Special symposium
Organizers:
Lotka-Volterra (LV) model is fundamental in population dynamics. The two-species LV model admits no isolated periodic orbits. It is known the three-species LV model can exhibit periodic and even chaotic dynamics (2 prey, one-predator case and prey-predator with intra-guild predation by the top predator). If we modify two-species LV type prey-predator by adopting Holling type II functional response, the model can have a periodic solution but the appearance of large amplitude limit cycles leads to the paradox of enrichment. Recently several interesting bifurcation scenarios have been found when the logistic growth for prey is substituted with growth including Allee effect. The purpose of the symposium is to summarize the complex dynamics known in simple population models and how the modification of functional response or the growth with Allee effect or inclusion of maturation delay can change the bifurcation scenario. Also we discuss on the effect given by these modifications on the stable coexistence and persistence of population.
Presenters and Titles:
Department of Biological Science, Graduate School of Science, Osaka Prefecture University
Department of Physics and Mathematics, College of Science and Engineering, Ayoama Guykin University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, IIT Kanpur
| Time | 9:00 - 10:30, Sep. 7 |
| Room | D |
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Controlling complex biological systems is one of the most important missions in basic biology and medical science. Especially in regenerative medicine, it is strongly required to establish non-empirical methods to regenerate cells or tissues artificially. Experimental methods have provided large information on interactions between bio-molecules. However, such network information is not sufficient to specify detail of the dynamics of systems. Recently, different theoretical methods were proposed independently, by which rational criteria to choose key nodes for controlling whole systems are given from structure of networks alone. In this symposium, we invite advanced researchers studying theoretical methods to control complex network systems. We discuss mathematical and practical aspects of these methods, and consider possible improvement and collaborations between different methods.
Presenters and Titles:
Kyoto University
Arizona State University
Pennsylvania State University
RIKEN
| Time | 9:00 - 10:30, Sep. 7 |
| Room | E |
Organizers:
Periodic or chaotic oscillations are observed in diverse biological phenomena at different spatiotemporal scales ranging from gene expression to mass flowering of forests.
These rhythmic phenomena are directly connected with the fitness of organisms, e.g. rhythmic patterns of plant starch metabolism to avoid carbon starvation.
In this session, recent findings about biological oscillations at different scales including cellular circadian rhythms of plants and mammals, growth patterns of plant tissue, and synchronization of plant reproduction will be presented.
The purpose of the session is (i) to provide the audiences with diverse topics of biological rhythms, and (ii) to develop our understanding of the oscillation phenomena by sharing different viewpoints obtained from the studies of distinct spatiotemporal scales.
Presenters and Titles:
Nagoya University
Hokkaido University
OIST
Kyushu University
| Time | 10:45 - 12:15, Sep. 7 |
| Room | B |
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In the field of cancer research, the demand of mathematical and theoretical analysis has recently been increasing. Based on tons of genomic data and tumor growth data with/without drugs, lots of mathematical and statistical models have been investigated for revealing the theory of cancer dynamics and evolution. In this symposium, we will present the up-to-date mathematical models of cancer based on experimental and clinical data and spread the opportunities that theoretical researchers study cancer.
Presenters and Titles:
Kyushu University
Radiation Effects Research Foundation
Harvard University
Kyushu University
| Time | 10:45 - 12:15, Sep. 7 |
| Room | D |
Organizers:
The purpose of this symposium is to bring together some new topics in network science, which are expected to be associated with mathematical biology. We will discuss possibility of new models of temporal networks, adaptive networks and epidemics on networks.
Presenters and Titles:
Kagawa University
Kyoto University
National Institute of Information and Communications Technology
Shizuoka University
| Time | 16:15 - 17:45, Sep. 7 |
| Room | B |
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Cancer progression can be considered as the consequences of evolution. Recently, lots of genomic data have been acquired due to the advancement of sequencing technologies, and research of the evolutionary process of cancer by genomic analysis and mathematical modeling is in attention. In this symposium, we will present the up-to-date mathematical and statistical analysis with experimental and clinical data and spread the opportunities that theoretical researchers study cancer.
