Media

Media Coverage

2024 VTNews, ”Innovation, entrepreneurship, and service celebrated”
2024 VTNews, ”Data visualization aids Virginia Tech cancer researcher’s quest for better brain tumor treatment”
2023 VTNews, ”FBRI spinoff Cairina Inc. translates science into improved cancer treatments”
2020 Knowable Course, ”Work From Home (During a Pandemic)”
2018 University of Maastricht News, ”A call for integrated metastatic management”
2012 Interview with NPR Affiliate Pauline Davies, ”Electrical Properties of the Cell”

Thought Leadership

Invited Talks

Spring 2024 — Department of Mathematical Biology Colloquium, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA — A Call for Integrated Metastatic Management of Prostate Cancer
Spring 2023 — Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC — Interstitial Fluid Flow in Cancer: Implications for Disease Progression and Treatment
Summer 2021 — Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine, USC, Los Angeles, CA — A Call for Integrated Metastatic Management of Prostate Cancer
Fall 2019 — Keynote, “Novel Approaches to Drug Resistance” Workshop, Yale Peabody Natural Science Museum — A Call for Integrated Metastatic Management
Fall 2019 — Systems Biology Institute Colloquium, Yale University Institute for Biospheric Studies, West Haven, CT — A Call for Integrated Metastatic Management of Prostate Cancer
Summer 2019 — Conflict, Competition, Cooperation and Complexity Workshop, Kasteel Vaalsbroek, Netherlands — Development of Integrated Metastatic Management for Advanced Prostate Cancer
Summer 2019 — Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering Colloquium, Maastricht University, Netherlands — Optimal Control to Develop Therapeutic Strategies for Metastatic Prostate Cancer
Spring 2018 — Keynote, “Understanding Cancer Through Evolutionary Game Theory” Workshop, Lorentz Center, Leiden, Netherlands — Cancer is Not Unique: Veterinary, Bacterial, Viral, and Pest-Management Games We Are Winning
Summer 2017 — Conflict, Competition, Cooperation and Complexity Workshop, City, University of London, UK — Optimizing Therapy of Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer
Spring 2017 — Gordon Research Conference, Physics of Cancer, Grand Galvez, Galveston, TX — Evolution-Based Therapies
Spring 2012 — Electrical Properties of Cells Workshop, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ — Intracellular Ion Concentrations and Effects on Pathway Dynamics

Contributed Talks & Posters

Fall 2023 — Research in Progress Seminar, Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, Roanoke, VA — Interstitial Fluid Flow in Cancer: Implications for Progression and Treatment
Fall 2023 — Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA — Interstitial Fluid Flow as a Predictor for Glioblastoma Invasion, Progression, and Recurrence
Spring 2023 — Gordon Research Conference, Physics of Cancer, Galveston, TX — Interstitial Fluid Flow as a Predictor for Glioblastoma Invasion, Progression, and Recurrence
Summer 2022 — Fralin Biomedical Research Institute Annual Retreat, Homestead Resort, Hot Springs, VA — Interstitial Fluid Flow in Glioblastoma
Fall 2020 — Cancer Adaptive Therapy Models Meeting (Virtual) — Optimal Control to Reach Eco-Evolutionary Stability in Metastatic Castrate-Resistant Prostate Cancer
Summer 2017 — Physical Sciences in Oncology Symposium, Northwestern University, Evanston, IN — Electrostatic Forces in Cancer Cell Biology
Spring 2017 — Cancer Systems Biology Consortium – PS-ON Joint Meeting, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ — A Pilot Study of Adaptive Abiraterone Therapy for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
Fall 2014 — Physical Sciences in Oncology Annual Meeting, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL — Darwinian Dynamics and Current Concepts of Driver and Passenger Mutations
Spring 2014 — Physical Sciences in Oncology Annual Meeting, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL — Darwinian Dynamics and Current Concepts of Driver and Passenger Mutations
Spring 2013 — Physical Sciences in Oncology Annual Meeting, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ — Divergent and Convergent Evolution in Metastases Suggest Treatment Strategies Based on Specific Metastatic Sites
Spring 2012 — Physical Sciences in Oncology Annual Meeting, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL — Electrodynamics and Nanoscale Fluid Dynamics of Messenger Proteins and Nuclear Pore Complexes
Spring 2011 — Physical Sciences in Oncology Annual Meeting, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA — The Intracellular Physical Microenvironment in Normal and Cancer Cell Function

Teaching

2023 — Guest lecturer, Physics in Medicine (undergraduate), College of Charleston, Charleston, SC — A Call for Integrated Metastatic Management: Mathematical Modeling in Cancer
2023–24 — Guest lecturer, Quantitative Organ Systems Physiology (graduate), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA — Glioblastoma Flow Quantification: Multiscale Integration of MRI and IHC Data
2018–23 — Guest lecturer, Cancer Engineering (graduate), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA — Mathematical Oncology: Why We Model and How We Do It