Overview
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Laboratory-based measures of proliferative and migratory potential in small populations of cells are a critically important tool in quantifying the efficacy of novel wound healing treatments.
This project will develop hybrid mathematical models incorporating both individual based cellular models with continuum descriptions of the population as a whole. In so doing, a deeper theoretical realisation of the manner in which confounding effects of contact inhibition or substrate activation can have on chemotactic or haptotactic cell migration will be achieved, potentially introducing revised assay protocols of greater accuracy while also indicating future directions for research into wound healing fundamentals. Solution methods and modelling strategies can be adapted in this project to permit significant co-supervision roles with other members of the Discipline of Mathematical Sciences.
- Study level
- Honours
- Supervisors
- QUT
- Organisational unit
Science and Engineering Faculty
- Research area
- Contact
- Please contact the supervisor.
Professor Graeme Pettet
