Welcome to phymbie
Physical Modelling in Biology, Immunology, and Ecology group
Welcome to phymbie, the Physical Modelling in Biology, Immunology, and Ecology group, in the Physics Department of Ryerson University.
The phymbie group was established on August 2007 with the Ryerson start-up fund. As the name implies, research in the phymbie group concentrates on applying computational and mathematical modelling techniques commonly used in Physics to solving important problems in Biology, Immunology, and Ecology. Phymbie is not an experimental group. The data used in our research is gathered elsewhere and obtained through our collaborators or through the literature.
The actual models, which range from simple ordinary differential equation systems to elaborate agent-based computer models, are typically implemented in C, python, or Octave. Most agent-based simulation are developed as clients for the Multi-Agent System Visualisation platform MASyV, developed and maintained by the phymbie group. MASyV is a free open-source software for Linux/Unix/Mac systems available for download on SourceForge.net. Phymbie group members have/acquire good mathematical and programming skills, and a rigorous and in-depth understanding of the systems they are modelling.
If you are interested in joining the phymbie group, check out the positions currently available within the group.
Group news
| 2011/11/25 | Catherine teaches a short course in NetLogo. | |
| 2011/08/15 | Andrea Schneider one of the two high school ROPES students working in the phymbie group this Summer featured in the DurhamRegion.com. | |
| 2011/07/25 | Mehdi, Nada, Shabman, and John present posters and Ben, Hana, and Catherine give talks at AMMCS Conference held at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, July 25-29, 2011. | |
| 2011/07/11 | Laura lands a prestigious NSERC CGS-M scholarship! This is in addition to her Summer NSERC USRA with the phymbie group. | |
| 2011/06/12 | Catherine and Laura teach the course on agent-based modelling at the 6th Annual Summer School on Computational Immunology held at Yale University, June 12-16, 2011. Catherine also presents a talk titled "Influenza infection in vitro: how math can teach viral assays new tricks" at the 1-day research Symposium on System Biology of Influenza associated with the Summer School on June 17, 2011. | |
| 2011/03/25 | Catherine will be giving a 50 min talk titled "Can my computer protect me against the flu?" at the Merck "Exploring Minds" Bioscience Lectures and Workshops event at Ryerson, April 19 and 20. | |
| 2011/03/25 | Ben and Laura's paper co-authored with our collaborators titled "Assessing the in vitro fitness of an oseltamivir-resistant seasonal A/H1N1 influenza strain using a mathematical model" published in PLoS ONE. | |
| 2011/03/14 | Catherine presents poster titled "How mathematical and computer models can enhance classic virological assays" at XIII ISRVI meeting in Rome, Italy. | |
| 2011/02/28 | The phymbie group is organizing a minisymposia titled "Mathematical and computational modelling of influenza" for AMMCS-2011, to be held July 25-29, 2011 in Waterloo. | |
| 2011/01/19 | Ben and Laura's paper co-authored with our collaborators titled "Design considerations in building in silico equivalents of common experimental influenza virus assays" published in Autoimmunity. |
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