Measures and Representations of Interactions

Workshop theme

The study of interactions among living entities covers broad scientific domains, ranging from molecules and cells through individual organisms and groups to species, populations and communities. Common to all domains is the need to quantify the presumed interactions at the relevant spatial and temporal scales. While no formal theory exists in the literature, there exist different approaches that aim to construct a mechanistic representation of how individuals interact with each other as well as how to measure such interactions, but in most cases such approaches are specific to the problem at hand. The common factor among the existing approaches is their intention to represent the sequential nature of how organisms interact, first acquiring information from their surroundings, then processing that information and subsequently selecting a movement response.

It is this interaction cascade, often challenging to measure and analyse in biotic interactions, that has been the target of model development across disciplines and research areas from predators foraging on prey and pathogen spread in animal ecology to wound healing and cancer growth in cell biology. The modelling efforts distinguish themselves based on the spatial and temporal scale, from those representing pair-wise interaction events at the microscopic scales, to those at a coarser level of description describing an entire population macroscopically. Models may also differ in the tools employed to represent interactions, ranging from the use of an interaction potential that is smooth and well defined at every point in space, to the weighting of the links of an interaction network. As these and other tools and techniques have their pros and cons, it is invaluable to identify their strengths and limitations in light of the tremendous advances in recent tracking and sensor technologies.

By cross-fertilising different ideas and techniques in animal ecology and cell biology we aim to gain a more realistic perspective on measurement and representation of organism interactions, revisiting existing concepts, and permitting new discoveries and insights.

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Fees

Registration Only

Registration Package: £ 243
Student Registration Package: £ 193

The Registration Package includes admission to all seminars, lunches and refreshments on the days that lectures take place (Monday - Friday), wine reception and formal dinner, but does not include other meals or accommodation.

Formal Dinner Only

Formal Dinner: £ 60

Participants on the Accommodation Package or Registration Package, including organisers and speakers, are automatically included in this event. For all remaining participants who would like to attend, such as programme participants, the above charge will apply.

Accommodation

Unfortunately we do not have any accommodation to offer so all successful applicants will need to source their own accommodation.

Please see the Hotels Combined website for a list of local hotels and guesthouses.

Meals

Lunch

Lunch timings and location will be confirmed with timetable.

Evening Meal

Participants are free to make their own arrangements for dinner.

Formal Dinner

The Formal Dinner will be held at Churchill College on Wednesday 13th September at 19:30.

The event is a tradition for INI participants and gives you a chance to socialise with your colleagues on a more personal level. It is not one to miss!

Participants on the Accommodation Package or Registration Package, including organisers and speakers, are automatically included in this event.

Timetable

Monday 11th September 2023
09:15 to 09:50	Registration	No Room Required
09:50 to 10:00	Ulrike Tillmann Isaac Newton Institute; University of Cambridge Welcome talk	Room 1
10:00 to 10:45	Sujit Datta Princeton University Sticking together: How bacterial collectives (re)shape themselves	Room 1
10:45 to 11:15	Morning coffee	No Room Required
11:15 to 12:00	Ran Nathan Hebrew University of Jerusalem The movement ecology approach and its application to study various types of interactions	Room 1
12:00 to 13:30	Lunch	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:15	Carles Falco University of Oxford Dynamics of growth, collision, and cell division in epithelial monolayers	Room 1
14:15 to 15:00	Christen Fleming University of Central Florida Continuous-time encounter measures and their estimation	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Afternoon tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:15	Simon Benhamou CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique) Interactions between home-ranging animals	Room 1
16:15 to 17:00	Zuzanna Szymańska University of Warsaw Bayesian inference of a non-local proliferation model	Room 1
17:00 to 18:00	Poster session and welcome wine reception	Discussion Room

