Personnel : Department of Mathematics and Statistics : University of Melbourne

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Professor Kerry LANDMAN
Position:	Professor
Email:	K.Landman@ms.unimelb.edu.au
Room:	G25
Ext. Number:	46762
Webpage:	www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~kal
Research Group:	- Applied Mathematics
Interests:	- Continuum Modelling - Mathematical Biology - Mathematics in industry - Tissue engineering
Recent Publications: Selected Publications \| Publications RSS Feed Multi-species simple exclusion processes(2009) more Cell lineage tree models of neurogenesis(2009) more Cell migration and proliferation during monolayer formation and wound healing (2009) more Distinguishing between directed and undirected cell motility within an invading cell population(2009) more A travelling wave model for invasion by precursor and differentiated cells(2009) more
I am an applied mathematician committed to cross-disciplinary research. I have applied my mathematical modelling expertise to industrial, environmental and biological problems. I like the challenge of working with people from other disciplines. In the area of mathematical biology, my interest is in the mechanistic understanding of the various phenomena in biology - this extends from a cellular level, or groups of cells, such as multi-cell spheroids, towards a tissue level. One of the great scientific challenges is to understand the mechanisms of cell migration and cell-cell interactions. Mathematical modelling can provide testable hypotheses for experiments and resolve counter-intuitive results. One of my current projects is in collaboration with embryologists. It focuses on mathematically modelling the development of the nervous system in the gut, and involves cell migration on an underlying growing tissue. Another project is in the field of tissue engineering, modelling vascularisation and cell migration within an engineered scaffold. I am member of an ARC Special Research Centre with Chemical Engineering and Chemistry - Particulate Fluids Processing Centre (PFPC) . We have developed models for consolidation and filtration of suspensions to improve mineral processing. I have worked on all sorts of things e.g. changes in red blood cell shapes, tumour growth, transport of radon gas into houses, drying of porous materials like bricks, windscreen wiper design, and the cooking of cereal grains for breakfast cereal manufacture. For several years, I was the Director of the Mathematics-in-Industry Study Group (MISG). Much of my time was spent marketing and communicating the power and versatility of mathematics to business and industry and the wider community. Each year, eight industrial projects were presented at a problem-solving workshop, with lively brainstorming sessions between 150 mathematicians and students and industry representatives.

Current Postgraduate Supervision:

James CAFFREY	"Mathematical modelling of the interaction of cells with biomaterials"
Rebecca CHISHOLM	"Onychophora Development Model"
Daniel MENTIPLAY	"Mathematical Modelling of Biological Systems"

Past Postgraduate Supervision:

Anna Q CAI	"Mathematical modelling of cell populations in experimental systems: migration, proliferation and differentiation"
Stephen GILMORE	"Mathematical approaches to the problem of pattern formation in dermatology: unifying hypothesis"
Jennifer L SLATER	"Growing network models with an application to neurogenesis"
Amy SULLIVAN	"Chemical signals in interneuron migration: modelling repulsion and inhibition"
Abbey J TREWENACK	"Modelling interacting populations"

Recent Honours Students:

Bruce RIDING	"Plant Spread from a Single Source"
Kaushik BHAGANAGARAPU	"Modelling interacting cell populations"
Rebecca CHISHOLM	"Cell Proliferation in a Scaffold"
Daniel MENTIPLAY	"T Cell Development in the Thymus Modelling Cell Migration"

Recent Grant History:

Year(s)	Source	Type	Title
2008 - 2012	ARC	Discovery	Mathematical modelling in developmental biology
2006 - 2009	ARC	Discovery	Multi-scale modeling of cell migration in developmental biology
2007 - 2009	NHRMC	NHMRC Project	Biomathematical analysis of cell invasion: migration of neural crest cells to form the enteric nervous system
2005 - 2007	ARC	Discovery	Mastering Microenvironment - Integrated, functional, biosynthetic scaffolds for tissue engineering
2005 - 2007	ARC	Special Research Centre	SRC Particulate Fluids Processing Centre
2003 - 2005	NHRMC	NHMRC Project	Biological and mathematical studies of development of the enteric nervous system

Responsibilities:

Academic Board member

Continuum Modelling Seminar Coordinator

Faculty of Engineering Academic Probation and Confirmation Panel member

Faculty of Science Promotion Panel member for Level A-B

Committees:

Management Committee

Strategic Planning Committee

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