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This week at BIRS: Advancing Computational Drug Design: New Mathematical approaches from Multiscale to AI birs.ca/events/2026/5-…

Michael Getz (Indiana University), Corneal Stromal Wound Healing: Modeling Cell Migration and ECM Remodeling in Anisotropic Environments birs.ca/events/2026/5-…

Theodore Kolokolnikov (Dalhousie University), Recurrent and chaotic outbreaks in SIR model with variable or random infection rate birs.ca/events/2026/5-…

Daniel Bouvard (CRNRS), Decoding Osteosarcoma Metastasis Through Cell Adhesion and Mechanical Adaptation birs.ca/events/2026/5-…

Nir Gov (Weizmann Institute), Decision making and chemotaxis of branched cells in complex environments birs.ca/events/2026/5-…

Roeland Merks (Leiden University), Hybrid cellular Potts models of cell migration in interaction with the extracellular matrix birs.ca/events/2026/5-…

Jiwon Kim (Brown University), Collective transitions from orbiting to matrix invasion in three-dimensional multicellular spheroids birs.ca/events/2026/5-…

Sofie Verhees (University of British Columbia), Modelling the dynamics of focal adhesions in cell migration using geometric surface PDEs birs.ca/events/2026/5-…

Ian Wong (Brown University), Mechanobiology of Cancer Invasion and Metastasis Mediated by 3D Extracellular Matrix birs.ca/events/2026/5-…

#NextatBIRS A Roadmap towards Developing Mechanobiochemical Models, May 10 - 15, 2026  birs.ca/event/26w5573 #ComputationalModelling #PDE #BioChemistry #biophysics #BioMedical #CancerResearch #ArtificialCells @NSF-MPS #DMSFunded @Innovation_AB @NSERC_CRSNG @CRSNG_NSERC

#NextatBIRS-@IMAG_UGR Multivariate Splines for Inferential Data Science, May 10 - 16, 2026 birs.ca/event/26w5609 #NumericalAnalysis #Statistics #DataScience

Svetlana Sapelnikova (SVConsulting.ca), Why marketing ≠ sales and sales pitch ≠ VC pitch – Go-to-market perspective birs.ca/events/2026/5-…

Riya Ganguly (Edmonton), From Lab to Launch: Turning Innovative Research into Businesses – IP perspective birs.ca/events/2026/5-…

Joel Martin (NRC), TBA - Government Research Perspective birs.ca/events/2026/5-…

Jacopo Zattoni (University of Alberta), The Hyperphosphorylation of MAP-Tau in Alzheimer's Disease: Computational Insights and Potential Therapeutic Actions birs.ca/events/2026/5-…

Kathleen Wilkie (Toronto Metropolitan University), Understanding the Bias of Standard Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy Models birs.ca/events/2026/5-…

Ratmir Derda (48Hour Discovery), Using data from DNA-encoded molecular libraries to train accurate predictive ML models for drug discovery birs.ca/events/2026/5-…

Khaled Barakat (Thoth Biosimulations Inc), AI-MedCraft: An AI-Driven Platform for Multi-Objective Drug Discovery birs.ca/events/2026/5-…

Nicolas Moitessier (Department of Chemistry), Can we teach chemistry to computers? birs.ca/events/2026/5-…

Tyler Luchko (California State University, Northridge), Solvation Tools for Drug Design: Methods for Waters, Ions, and Large Complexes birs.ca/events/2026/5-…