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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

Some great talks today on the first full day of #ISEEC2026 #CancerEvolution, many of them from my Moffitt colleagues talking about cancer ecology and evolution during treatment

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

Some shots from #MoffittScientificSymposium 2026 including our CEO Dr. Patrick Hwu and posters from Julia Pelesko and Matt Froid. It was a good day

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2026

#NoKings #rally today in the small town of Temple Terrace just north of Tampa

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/01/2026

Talking to friends and family in Europe. In the meantime in Florida....

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/12/2025

PhD students from @math.onco presenting their rotation projects and I am amazed about how much a smart person can do in such a short period of time! Featuring Julia Pelesko, Andree Kolliegbo and Cole Saborio

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

Our own Tatiana Miti describing work where an agent-based model captures metastatic dynamics in TNBC and the resulting emerging behaviour shows how tumor cells self-organize to drive the metastasis

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

Moffitt's #CSBC center represented by @sandy where he talks about #MathOnco models driving phase i trials to accelerate and enhance how clinical trials are done

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025

Another year another #NCI #CSBC (Cancer Systems Biology Consortium) annual meeting

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

Final #MathOnco keynote at #SMB2025 @smbmathbiology.bsky.social with Mohit K. Jolly taling about Epithelial to Messenchymal Plasticity (EMP). Great talk and of great importance not just for #metastasis (the context in which it is usually studied) but also #treatmentResistance

Metastasis:responsible for most of cancer deaths

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

Riley Manning (now at @math.onco) showing her work at University of Minnesota modeling tumor-immune interactions in glioblastoma and how computational models #MathOnco can help us explore how different aspects of these interactions can explain different […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2025

Plenary this morning @smbmathbiology.bsky.social by Mary Myerscough (U of Sydney) modeling atherosclerotic plaques. Included a great slide showing why #MathModeling. The process of formulating models is key (even if it not always leads to a publication). #SMB2025

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2025

Today's @smbmathbiology.bsky.social business meeting. Giving Jane Heferman a heartwarming farewell and she passes on the reins to inciming prsident Reinhard Laubenbacher #SMB2025 Also...shoutout to the #BiologyInNumbers podcast by @pbiwan

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2025

Entertaining and insightful talk @smbmathbiology.bsky.social by Tom Yankeelov including an impassionate defense of mechanistic modeling that incorporate biology. Fully agree with his take #SMB2025

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2025

Excellent minisymposium at #SMB2025 @smbmathbiology.bsky.social on using imaging to parameterize agent-based models in #mathonco. One of the speakers my colleague Kasia Rejniak describing a powerful approach to use histology in modeling #immunotherapy

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2025

Great plenary for this morning at @smbmathbiology.bsky.social by former SMB president and legendary #mathbio person Fred Adler. Burocracy as the way our body tries to stop cancer #SMB2025

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2025

Yesterday's @smbmathbiology.bsky.social #mathonco minisymp with @math.onco 's chair and friend @sandy presenting models that capture patient data and help us to understand how to improve treatment schedules in a clinically translatable way #SMB2025

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2025

Excellent seminar by Jake Scott highlighting the importance of time scales to understand the distinct but interplaying roles of ecology and evolution in cancer. Also for remembering the importance of Дiversity, Еquity and Иnclusion

Jake and slide with simulation showing resistance

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2025

What a day: my first Moffitt/USF PhD student, Dr. Gosia Weh, defending her work on mutations and cancer from a #theoreticalBiology perspective. Congrats Gosia, well deserved!

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/05/2025

#ScientificSymposium today at #Moffitt Cancer Center with plenty of @math.onco posters including one from our own Matt Froid with our collaborator @conorlynch on #MultipleMyeloma. Liking that 70s style Matt!

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2025

Some action photos from the #StandUpForScience in Tampa this afternoon near the #Moffitt campus including some of your favorite @math.onco people

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2025

Are you interested in joining the only mathematical oncology department @math.onco in a cancer center (Moffitt Cancer Center) in the world? We have an open rank position (assistant/associate/full) available now! Apply here […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2025

A fun part of having a #rotation PhD candidate named Emilie that comes from Paris is that the puns just write themselves #EmilyInParis

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/01/2025

Today's seminar features #UniversityofFlorida and NAS member Bob Holt talking about evolutionary rescue and ideas of how it could apply to #cancer. His work emphasizes the importance of both overall population growth and birth/death dynamics

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2025

Today's @math.onco seminar featuring Gosia Weh: The only constant is change. A tour de force investigating the differential impact of #mutations depending on the relative position of the #population on the #adaptivelandscape If you could not be here, here's […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/12/2024

George #Orwell taught in a school in Hayes, while he didn't think much of the town, the former school (now a fancy hotel) does remember Orwell

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2024

Excellent seminar at Moffitt's @mathonco by Gustavo França (working with Itai Yanay ) to explain how cell state and plasticity can explain the emergence of resistance in cancer. Experimental data only but would make for an excellent #MathOnco collab

Genetic driven resistance vs plasticity driven resistance

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2024

One aspect I really liked was the idea that rather than new drugs, it is important to use the ones we have better. As an example in pediatric ALL, survival went up from 11% to 77% based on how treatment was delivered rather than by the application of new treatments

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David Basanta Gutierrez @david.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2024

Helen Moore (UFlorida) presenting today at Moffitt Cancer Center with a seminar entitled:"Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Understanding Melanoma-Immune Dynamics"

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