Published Models

Introduction Larvae of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans aggregate into clusters of several hundred moving individuals when starved during their first larval stage (see video below). Avery et al. proposed that starved larvae produce and respond chemotactically to two diffusible chemical signals, a short-range attractant and a longer range repellent.

Introduction Collective motion of human breast cancer cells of the cell line MDA-MB-231 was studied by Lee et al. for individual crawling cells, cell doublets, cell quadruplets and for confluent populations on a two-dimensional substrate.

Introduction Brook et al. studied the effect of distinct immune phenotypes on cellular-scale viral propagation in three mammalian kidney cell lines with different interferon pathways (IFN). Differences in the IFN response upon pathogen invasion allowed to experimentally observe, model and numerically simulate viral dynamics in cells with

Introduction In Jagiella et al. 2017 a quantitative single cell-based mathematical model for multi-cellular tumor spheroids was parametrized by Bayesian inference for different scenarios of nutrition and oxygen supply. The simulations generate of the order of a million individual cells.

Multiscale simulation of EMT by minimal signaling circuit Introduction We model epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) by first assembling an ODE model for intracellular Yes-associated protein (YAP) signalling and then embedding this single cell model within individual cells in a multiscale simulation.

Simulated sheet morphology for YAP knockdown (KD) and overexpression (OE) Introduction We model epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) by first assembling an ODE model for intracellular Yes-associated protein (YAP) signalling and then embedding this single cell model within individual cells in a multiscale simulation.

Multiple models in epithelial-mesenchymal transitions (EMT) Introduction We model epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) by first assembling an ODE model for intracellular Yes-associated protein (YAP) signalling and then embedding this single cell model within individual cells in a multiscale simulation.

Multiscale model of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) with intracellular TGFβ signaling circuit Introduction The growth factor TGFβ regulates the snail-zeb intracellular circuit that affects EMT by controlling the levels of E and N-cadherin expression.

Autoregulatory multicellular incoherent feedforward loop (mIFFL) that generates the 7-stripe even-skipped (eve) expression pattern in Drosophila melanogaster embryogenesis Introduction This model demonstrates the influence of maternal effect genes and gap genes on the even-skipped (eve) gene.

This model also requires the separate file boundary.tiff. Introduction The immune system plays an important role in controlling infections and tumors. Knowledge about the mechanisms through which the immune system accomplishes this can be exploited to develop immunotherapies.