Leah Edelstein-Keshet

The classic Lotka-Volterra model for species competition has traditionally been associated with ecological settings where living species compete for limited resources. Here I will discuss two recent examples from work in my group where similar ideas...

Several years ago, Dr Kathryn Isaac, a UBC professor and clinical surgeon contacted me with an intriguing problem. In her work on cosmetic reconstructive for post-breast-cancer-surgery patients, she encounters cases of failure that result (weeks or...

The course will be taught at UBC (Math 563) as an online course, with web-based material, archived and live lectures and interactive discussion sessions. The relevant biological topics and mathematical background needed to understand current research...

Dynein and kinesin are families of molecular motors that walk on microtubules (long structural biopolymers in living cells), transporting cargo such as vesicles along the cell length. Here I describe a recent project to model the distribution of...

A mutually inhibitory Rac-Rho circuit is emerging as a central, regulatory hub that can affect the shape and of eukaryotic cells. Rac and Rho are members of the Rho-family GTPases that regulate cell polarization and motility by controlling assembly...