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A Probabilistic Modeling Analysis Of The Longitudinal Immune Response To Infection And Vaccination Across Demographic Groups And Pulmonary Symptoms, James O'Hanlon, Kaitlyn Sullivan, Lyndsey M. Muehling, Glenda Canderan, Jie Sun, Judith A. Woodfolk, Jeffrey M. Wilson, Rayanne A. Luke Jan 2026

A Probabilistic Modeling Analysis Of The Longitudinal Immune Response To Infection And Vaccination Across Demographic Groups And Pulmonary Symptoms, James O'Hanlon, Kaitlyn Sullivan, Lyndsey M. Muehling, Glenda Canderan, Jie Sun, Judith A. Woodfolk, Jeffrey M. Wilson, Rayanne A. Luke

Spora: A Journal of Biomathematics

Antibody and cytokine kinetics describe the dynamic response to immune events such as infection and vaccination. These dynamics are not fully understood, and mathematical characterization may help explain variability across demographic groups and pulmonary symptoms post-acute infection. We fit time-dependent probability models to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) data to obtain distributions of longitudinal antibody response and cytokine values. To assess differences between groups, an overlap metric is applied to the modeled response curves. Our antibody models suggest significant differences between male and female populations and demonstrate deficient antibody responses of less-healthy groups such as smokers. Our cytokine …


Managing Multi-Drug Resistance: An Evolutionary Game Theory And Optimal Control Approach, Shukhrat Nasrulloev Jan 2026

Managing Multi-Drug Resistance: An Evolutionary Game Theory And Optimal Control Approach, Shukhrat Nasrulloev

Theses and Dissertations

Multi-drug resistance is an evolutionary process in which treatment eliminates sensitive cells, allowing resistant clones to dominate. This thesis investigates this process using a framework integrating population dynamics, evolutionary game theory, and optimal control theory. We develop a two-population logistic growth model describing competition between drug-sensitive and drug-resistant cells under treatment, construct dose-dependent payoff matrices and replicator dynamics to characterize evolutionary competition, and derive a critical drug level Dcrit = (rS - rR)/(dS - dR) at which resistant cells gain a fitness advantage. An optimal control problem is formulated via Pontryagin's Maximum Principle to identify schedules …


Probabilistic Modeling Of Antibody Kinetics Post Infection And Vaccination, Rayanne Luke, Prajakta Bedekar, Anthony J. Kearsley Nov 2025

Probabilistic Modeling Of Antibody Kinetics Post Infection And Vaccination, Rayanne Luke, Prajakta Bedekar, Anthony J. Kearsley

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Testing The Effect Of Acetaminophen Overdose On The Liver And The Role Of Biomarkers To Predict Death Or Survival, Christine Brasic Nov 2020

Testing The Effect Of Acetaminophen Overdose On The Liver And The Role Of Biomarkers To Predict Death Or Survival, Christine Brasic

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Mathematics Saves Lives: Models And Signals Enabling Medicine And Biology, Raina Robeva Oct 2019

Mathematics Saves Lives: Models And Signals Enabling Medicine And Biology, Raina Robeva

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Transient Dynamics Of Infection Transmission In An Intensive Care Unit, Christopher Short, Matthew S. Mietchen, Eric T. Lofgren Oct 2019

Transient Dynamics Of Infection Transmission In An Intensive Care Unit, Christopher Short, Matthew S. Mietchen, Eric T. Lofgren

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Not Just Either/Or: Discrete And Continuous Models Play Nicely Together In A Model Of Hospital Infection, Lester Caudill, Barry Lawson Oct 2019

Not Just Either/Or: Discrete And Continuous Models Play Nicely Together In A Model Of Hospital Infection, Lester Caudill, Barry Lawson

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


A Mathematical Model Of The Inflammatory Response To Pathogen Challenge, Lester Caudill, Fiona Lynch Oct 2018

A Mathematical Model Of The Inflammatory Response To Pathogen Challenge, Lester Caudill, Fiona Lynch

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Introducing The Fractional Differentiation For Clinical Data-Justified Prostate Cancer Modelling Under Iad Therapy, Ozlem Ozturk Mizrak Oct 2018

Introducing The Fractional Differentiation For Clinical Data-Justified Prostate Cancer Modelling Under Iad Therapy, Ozlem Ozturk Mizrak

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.


Cheating The Cheaters: Spatial Dynamics In The Evolutionary Stability Of Antibiotic Resistance, Devin Akman Oct 2017

Cheating The Cheaters: Spatial Dynamics In The Evolutionary Stability Of Antibiotic Resistance, Devin Akman

Annual Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology Education and Research

No abstract provided.