When:
Friday, September 19, 2014
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM CT
Where: 676 N. St. Clair Street, Suite 1300, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Melissa Vazquez
(312) 695-6277
Group: Department of Neurological Surgery
Category: Academic
TITLE: A computational modelling approach for deriving biomarkers for cancer risk in premalignant disease
PRESENTER: ALEXANDER FLETCHER, D.PHIL. RESEARCH FELLOW WOLFSON CENTRE FOR MATHEMATICAL BIOLOGY OXFORD, UNIVERSITY, OXFORD U.K.
Alex has held a Research Fellowship in Computational Science associated with the 2020 Science project, a collaborative research programmebased at the University of Oxford, University College London and Microsoft Research, Cambridge since 2011. Dr. Fletcher is a member of the WolfsonCentre for Mathematical Biology (WCMB) at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford and a stipendiary lecturer at St Hugh's College, Oxford. The main focus of his research is to advance the application of, and mathematics underlying, models of epithelial tissues in development, health and disease. Alex is active on social media, follow him on Twitter at @AlexGFletcher.