Tuesday 12th September 2023
09:15 to 10:00	Emily Shepard Swansea University High frequency movement data provides insight into animal interactions	Room 1
10:00 to 10:45	Jonathan Friedman Hebrew University of Jerusalem Predicting microbial interactions	Room 1
10:45 to 11:15	Morning coffee and group photo	No Room Required
11:15 to 12:00	Matthew Simpson Queensland University of Technology Profile likelihood analysis for a stochastic model of diffusion in heterogeneous media	Room 1
12:00 to 13:30	Lunch	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:15	Ohad Vilk Hebrew University of Jerusalem Phase transition in a non-Markovian animal exploration model with preferential returns	Room 1
14:15 to 15:00	Orr Spiegel Tel Aviv University Extracting more from biotelemetry data: inferring social Interactions and their nature from spatial proximity	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Afternoon tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 16:15	Christine Beardsworth Liverpool John Moores University From mazes to meadows: understanding movement through spatial cognition	Room 1
16:15 to 16:35	Cleo Conacher Stellenbosch University Understanding biotic interactions in the wine yeast community	Room 1
16:35 to 16:55	Thejasvi Ravindra Beleyur Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior; Universität Konstanz The collective behaviour of active sensing groups - questions and challenges	Room 1

Wednesday 13th September 2023
09:15 to 10:00	Michael Assaf Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ergodicity Breaking in Area-Restricted Search of Avian Predators	Room 1
10:00 to 10:45	Sara Bernardi Politecnico di Torino Modelling leader-follower interactions in collective movement	Room 1
10:45 to 11:15	Morning coffee	No Room Required
11:15 to 12:00	Jose A Carrillo University of Oxford Cell-cell Adhesion micro-and macroscopic models via Aggregation-Diffusion systems	Room 1
12:00 to 13:30	Lunch	Room 1
19:30 to 22:00	Formal dinner at Churchill College	No Room Required

Thursday 14th September 2023
09:15 to 10:00	Maria Bruna University of Cambridge Continuum models of strongly interacting Brownian particles	Room 1
10:00 to 10:45	Denis Boyer Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) Weighted social network model of homophilic behaviour in primate groups	Room 1
10:45 to 11:15	Morning coffee	No Room Required
11:15 to 12:00	Simon Martina Perez University of Oxford Bayesian discovery of mechanics and signaling during collective cell migration	Room 1
12:00 to 13:30	Lunch	No Room Required
13:30 to 14:15	Bill Fagan University of Maryland, College Park Perception and Species Interactions	Room 1
14:15 to 15:00	Helen Byrne University of Oxford Understanding and quantifying different types of collective cell movement	Room 1
15:00 to 15:30	Afternoon tea	No Room Required
15:30 to 15:50	Annachiara Colombi Politecnico di Torino Non-local (integro)-differential models for living agents’ dynamics	Room 1
15:50 to 16:10	Seeralan Sarvaharman University of Bristol Agent-environment interactions in arbitrary dimensions: a unifying analytic framework to model diffusion with inert spatial heterogeneities	Room 1
16:30 to 17:30	Wine reception at the INI	No Room Required
16:30 to 17:30	ECR session	Room 1

Friday 15th September 2023
09:00 to 09:45	Alexandria Volkening Purdue University Cell-based modeling and topological techniques for biological pattern formation	Room 1
09:45 to 10:30	Vivienne Leech University College London Understanding cell alignment: from two interacting cells to collective behaviour	Room 1
10:30 to 11:00	Morning coffee	No Room Required
11:00 to 11:20	Juan Manuel Morales University of Glasgow A joint species modelling approach to understand animal-plant interactions	Room 1
11:20 to 12:05	Florian Jeltsch Universität Potsdam Scaling up from individual interactions to biodiversity dynamics	Room 1
12:05 to 13:30	Lunch	No Room Required

Mathematics of movement: an interdisciplinary approach to mutual challenges in animal ecology and cell biology

Measures and Representations of Interactions

Organisers

Michael Assaf Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ruth Baker
Ran Nathan Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Speakers

