Agent-based modelling to simulate cell- and multiscale problems in biology - Minisymposium at ECCOMAS 2024

Our Technical Coordinator, Vasileios Vavourakis, and our Spokesperson, Roman Bauer, together with Mariam-Eleni Oraiopoulou, Arnau Montagud, Marco Manca, and Alfonso Caiazzo, are the organizers of the minisymposium "agent-based modelling to simulate cell- and multiscale problems in biology", at ECCOMAS, 3rd-7th June 2024, in Lisbon (Portugal).


The purpose of this minisymposium is to act as a forum for investigators to present the state of the art in ABM in biology and life sciences, with a focus on pathophysiology of chronic (e.g., neuro-developmental and neurodegenerative disorders, cancer, diabetes, chronic inflammation) and communicable diseases (viral infections, parasitic disorders, etc.). Together, we aim to foster the exchange of knowledge and ideas across multiple disciplines: mathematics, physics, computer science, engineering, biology, medicine.

We welcome contributions addressing challenges related to mathematical and computational modelling using ABM with particular emphasis in:

• cross-scale (from organ to tissue, cell, protein and molecular level) ABM simulations;

• challenges in numerical techniques –including high-performance computing procedures– for single scale or/and multiscale agent-based models;

• benchmarking and calibration of ABM in problems related to systems biology;

• simulations that integrate in vitro and/or in vivo laboratory experiments for ABM initialization, parametrization and/or validation;

• prognostic ABM in drug delivery, nanomedicine, immunotherapy, and radiation treatment, with special focus on optimisation of trials and in vivo/ex vivo models substitution/complementarity.


Abstracts submission is now open!! 

Abstracts must be submitted electronically via the conference website. Below are a few important dates you might want to save on your calendar:

  • January 15, 2024: Deadline for presenting a one page abstract
  • March 18, 2024: Deadline for speaker registration
Please do not hesitate to get in touch with the ECCOMAS 2024 Secretariat for any question concerning submission.

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