QLS guest seminar - Monday 9 October

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

*QLS  guest seminar  - Monday 9  October *
**at  14:30* *ICTP, Central Area, 2nd floor, old SISSA building, Via Beirut*
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Title: Modeling vascular tumors

Speaker: Thierry Fredrich -  Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, 
Germany

Abstract:
Tumors appear in various types and affect a huge variety of functional 
aspects. We focus on the stage when the cluster of cancerous cells 
becomes larger than the average diffusion length of the required 
nutrients. At this point the tumor starts to modify the surrounding 
vascular structure of healthy tissue which is a complex and not yet 
understood process. Since the changes in topology and spatial 
arrangement of blood vessels and capillaries affect the distribution of 
interstitial fluid, oxygen, etc. this process is of special interest in 
order to understand cancer at malignant scales.

We use computer simulations to design artificial blood vessel networks 
followed by modeling vascular tumor growth. During this talk I will give 
you a brief overview of our model.



Everyone interested is most welcome to attend!

-- 
Erica Sarnataro
Group Secretary
Quantitative Life Sciences
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Trieste,  Italy
Tel. +39-040-2240623
www.ictp.it/research/qls.aspx
e-mail:qls at ictp.it