Thursday, February 12, 2026
10:00 AM US Eastern
Liesbet Geris (VPH) and Maria Abou Chakra (VHD) “Discuss interpretable models and AI”

Liesbet Geris (Virtual Physiological Human Institute, VPH) and 
Maria Abou Chakra (Virtual Human Development Consortium, VHD):

Thursday, February 5, 2026
10:00 AM US Eastern
Emilia Luca, Sunnybrook Research Institute, “The utricle: a microcosm of human balance”

The human utricle is a vestibular sensory organ required for balance, a function that declines with age and currently lacks regenerative treatments.

Thursday, January 22, 2026
10:00 AM US Eastern
Open Discussion: Lessons Learned from Modeling COVID-19: Steps to Take at the Start of the Next Pandemic

IMAG/MSM WG Multiscale Modeling and Viral Pandemics & GLIMPRINT Seminar

January 22, 2026 at 10 AM (EST) 

Thursday, December 11, 2025
10:00 AM US Eastern
Job Berkhout, Utrecht Univ. “Towards a Virtual Embryo: computational modeling of neural tube closure defects”

Neural tube closure is a critical morphogenetic event occurring early in development, between gestational days 23 and 30 in humans.

Thursday, November 13, 2025
Noon (US eastern)
Shihao Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology “Big-data infectious disease estimation: From flu to covid-19”

For epidemics control and prevention, timely insights of potential hot spots are invaluable.

Thursday, November 6, 2025
10:00 AM US Eastern
Nadeem Akhtar, University of Edinburgh “Mathematical Modeling of Beta Cell Turnover Reveals Non-Trivial Contributions of Apoptosis to Pancreas Development”

Organ development is a fundamental process orchestrated by a balanced rate of proliferation and apoptosis.

Thursday, October 30, 2025
10:00 AM US Eastern
Emanuele Scacchi, University of Tübingen, Germany “Mobile Small RNAs and Turing Patterns: Coordinating Leaf Polarity and Shape Diversity”

Emanuele Scacchi, University of Tübingen, Germany
“Mobile Small RNAs and Turing Patterns: Coordinating Leaf Polarity and Shape Diversity”

Thursday, October 2, 2025
11:00 AM US Eastern
James Sharpe, EMBL Barcelona. Organogenesis: Building a complete multiscale model of limb development

James Sharpe, EMBL Barcelona. 
Organogenesis: Building a complete multiscale model of limb development

Thursday, September 18, 2025
10:00 AM US Eastern
Nazanin Ahmadi, Brown University. From PINNs to PIKANs: Physics-Informed AI for Systems Biology and Pharmacology

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have opened exciting avenues for integrating mechanistic modeling with data-driven learning.

Thursday, September 4, 2025 - Friday, September 5, 2025
10:00 AM US Eastern
Malvina Marku, Toulouse University Cancer Institute. Multi-scale computational modelling of tumour-immune interactions: from data-driven approaches to dynamical systems.

Understanding the regulatory mechanisms governing tumour-immune interactions is crucial for advancing targeted therapies in cancer.