报告地点：行健楼学术活动室665
邀请人：万辉 教授
摘要：One of the most important and challenging questions in immunology and cancer research is to understand how the immune system affects cancer development and progression. On one hand recent data on both mice and humans with cancer suggest that innate and adaptive immune cell types, effector molecules, and pathways can suppress tumor growth by destroying cancer cells or inhibiting their outgrowth. On the other hand, the immune system can also promote tumor progression either by selecting tumor cells that are more fit to survive in an immunocompetent host or by establishing conditions within the tumor microenvironment that facilitate tumor outgrowth. These dual host-protective and tumor-promoting actions of immunity make the study of tumor/immune system interactions difficult, challenging and interesting. The purpose of this talk is to introduce some simple tumor/immune system interaction models and present results on the nonlinear dynamics of such models.
报告人简介：
阮士贵，国家高层次人才获得者。1992年在加拿大阿尔伯塔大学数学系获得博士学位，1992-1994年在加拿大菲尔兹数学所和麦克马斯特大学做博士后。1994-2002年在加拿大道尔豪斯大学数学与统计系先后任助理教授和副教授，现为美国迈阿密大学数学系终身教授。主要研究领域是动力系统和微分方程及其在生物和医学中的应用。在包括《PNAS》、Lancet Infect. Dis.、Memoirs Amer Math Soc.、Trans Amer. Math Soc.、J. Funct Anal.、J Math Pures Appl、Math Ann等学术期刊发表200多篇学术论文，受到国内外同行的大量关注和引用，2014和2015年连续被汤森路透集团列为全球高倍引科学家。担任一些重要期刊如BMC Infectious Disease、BMB（高级编委）、JMB、MB编委，是MBE的主编（数学）。作为负责人多次获得美国国家卫生研究院（NIH）、美国国家科学基金（NSF）、国家自然科学基金资助。