Presenters and Titles:
Rutgers University
Shinshu University
Cancer Research UK
| Time | 16:15 - 17:45, Sep. 7 |
| Room | D |
Organizers:
Many ecosystems on earth have been formed under strong human activity. For the sustainable management of natural resources to be successful, we need to understand the coupling between social economic aspects and ecological and resource sciences. This is particularly important given the demands of increasing global population, environmental change and rising living standards (which lead to increased demand for resources). Mathematical and computational modeling has a great potential to improve our understanding of many aspects that are difficult to predict otherwise. In this symposium, we introduce several examples of coupled socio-economic and resource models, we discuss their common features and differences, and the future of this increasingly important section of mathematical biology.
Presenters and Titles:
Kyushu University
Pusan National University
University of Melbourne
Kyushu University
| Time | 16:15 - 17:45, Sep. 7 |
| Room | E |
Organizers:
When describing the complex dynamics of infectious diseases in the real world, heterogeneity, such as spatial heterogeneity and individual heterogeneity, is always an issue. Tons of structured population models have been proposed so far, we need to know what kind of model can reveal what. In this symposium five speakers will talk about the state-of-art analyses of the dynamics of infectious diseases at different scales from within-host to between host communities using the different model descriptions.
Presenters and Titles:
The University of Tokyo
SOKENDAI
Department of Mathematics, University College London
Graduate School of System Informatics, Kobe University
Department of Mathematics and Informatics, Ibaraki University
Thursday, Sep. 8
| Time | 9:00 - 10:30, Sep. 8 |
| Room | B |
Organizers:
Mathematical biology is often driven by purely theoretical considerations. Although theoretical contributions in themselves are extremely valuable, there is a huge potential for mathematical biology to add value to existing and new empirical data. To realize this potential it is necessary to open up a continuous dialogue between experimentally and theoretically oriented researchers from various disciplines who share the interest in biology. The proposed mini-symposium is intended to establish such a dialogue by illustrating several interesting case studies which greatly benefited, or could benefit, from mathematical modeling. Challenging questions are posed for future developments.
Presenters and Titles:
The University of Sydney
Tropical Biosphere Research Center, University of the Ryukyus
The University of Tokyo
The University of Tokyo
Commentators:
University of Melbourne
Hokkaido University
| Time | 9:00 - 10:30, Sep. 8 |
| Room | D |
Organizer:
Mathematical model of viral infections has a very important role in our quantitative understanding of viral dynamics. For instance, we can estimate the pathogenesis of viruses, evaluating the efficacy of anti viral drugs, predicting the viral dynamics, etc. In this symposium, we will present recent advances of mathematical modeling for viral infections.
Presenters and Titles:
Graduate School of Systems Life Sciences, Kyushu University
Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University
Department of Physics, Ryerson University
Department of Physics, Ryerson University
| Time | 9:00 - 10:30, Sep. 8 |
| Room | E |
Organizer:
With recent advancements in genotyping, phenotyping is now a bottleneck in development of several research fields in plant science (e.g. agricultural science, developmental and evolutionary biology). Particularly, morphological properties are the most important information but hardest to treat in plant phenotyping. Morphometrics is one of the candidates to relieve the bottleneck by providing quantifying, visualizing, analyzing and summarizing techniques. In this minisymposium, we focus on how to understand and interpret the morphological data of plants with genomic, developmental, and physiological information.
Presenters and Titles:
The University of Tokyo
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Institute for Sustainable Agro-ecosystem Services, The University of Tokyo
| Time | 10:45 - 12:15, Sep. 8 |
| Room | B |
Organizer:
Evolution of mutualism and its ecological consequences have recently been drawing a wider attention. For example, it is not obvious how mutualism is initially established between different species with different interests, how the evolutionary transition from parasitism to mutualism occurs, and how mutualism is stably maintained despite the possibility of exploitation by cheaters. In community ecology, it has been theoretically shown that mutualism destabilizes the community. This symposium aims to provide recent theoretical findings in mutualism studies and discuss future direction in this field.
Presenters and Titles:
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Osaka Prefecture University
SOKENDAI
Center for Ecological Research, Kyoto University
| Time | 10:45 - 12:15, Sep. 8 |
| Room | D |
Organizer:
Recent developments of the analysis for the PDE model relating to mathematical biology are discussed in this mini-symposia. Four speakers introduce reaction-diffusion approximation for non-local effects, amoeba behaviour, 2-dimensional traveling wave composed of convex curves and drift bifurcation of traveling waves.
