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This special issue of Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering contains
selected papers which were presented at the US-SA Workshop on ``Mathematical
Methods in Systems Biology and Population Dynamics'' held at the African
Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Muizenberg, South Africa,
January 4-7, 2012. The workshop was originally planned as a small US-SA
meeting, but with the growing interest of participants from other countries,
we ended up with about 60 participants representing 16 countries from Europe,
Africa and even Asia and Australia. Topics addressed at the workshop included
the spread of infectious diseases and the growing need for robust and reliable
models in ecology, both of special importance in the host country of South
Africa where research naturally has been focused on fighting disease and
epidemics like HIV/AIDS, malaria and others. In the US, on the other hand, a
strong emphasis exists on systems biology and on its aspects related to
cancer. Therefore, a second focus area of the workshop was on improved and more
realistic models for the dynamic progression and treatment of various types of
cancer, a truly globally challenging problem. We would also like to take the
opportunity to thank all the sponsors: the National Science Foundation and the
Society for Mathematical Biology from the US side, the National Research
Foundation of South Africa with institutional support of AIMS, the
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban and Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville for making this event possible.
For more information please click the “Full Text” above.
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Abstract
This special issue of Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering contains
selected papers which were presented at the US-SA Workshop on ``Mathematical
Methods in Systems Biology and Population Dynamics'' held at the African
Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) in Muizenberg, South Africa,
January 4-7, 2012. The workshop was originally planned as a small US-SA
meeting, but with the growing interest of participants from other countries,
we ended up with about 60 participants representing 16 countries from Europe,
Africa and even Asia and Australia. Topics addressed at the workshop included
the spread of infectious diseases and the growing need for robust and reliable
models in ecology, both of special importance in the host country of South
Africa where research naturally has been focused on fighting disease and
epidemics like HIV/AIDS, malaria and others. In the US, on the other hand, a
strong emphasis exists on systems biology and on its aspects related to
cancer. Therefore, a second focus area of the workshop was on improved and more
realistic models for the dynamic progression and treatment of various types of
cancer, a truly globally challenging problem. We would also like to take the
opportunity to thank all the sponsors: the National Science Foundation and the
Society for Mathematical Biology from the US side, the National Research
Foundation of South Africa with institutional support of AIMS, the
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban and Southern Illinois University
Edwardsville for making this event possible.
For more information please click the “Full Text” above.
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