Mathematics, Developmental Biology and Tumour Growth: UIMP-RSME Lluis A. Santaló Summer School, September 11-15, 2006, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Santander,...
- ISBN-10
- 0821846639
- ISBN-13
- 9780821846636
- Category
- Biological models
- Pages
- 123
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- American Mathematical Soc.
- Authors
- Fernando Giráldez, Miguel Ángel Herrero
Description
Developmental biology and tumour growth are two important areas of current research where mathematics increasingly provides powerful new techniques and insights. The unfolding complexity of living structures from egg to embryo gives rise to a number of difficult quantitative problems that are ripe for mathematical models and analysis. Understanding this early development process involves the study of pattern formation, which mathematicians view through the lens of dynamical systems. This book addresses several issues in developmental biology, including Notch signalling pathway integration and mesenchymal compartment formation. Tumour growth is one of the primary challenges of cancer research. Its study requires interdisciplinary approaches involving the close collaboration of mathematicians, biologists and physicians. The summer school addressed angiogenesis, modelling issues arising in radiotherapy, and tumour growth viewed from the individual cell and the relation to a multiphase-fluid flow picture of that process. This book is suitable for researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates interested in mathematical methods of developmental biology or tumour growth.
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