Presenters and Titles:
Meiji University
University of Toyama
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Meiji University
| Time | 10:45 - 12:15, Sep. 8 |
| Room | E |
Organizers:
Cells have been extensively studied as a building block of living organisms in cell biology and mathematical biology. As a result, morphogenesis of standard cells like epithelia, fibroblasts or neurons are gradually understood. However, cells exhibit much diverse shape in the real world. In this symposium, we present several strange cell shapes which we cannot imagine from textbook knowledge together with current theoretical models that has been used to model cell form. By combining these biological examples and theoretical models, we try to clarify the possibility and limit of cell shape modeling in mathematical biology.
Presenters and Titles:
Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences
The University Museum, Hokkaido University
Institute of Molecular Embryology and Genetics, Kumamoto University
Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine
Department of Intelligent Systems Engineering and Biocomplexity Institute, Indiana University
| Time | 15:45 - 17:15, Sep. 8 |
| Room | B |
Organizer:
The purpose of the symposium is to investigate, by three talks, whether or not dynamical system models for biological phenomena are really relevant to, or capture certain aspects of, the biological systems which the differential equations are originally intended to model. It is not intended to assert that our views are the definite ones. Through our talks, we attempt to set a stage for open discussion.
Presenters and Titles:
Hiroshima University
Iwate University
Kobe University
| Time | 15:45 – 17:15, Sep. 8 |
| Room | E |
Special symposium
Organizers:
Turing used the principle of diffusion-driven instability (DDI, for short) to explain how a spatially homogeneous state can develop spontaneously a spatially nontrivial structure, i.e., pattern. However, actual biological phenomena take place in more or less non-uniform environments. In some cases organisms themselves create non-uniformity of the environment. Therefore, it is very important to understand quantitatively the effect of spatial heterogeneity on resulting patterns.
The purpose of this symposium is to explore the frontiers of mathematical researches on models of pattern formation that utilize partial differential equations, laying emphasis on how spatial heterogeneity influences patterns. Moreover, this mini-symposium is co-organized by Japanese and Chinese mathematicians in the hope of promoting collaboration not only between biologists and mathematicians, but also collaboration among young scientists in Eastern Asia.
Presenters and Titles:
Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Tohoku University
Center for PDE, East China Normal University
Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University
Center for PDE, East China Normal University
Friday, Sep. 9
| Time | 9:00 – 10:30, Sep. 9 |
| Room | B |
Organizer:
Hans Meinhardt was a giant and pioneer of mathematical biology in the field of developmental biology. He set up various mathematical models based on reaction-diffusion systems and was the first person who made systematic use of computer simulations in explanations of developmental phenomena. He had brought about positive impacts on this field; however we lost him last February. So, in this symposium scientists who have been working on subjects closely related to him get together and continue unachieved discussions with him. We will hope to deepen our understanding of current topics in the study of pattern formation and reaction-diffusion systems.
Presenters and Titles:
Tohoku University
Osaka University
Meiji University
QBiC RIKEN
| Time | 9:00 – 10:30, Sep. 9 |
| Room | D |
Special symposium
Organizers:
Our special symposium highlights the halfway achievements of abovementioned project that excels into prediction and premonitory sign detection of pandemic, unifying epidemiological, genetic and other diverse datasets, supported by Japan Science and Technology Agency. The symposium aims to share a mixture of different mathematical modeling approaches to infectious diseases and enhance cutting edge collaborations among researchers who share common interest in handling infectious disease data. Especially, the organizers are pleased to have invited Dr Cornelia Pokalyuk from Germany to share important insights of population genetic modeling to evolutionary dynamics of viruses.
Presenters and Titles:
Universität Magdeburg
Hokkaido University
Hokkaido University
Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University
| Time | 9:00 – 10:30, Sep. 9 |
| Room | E |
Organizer:
Ecological systems are highly dynamic and complex across a range of organization levels from individuals to ecosystems and usually consist of interactions between different organization levels. Empirical data to reveal the ecological complexity is accumulating, thanks to long-term ecological monitoring and recent technical revolutions (metagenomics, transcriptomics and stable isotope analysis, for example). However, mechanistic understanding of ecological system is still not straightforward, partly due to the difficulties in identifying the interactions, or causalities, between entities occurring at multiple spatio-temporal scales. This is especially true when a controlled experiment is not possible - which is often the case in ecological studies of higher organization levels. In this session, recent development in mathematical or statistical modeling to overcome the difficulty and its application to empirical data of a range of organization levels will be introduced and discussed.
