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IMAG/MSM Working Group on Multiscale Modeling and Viral Pandemics Mini Seminars

Jan 13, 2022

Welcome - The meeting will start at 3PM ET

 

NOTE: THE MEETING WILL BE RECORDED, STREAMED AND PUBLICLY AVAILABLE�FOR THOSE MEMBERS UNABLE TO ATTEND

Agenda

  1. Welcome
  2. Links, people, other info
  3. Social media links
  4. Quick Announcements
  5. Upcoming Mini-Seminars and Request for Future Speakers
  6. Robert Hester, University of Mississippi Medical Center. Title: Multiscale modeling of Human Physiology.
  7. na
  8. Request for Further Business

 

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People

Co-Lead: Reinhard Laubenbacher, PhD

Department of Medicine

Laboratory for Systems Medicine

University of Florida

reinhard.laubenbacher@medicine.ufl.edu

Co-Lead: James A. Glazier, PhD

Dept. of Intelligent Systems Engineering and Biocomplexity Institute

Indiana University, Bloomington

jaglazier@gmail.com

Web Administration, Slack: James P. Sluka, PhD

Dept. of Intelligent Systems Engineering and Biocomplexity Institute

Indiana University, Bloomington

jsluka@indiana.edu

Activities Coordination: Bruce G. Shapiro, PhD, PMP

Laboratory for Systems Medicine

University of Florida

bruce.shapiro@medicine.ufl.edu

 

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Please follow the�group on Twitter!

https://twitter.com/MsmViral

If you could re-tweet the weekly announcements �(there are usually two, one for each speaker) �that would help boost attendance and community awareness.

 

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Announcements

Any short (~1 minute) items such as;

  • announcements
  • meetings
  • funding
  • publications
  • requests for help
  • ???

 

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Schedule for Upcoming Meetings and mini-Seminars

Jan 20:

  1. Catherine Beauchemin, Ryerson University.
  2. TBD

Jan 27:

  1. Stacey Smith?, University of Ottawa. Title: Is a COVID-19 Vaccine Likely to Make Things Worse?
  2. Vivek Kapur, Pennsylvania State University.

Request for future speakers (Jan 13, …)

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Rules of the Meeting

Please mute your microphone and hold questions until after the presentations

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Mini-SeminarMultiscale modeling of Human Physiology

Robert HesterUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center

HumMod is a model of human physiology comprising over 9000 dependent variables, and over 1500 independent parameters. It spans all major body systems, including circulatory, renal, respiratory, hepatic, gastrointestinal, neural, endocrine and muscular systems. Each system is built on one or more working hypotheses/models developed in the literature with reasonable support. These systems combine multiple tissues and their responses to hormones, metabolites, and physical forces. In the laboratory, such responses are considered under controlled circumstances. In the model, the simple mechanisms are tied together to produce feedback loops approximating the body’s own responses to physiological challenges. Current projects include: 1) simulations to understand how medical devices work and 2) simulating virtual populations for in silico clinical trials.

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Requests for Input/Suggestions

  

 

We would like the subgroup leads to prepare brief presentations for the Thursday meetings, please let us know when you would like to present

Ideas/help for publicising our Thursday mini-seminars more effectively and for speakers to invite

Suggestions for agenda items and approaches to organizing the Steering Committee Meetings more effectively

There have also been a number of requests for more explicit statements of goals and tasks from the WG leadership, we would appreciate your suggestions

Please contact Reinhard Laubenbacher, James Glazier, James Sluka or Bruce Shapiro with your ideas on all of these issues

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