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2023-02-16. VCell collaborator Padmini Rangamani from University of California San Diego published a manuscript where a computational model of a mechanisms underlying divergent relationships between Ca2+ and YAP/TAZ signallingin was designed in VCell. The created system of ODEs was exported into MatLab for further simulations and processing.The model predicts context-dependent Ca2+ transient, CaMKII bistable response and frequency-dependent activation of LATS1/2 upstream regulators as mechanisms governing the Ca2+ -YAP/TAZ relationship.
Khalilimeybodi, A., Fraley, S. I., & Rangamani, […]

2023-02-13. The 24th Annual Computational Cell Biology workshop was sponsored by Cell Analysis and Modeling Center at the UConn Health on February 13-15th. It was an intense online event designed to enable cell biologists and biphysicists to develop mathematical models of their experimental systems.Keynote speakers included Jason Haugh, Pablo Iglesias and Ursula Kummer.

2022-09-28.VCell and COPASI were used together to study the kinetic behavior of antibiotic biosynthesis. The paper describes the same model designed in both COPASI (for parameter estimations) and VCell (for simulation reaction curves). Find links to the paper on our published models page.

2022-09-12. The VCell team will give a tutorial at the 21st International Conference on Systems Biology – the premier meeting on systems studies in biology, human evolution disease and planetary health. The meeting will take place in Berlin, Germany on October 8th-12th. The tutorial will be on October 9th at 12:30pm local time (https://www.icsb2022.berlin/satellite-events).

2022-06-18. VCell collaborator Aurélie Carlier from Maastricht University published a manuscript on computational investigation of the dynamic control of cAMP signaling by PDE4 isoform types. The authors demonstrated that cAMP signaling is distinctly regulated by different PDE4 isoform types andthat this isoform-specificity should be considered in both computational and experimental follow-up studies to better define PDE4 enzymes as therapeutic targets in diseases in which cAMP signaling is aberrant.
Paes, D., Hermans, S., van den Hove, D., Vanmierlo, […]

2022-05-25. The 23rd Computational Cell Biology workshop took place at R. D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling (CCAM) on May 23-25th. For 3 days more than 40 online participants learnt how to use VCell, COPASI and SpringSalad software tools for modeling of cell biology systems. 16 participants participated in the “project track”, working individually with CCAM staff on developing their modeling projects.

2022-04-14. A new compartmental VCell Model was used to explore nutrients transporter network in plants. Find links to the paper and BioModel on our published models page.

2022-02-10. VCell was used to analyze structure of a B12-dependent radical SAM enzyme in carbapenem biosynthesis in a new Nature paper (available on our published models page).

2021-12-8. A discussion of how to use a VCell MathModel to teach mathematical modeling in cellular systems has been published by the Carlier lab with contributions from Cowan and Loew. Find links to the paper and public VCell models on our published models page.