Presenters and Titles:
National Taiwan University
Ryukoku University
Ryukoku University
National Taiwan University
| Time | 10:45 – 12:15, Sep. 9 |
| Room | B |
Organizer:
To inform the audience of recent advances in our understanding of the cost-benefit analysis in biology, we discuss how mathematical modeling can help decision-making in various practical situations. The symposium is designed to be a fine example of how, using mathematics in the context of cost-benefit studies, we can extract unique and novel information that helps advance the knowledge in a number of subfields in biology (e.g. ecology, epidemiology, virology, etc.).
Presenters and Titles:
Ruđer Bošković Institute
Yokohama National University
nterdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu University
| Time | 10:45 – 12:15, Sep. 9 |
| Room | D |
Organizers:
Recently, Lyapunov functional approaches for proving the global asymptotic stability of equilibria have been widely studied and developed by many researchers in the field of mathematical biology. The purposes of this minisymposium are to share and extend the knowledge on the theory of Lyapunov functions and their applications to mathematical models with various structures.
Presenters and Titles:
Wilfrid Laurier University
School of Mathematical Science, Heilongjiang University
Okayama University
Okayama University
Okayama University
Shimane University
| Time | 10:45 – 12:15, Sep. 9 |
| Room | E |
Organizers:
Mathematical studies have contributed to biology from different aspects. For example, one direct contribution is to find tendencies or rules by analyzing data, which can be bases for revealing mechanisms underlying focal phenomena. In addition to this, proving concepts by developing minimal models that can reproduce observations, and providing testable hypotheses or predictions for issues unsolved or difficult to experimentally approach. The purpose of this symposium is to show those different approaches to cellular and developmental biological phenomena with different theories such as differential geometry, cellular mechanics, and dynamical system.
Presenters and Titles:
RIKEN
Hosei University
Hiroshima University
PRESTO, JST
| Time | 14:00 – 15:30, Sep. 9 |
| Room | B |
Organizer:
To inform the audience of recent advances in our understanding of the cost-benefit analysis in biology, we discuss how mathematical modeling can help decision-making in various practical situations. The symposium is designed to be a fine example of how, using mathematics in the context of cost-benefit studies, we can extract unique and novel information that helps advance the knowledge in a number of subfields in biology (e.g. ecology, epidemiology, virology, etc.).
Presenters and Titles:
National Institute of Public Health
Soongsil University
Kyushu University, JST PRESTO and CREST
| Time | 14:00 – 15:30, Sep. 9 |
| Room | D |
Organizers:
It is increasingly recognized that real-time mathematical modeling plays a key role in clarifying the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases and estimating the effectiveness of interventions including immunization practice. This session aims to elaborate the formality of mathematical modeling of emerging infectious diseases and propagate the trend of real time modeling studies in the field of mathematical biology. A series of case studies on emerging infectious diseases including Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and Zika virus infection are presented, along with modeling of vaccine preventable disease, especially vaccination against rubella is designed using a variety of mathematical models.
Presenters and Titles:
Hokkaido University
Hokkaido University
Hokkaido University
Hokkaido University
Institute of Statistical Mathematics
| Time | 14:00 – 15:30, Sep. 9 |
| Room | E |
Special symposium
Organizers:
Dispersal and migration influence arrays of ecological setups of organisms, from allelic distribution to community compositions. Dispersal is, at the same time, subject to diverse selective pressures, and thus an evolving trait by natural selection (e.g., kin competition, sib-mating avoidance, resource heterogeneity). Therefore, studies on evolutionary ecology of dispersal and migration have been of pivotal importance in population ecology. In the present symposium, we review our current understandings of dispersal and migration from evolutionary and ecological points. Specifically, we illustrate different theoretical approaches to model the evolution of dispersal and migration. Each speaker briefly reviews their recent projects, and highlight the future directions and steps to enhance the elaboration of studies of dispersal.
Presenters and Titles:
Kyushu University
College de France, France
University of Minnesota
Kyoto University