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Catherine A.A. Beauchemin
Associate Professor, Physics
Catherine Beauchemin is originally from Montreal. She received her undergraduate degree in Computational Physics from the University of Ottawa in 2001 and has done research in NeuroPhysics under the supervision of Dr. André Longtin. She got her Ph.D. under the supervision of Dr. Jack Tuszynski in the Physics Department of the University of Alberta in 2005, working on spatiotemporal modelling of viral infections. She was a postdoctoral fellow jointly at the Los Alamos National Laboratory with Dr. Alan S. Perelson, and at the Adaptive Computation Laboratory in the Computer Science Department of the University of New Mexico with Dr. Stephanie Forrest. She is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Ryerson University. Her research interest is in self-organizing systems, and more particularly in mathematical and computer modelling of infectious disease dynamics.

Mailing Address:
Department of Physics
Ryerson University
350 Victoria Street
Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3 		Office: Kerr Hall East (KHE) 329G   [Map]
Phone: (416) 979-5000 ext. 2508
Fax: (416) 979-5343
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I am always looking for students and postdocs. For more info, please visit the Jobs page.


Research Interests

The dynamics and mechanisms of self-organizing systems, computational/mathematical modelling of self-organizing systems, with a particular interest in modelling the dynamics of diseases and the immune system. To learn more about the type of research conducted in my group, visit the Research and Publications page.



Études - Studies

  • Ph.D. Biophysics, University of Alberta (2005)
       Advisor:   Jack Tuszynski
       Dissertation:   Spatiotemporal Modelling of Viral Infection Dynamics [PDF]

  • B.Sc. Physique numérique, Université d'Ottawa (2001)
       Advisor:   André Longtin (undergraduate project)
       Project:   L'influence du bruit sur la dynamique d'un neurone [PDF (French)]


Teaching




Publications

  1. Iwami, S, BP Holder, CAA Beauchemin, S Morita, T Tada, K Sato, T Igarashi, and T Miura. Quantification system for the viral dynamics of a highly pathogenic simian/human immunodeficiency virus based on an in vitro experiment and a mathematical model. Retrovirology, 9(1):18, 2012. doi:10.1186/1742-4690-9-18

  2. Beauchemin, CAA. Agent-Based Models in Infectious Disease and Immunology. Entry in Björn Engquist, editor, Encyclopedia of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Springer-Verlag, Germany, Dec 2012.
    [Online: Publisher's website]

  3. Holder, BP, LE Liao, P Simon, G Boivin, and CAA Beauchemin. Design considerations in building in silico equivalents of common experimental influenza virus assays and the benefits of such an approach. Autoimmunity, 44(4), 2011. doi:10.3109/08916934.2011.523267

  4. Holder, BP, P Simon, LE Liao, Y Abed, X Bouhy, CAA Beauchemin, and G Boivin. Assessing the in vitro fitness of an oseltamivir-resistant seasonal A/H1N1 influenza strain using a mathematical model. PLoS ONE, 6(3):e14767, 2011. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014767

  5. Simon, P, BP Holder, X Bouhy, Y Abed, CAA Beauchemin, and G Boivin. The I222V neuraminidase mutation has a compensatory role in the replication of an oseltamivir-resistant A/H3N2 E119V mutant. J. Clin. Microbiol., 49(2):715-717, 2011. doi:10.1128/JCM.01732-10

  6. Holder, BP, and CAA Beauchemin. Exploring the effect of implementing different biological delays in constructing kinetic models of influenza infection within a host or cell culture. BMC Public Health, 11(Suppl 1):S10, 2011. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-11-S1-S10

  7. Beauchemin, CAA, and A Handel. A review of mathematical models of influenza A infections within a host or cell culture: Lessons learned and challenges ahead. BMC Public Health, 11(Suppl 1):S7, 2011. doi:10.1186/1471-2458-11-S1-S7

  8. Dobrovolny, HM, R Gieschke, BE Davies, NL Jumbe, and CAA Beauchemin. Neuraminidase inhibitors for treatment of human and avian strain influenza: A comparative modeling study. J. Theor. Biol., 269(1):234-244, 2011. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.10.017

  9. Mitchell, H, D Levin, S Forrest, CAA Beauchemin, J Tipper, J Knight, N Donart, RC Layton, J Pyles, P Gao, KS Harrod, AS Perelson, and F Koster. Higher replication efficiency of 2009 (H1N1) pandemic influenza than seasonal and avian strains: Kinetics from epithelial cell culture and computational modeling. J. Virol., 85(2):1125-1135, 2011. doi:10.1128/JVI.01722-10

  10. Dobrovolny, HM, MJ Baron, R Gieschke, BE Davies, NL Jumbe, and CAA Beauchemin. Exploring cell tropism as a possible contributor to influenza infection severity. PLoS ONE, 5(11):e13811, 2010. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013811

  11. Craddock, TJA, C Beauchemin, and JA Tuszynski. Information processing mechanisms in microtubules at physiological temperature: Model predictions for experimental tests. BioSystems, 97(1):28-34, 2009. doi:10.1016/j.biosystems.2009.04.001

  12. Bauer, AL, CAA Beauchemin, and AS Perelson. Agent-based modeling of host-pathogen systems: The successes and challenges. Inform. Sciences, 179(10):1379-1389, 2009. doi:10.1016/j.ins.2008.11.012
    [Draft: arXiv:0807.0247 q-bio.CB]

  13. Beauchemin, CAA, JJ McSharry, GL Drusano, JT Nguyen, GT Went, RM Ribeiro, and AS Perelson. Modeling amantadine treatment of influenza A virus in vitro. J. Theor. Biol., 254(2):439-451, 2008. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.05.031

  14. Beauchemin, C, NM Dixit, and AS Perelson. Characterizing T cell movement within lymph nodes in the absence of antigen. J. Immunol., 178(9):5505-5512, 2007.
    [Published: J. Immunol.]

  15. Forrest, S, and C Beauchemin. Computer immunology. Immunol. Rev., 216(1):176-197, 2007. doi:10.1111/j.1600-065X.2007.00499.x

  16. Beauchemin, C, S Forrest, and FT Koster. Modeling influenza viral dynamics in tissue. In H Bersini and J Carneiro, editor, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Artificial Immune Systems, ICARIS 2006, pages 23-36, 4-6 September, Oeiras, Portugal, 2006. Springer Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/11823940_3

  17. Beauchemin, C. Probing the effects of the well-mixed assumption on viral infection dynamics. J. Theor. Biol., 242(2):464-477, 2006. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.03.014
    [Draft: arXiv:q-bio.CB/0505043]

  18. Baccam, P, C Beauchemin, CA Macken, FG Hayden, and AS Perelson. Kinetics of influenza A virus infection in humans. J. Virol., 80(15):7590-7599, 2006. doi:10.1128/JVI.01623-05

  19. Beauchemin, C, J Samuel, and J Tuszynski. A simple cellular automaton model for influenza A viral infections. J. Theor. Biol., 232(2):223-234, 2005. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.08.001
    [Draft: arXiv:q-bio.CB/0402012]

  20. Voorhees, B, and C Beauchemin. Point mutations and transitions between cellular automata attractor basins. Complex Systems, 15(1), 2004.
    [Draft: arXiv:nlin.CG/0306033] [Published: Complex Systems]





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