Michael Assaf Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Christine Beardsworth Liverpool John Moores University
Thejasvi Ravindra Beleyur Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior; Universität Konstanz
Simon Benhamou CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
Denis Boyer Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
Maria Bruna University of Cambridge
Helen Byrne University of Oxford
Annachiara Colombi Politecnico di Torino
Cleo Conacher Stellenbosch University
Sujit Datta Princeton University
Bill Fagan University of Maryland, College Park
Carles Falco University of Oxford
Christen Fleming University of Central Florida
Jonathan Friedman Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Florian Jeltsch Universität Potsdam
Vivienne Leech University College London
Simon Martina Perez University of Oxford
Juan Manuel Morales University of Glasgow
Ran Nathan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Seeralan Sarvaharman University of Bristol
Emily Shepard Swansea University
Matthew Simpson Queensland University of Technology
Orr Spiegel Tel Aviv University
Zuzanna Szymańska University of Warsaw
Ohad Vilk Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Alexandria Volkening Purdue University

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Participants

Guillermo Abramson Instituto Balseiro; Centro atomico bariloche
Tomas Alarcon Centre de Recerca Matematica (CRM); ICREA and Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Ruth Baker University of Oxford
Frederic Bartumeus Centre for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CSIC-CEAB)
Christine Beardsworth Liverpool John Moores University
Thejasvi Ravindra Beleyur Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior; Universität Konstanz
Simon Benhamou CNRS (Centre national de la recherche scientifique)
Sara Bernardi Politecnico di Torino
Sree Rama Vara Prasad Bhuvanagiri Vellore Institute of Technology VIT University
Luca Borger Swansea University
Denis Boyer Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)
Maria Bruna University of Cambridge
Kevin Burrage Queensland University of Technology
Helen Byrne University of Oxford
Francesca Cagnacci None / Other; University of Trento
Justin Calabrese Helmholtz Zentrum Dresden Rossendorf (HZDR)
Daniel Campos Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Jose A Carrillo University of Oxford
Edward Codling University of Essex
Annachiara Colombi Politecnico di Torino
Cleo Conacher Stellenbosch University
Rebecca Crossley University of Oxford
Sujit Datta Princeton University
Bill Fagan University of Maryland, College Park
Carles Falco University of Oxford
Francis Felici None / Other
Christen Fleming University of Central Florida
Jonathan Friedman Hebrew University of Jerusalem
John Fryxell University of Guelph
Kit Gallagher University of Oxford
Luca Giuggioli University of Bristol
Kishore Hari Indian Institute of Science
Florian Jeltsch Universität Potsdam
Yi Jiang Georgia State University
Toby Kay University of Bristol
Laila Kazimierski Centro atomico bariloche
John King University of Nottingham
Paul Kulesa Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Siddhartha Kundu All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
Philip Kurian Quantum Biology Laboratory
Karina Laneri Centro atomico bariloche
Vivienne Leech University College London
Sarah A.M. Loos University of Cambridge
Philip K Maini University of Oxford
Daniel Marris University of Bristol
Simon Martina Perez University of Oxford
William Martinson University of Oxford
Md Mohiuddin Hokkaido University
Juan Manuel Morales University of Glasgow
Máté Nagy Eötvös Loránd University; Hungarian Academy of Science
Ran Nathan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hans Othmer University of Minnesota
Andrea Perna IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca; None / Other
Widodo Samyono Jarvis Christian University
Seeralan Sarvaharman University of Bristol
Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb University of Cambridge; Cambridge Mathematics of Information in Healthcare
Emily Shepard Swansea University
Ben Simons University of Cambridge
Matthew Simpson Queensland University of Technology
Orr Spiegel Tel Aviv University
Maximilian Strobl Case Western Reserve University
Zuzanna Szymańska University of Warsaw
Colin Torney University of Glasgow
Ohad Vilk Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Alexandria Volkening Purdue University
Yossi Yovel Tel Aviv University