The Extracellular Matrix: How to model structure complexity

Organizers

• Cicely Macnamara (University of Glasgow)
• Lisanne Rens (Delft University of Technology)
• Robyn Shuttleworth (Altos Labs)

The extracellular environment being essentially everything that is not cells is universal across biology and, specifically for this workshop, within the human body. It is a key contributor to many human biological processes, for example, embryonic development and cancer cell invasion. It is, however, a highly complex structure which can be difficult to describe within a mathematical model.

This workshop will introduce the extracellular matrix (ECM) as a mathematical structure, within which specific components such as matrix fibres can be modelled explicitly, in contrast to the traditional approach in which the ECM is described by a density or continuum.

More information about the workshop can be found on the website of CECAM.

This workshop is the winner of the CECAM-Lorentz call 2022.